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Transformative: Le Cinema de Michael Bay

William Bradley | Posted 07.30.2009 | Entertainment

The fact that it is considered preposterous for a writer to not dismiss Bay's work in the most vehement of terms points up a dramatic disconnect between the critical community and the movie-going audience.

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Supreme Court Will Not Hear 9/11 Victims Claims Vs. Saudi Arabia

AP | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Insurance Co. v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pentagon, President Barack Obama, Terrorism, 9/11, King Abdullah, Obama, Saudi Arabia, War on Terror, September 11, Terror, Al Qaeda, Supreme Court, World Trade Center, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue lawsuits against Saudi Arabia and four of its prin...

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Why It's Time for LGBT Democrats to Get Over Their Battered Wife Syndrome

Michael Rowe | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Lt. Col. Victor J. Fehrenbach, Gay Rights, Department of Defense, Glaad, Doma, Rick Warren, Dan Choi, Justice Department, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Defense of Marriage Act, Michael Jensen, Politics News

What if, instead of giving out a million dollar booty-call, the LGBT donors had suddenly crossed their collective political and economic legs, and told the DNC "No more freebies. Not without that ring."

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Got a Minute? Congressman McGovern and 80% of Afghans Need You

Tom Andrews | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Appropriations, Pentagon, Congress, Department of Defense, Jim McGovern, Afghanistan, Politics News

The question is why the leadership on both sides of the political aisle are so set against an amendment that does what the president himself has said is required in this war torn country.

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Its Official! Pentagon Cyber Command Gets Ready to "Stand Up"

Frida Berrigan | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Boeing, Pentagon, Cybersecurity, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Cyberwar, Politics News

It seems to me that the Pentagon, the administration and the military industrial complex are all treating cyberspace like any other battle domain.

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Congress Needs to Hear From Us Today on Afghanistan

Tom Andrews | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Congress, Military, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Appropriations, Democrats, Jim McGovern, Barack Obama, Politics News

This week Congress is set to authorize $550 billion in defense spending and, with it, an additional $130 billion to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghani...

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Will Congress Put Useless Fighter Jets Above America?

Jon Soltz | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: F-35-Lightning-Ii, Pentagon, Nuclear Waste, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Department of Defense, Robert Gates, President Obama, F-22 Raptor, F-22, Nuclear-Waste, Department of Energy, Defense Spending, Pentagon Budget, Defense Department, Barack Obama, Politics News

Congress is about to throw $369 million (on a down-payment of $2 billion) for a dozen F-22 fighter jets that even the Pentagon doesn't want.

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McChrystal Really Gets It... Now Has to Deliver

Sarah Holewinski | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Stanley McChrystal, Civilian Casualties, Civilian-War-Victims, Afghanistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News

The incoming US and Allied Forces Commander in Afghanistan has rightly put the "Afghan people" front and center.

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The Curious Incident of a US Extradition in the Night-Time

Denis Campbell | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Edward Fitzgerald, EU Court of HUman Rights, Nasa, Natwest 3, UK Extradition Act, David Blunkett, Sting, Ed Gibson, David GIlmour, Clark McClelland, Cyber Terrorism, Mark Haddon, Kevin Anderson, Gary McKinnon, Csn, Graham Nash, Pentagon, Dustin Hoffman, Aspergers-Syndrome, Dan Ackroyd, Peter Howson, The Guardian, UK House of Lords, Microsoft, Kaim Todner, The Rest of the Story, Rain Man, Federal Prosecutors, 7-7 Tube Bombings, Bush Administration, Karen Todner, Paul Harvey, War Games, Home Secretary, Scott Christie, Pink Floyd, UFO Obsession, Janis Sharp, Qc, World News

In many ways Gary's disease reveals an intellectually and emotionally na�ve child locked in a man's body. There his mind is both his biggest friend and greatest enemy.

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Afghan Civilian Casualties Threaten Airstrike Support For Troops: Pentagon

US News | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Obama Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Civilian Casualities, Foreign Affairs, Stanley McChrystal, Civilian Casualties, Defense Department, Advocacy, Afghanistan Civilian Casualties, Afghanistan War, World News

Rising anger over Afghan civilians accidentally killed in U.S. military bombing campaigns has prompted some U.S. officers to issue a stark warning to ...

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Pentagon: North Korea Missiles Could Threaten U.S.

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: North Korea, Kim Jong Il, North Korea Missile, Pentagon, Department of Defense, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn, William Lynn, John McCain, Senator John McCain, Politics News

WASHINGTON — North Korea's missiles could hit the United States in as few as three years if the reclusive rogue nation continues to ramp up its ...

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Pentagon Debates Whether To Squelch Report On Afghan Attack

McClatchy | Nancy A. Youssef | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Pentagon Investigation Into Air Strike, Air Strike Afghan Attack, Afghan Attack, Pentagon Report Release, World News

WASHINGTON -- Defense Department officials are debating whether to ignore an earlier promise and squelch the release of an investigation into a U.S. a...

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Pentagon Struggling To Explain Afghanistan Bombing Incident

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Civilian Deaths, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Taliban, Bombing, U.S. Army, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan Civilian Deaths, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is delaying release of its investigation into air strikes last month that killed dozens of civilians in Afghanist...

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Foreign Governments, Contractors Have Paid For Thousands Of Pentagon Trips Worth $26 Million

Center for Public Integrity | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Defense Contractors Paying for Trips, Military Trips, Pentagon Trips Controversy, Pentagon Trips, Politics News

When Department of Defense personnel travel, it's not always the federal government that picks up the bill. Over a 10-year period, defense employees h...

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Lieberman, Graham Threaten To Shut Down Senate Over Detainee Photos

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Interrogation Photos, Pentagon, Guantanamo Bay, Torture Photos, Detainee Photos, Joseph Lieberman, Detainee Photographs, Photo Records, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, Iraq, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) lambasted transparency advocates at a press conference Tuesday, when they renewed their p...

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Afghan War: Next 18 Months Is Crucial, Pentagon Says

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Afghanistan War, Obama Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Afghan Taliban, Surge in Afghanistan, Pentagon, War Wire, Taliban, Robert Gates, Stanley McChrystal, Barack Obama, World News

WASHINGTON — Steps taken over the next 18 months to defeat the Taliban and other extremists will ultimately decide whether the war in Afghanista...

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Where the People Lead, the Leaders Will Follow

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Gallup brings good news. Across the political spectrum, a growing majority of Americans favor allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the military.

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Words and War

Norman Solomon | Posted 07.08.2009 | World

Read More: Civilian Deaths, Air Strikes, Pentagon, Country Joe McDonald, War, Albert Camus, Afghanistan, Washington Post, Barack Obama, Warfare State, Iraq, World News

There's plenty more media invisibility and erasure ahead for Afghan people as the Pentagon ramps up its war effort in their country.

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Former Drug Dealers Tied To Murtha-Backed Firm

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Murtha, Pentagon, John Murtha Drug Dealers, Transparency, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Rep. John Murtha steered millions of dollars in defense work to a campaign donor and the Pentagon went along with it, even though t...

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The Internet and Voting: Worth Doing Right

Barbara Simons | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Internet, Internet-Fraud, Aviation, Electoral College, Voting Problems, Voting, Politics News

We should focus on improving our elections using innovations that build upon mature and well-understood technologies.

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The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit (VIDEO)

Wired.com | Posted 07.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Pentagon, Marc Weber Tobias, Lock-Picker, Lock-Picking Video, Tobias, Marc Tobias, Corporate Security, Ultimate Lock-Picker, Home News

Tobias is laughing. And laughing. The effect is disconcerting. It's a bwa-ha-ha kind of evil mastermind laugh--appropriate if you've just sacked Const...

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Memorial Day 2009 - A Look at Women in the Military

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics

Hopefully, in between the barbecues and the parades, our citizens will reflect on both the physical and emotional challenges that our service women have -- and continue -- to face.

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Progressive Ilan Goldenberg Hired By Pentagon To Advise On Mid-East Policy

FireDogLake | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Middle East, Colin Kahl, Department of Defense, Ian Goldberg, Politics News

Right as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finishes his first Washington encounter with the Obama administration, the administration is adding...

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Holy Crap: Donald Rumsfeld's Crusade Memos

Disgrasian | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Pentagon, US Military, Department of Defense, Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Holy Wars, Pentagon Propaganda, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Military, Donald Rumsfeld Crusade Memos, Religion and Politics, Crusades, Iraq, Separation of Church and State, Politics News

They used to put Scripture like this on t-shirts in my Southern Baptist youth group, to get us kids pumped about spending the first week of summer, the first taste of freedom...quietly studying the Bible.

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Rumsfeld was Bush's Rasputin

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Iraq War, Religion, Crusade Memos, Military, Robert Draper, Donald Rumsfeld Memos, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld, Donald Rumsfeld Iraq Memos, Donald Rumsfeld Crusade Memos, Gq, Politics News

Rumsfeld is a smart man, who is familiar with American history, so it wouldn't be fair to accuse him of a senior moment when that whole separation of church and state thing flew out of his head.

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