Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon’s rhetoric into actual policy (7:04):
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Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time Soon (Video)
Posted: 30 September 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, National News, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, airstrikes, Boeing, drones, extrajudicial assassination, Israel, Ivan Eland, Lockheed MArtin, military industrial complex, military welfare, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Pentagon, Robert Gates, War on Terror, war spending
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How Do You Become a ‘Suspected Militant’?
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Sayyid in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, Bush Administration, CIA, drones, extrajudicial assassination, Iraq War, ISAF, Jason Ditz, libertarian, NATO, Newspeak, NWFP, Obama Administration, Pakistan, War on Terror, Warfare and Conflict, Zardari
Daily Briefing—21st Sept 2010
Posted: 21 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Abdu Rahman, ACLU, Af-Pak War, airstrikes, Andy Worthington, antiwar activism, arms trading, Brazil, C.J. Chivers, Carol Rosenberg, China, Chris Hedges, Dahr Jamail, Death Penalty, domestic surveillance, domestic terrorism, drones, electoral politics, Eric Garris, false flag operation, FBI, Federal Reserve, fiat money, FOREX, Glenn Greenwald, gold, Great Recesseion, Guantanamo Bay, Iran, Israel, Jason Ditz, Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Kyrgyzstan, Lockheed MArtin, Middle East, Middle East peace process, military industrial complex, NAM, Noah Shachtman, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, Paul O'Mahoney, Peace Now, Pittsburgh G-20 Summit, privacy rights, racism, Saudi Arabia, Scott Horton, settlement expansion, Sheldon Richman, Somalia, Stephen Walt, Sweden, Tom Engelhardt, UAE, Wall Street, war games, Warfare and Conflict, West Bank, William Fisher
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Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
Posted: 16 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Amnesty International, Andy Worthington, Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP, Ayman al-Zawahiri, bailout, Blackwater, Boeing, BP, copyright, drones, drug war, extrajudicial assassination, Gareth Porter, GE, general strike, global economic crisis, GOP, Greece, Gulf oil spill, India, intellectual property, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, JSOC, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, Khmer Rouge, Lehman Brothers, Matthew Cassel, Middle East peace process, military industrial complex, Myanmar, national debt, night raids, Pervez Musharraf, TARP, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, WTO, Xe, Yemen
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Daily Briefing—8th Sept 2010
Posted: 8 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, airport body scanners, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Aleksander Kwasniewski, AMISOM, banking, black sites, Blake Hounshell, BP, Bush tax cuts, Charles Hugh Smith, China, CIA, cognitive science, counterterrorism, credit unions, Deepwater Horizon, DR Congo, drones, drug war, experimental philosophy, extrajudicial assassination, for-profit universities, France, free press, Gareth Porter, general strike, gold, Goldman Sachs, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Hillary Clinton, IDF, IFEX, India, Iran, Iraq War, ISAF, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Joe Biden, Kabul Bank, Kandahar Surge, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, land grabbing, Lebanon, Liz Pulliam Weston, Macondo oil spill, Mahmood Karzai, Mexico, military industrial complex, missile defense, Mullah Omar, NATO, neoliberalism, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philosophy, Poland, PTSD, Robert Fisk, Rwanda, secret prisons, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Stephen Walt, student loans, Sudan, suicide bombings, Taiwan, Taliban, Transocean, TSA, Uganda, UN, Yemen
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Daily Briefing—6th Sept 2010
Posted: 6 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, Alcoholic beverage control states, ANSF, Avigdor Lieberman, DPRK, drones, drug war, election fraud, EU, general strike, housing crisis, ICC, IMF, India, infrastructure, Iran, Iraq, Islamophobia, Israel, Kabul Bank, Kashmir, Kenya, marijuana, Mexico, Mexico City, Middle East, NATO, NPT, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, NWFP, Obama, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Russ Wellen, settlement expansion, South Africa, suicide bombing, Taliabn, Taliban, UIDAI, US, Warfare and Conflict
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Daily Briefing—31st Aug 2010
Posted: 31 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: 1964 Civil Rights Act, ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, Ali Abunimah, anarchism, AntiWar radio, banking, biometrics, CCR, Charles johnson, China, Colorado, Cuba, David Brooks, DPRK, drones, espionage, Fidel Castro, Gareth Porter, George Soros, gold, gold audit, Ground Zero Mosque, Hamas, Haneen Zuabi, Hebron, India, Iran, Iraq War, Iraq withdrawal, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jesse Walker, JPMorgan Chase, Julian Assange, Kelley Vlahos, Kochtopus, Libertarian Party, Likudniks, Michael Corcoran, Middle East, Mohammad Bazzi, Mossad, Muqtada al-sadr, Netanyahu, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, Patrick Cockburn, Paul Wolfowitz, Philip Giraldi, police state, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, Rwanda genocide, Salam Fayyad, Scott Horton, Stefan Molyneux, Stephen Walt, Taliban, torture, Volcker Rule, Wall Street, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, William Fisher
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Daily Briefing—25th-26th Aug 2010
Posted: 26 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, biometrics, BP, CIA, Cordoba House, David Petraeus, drones, extrajudicial assassination, general strike, Ground Zero Mosque, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Hamid Karzai, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, Iraq War, Jack Hunter, Jeremy Scahill, JSOC, Mossad, NOLA, Pakistan, Park51, Ronald Bailey, SCOTUS, South Africa, Spencer Ackerman, Stephen Walt, Taliban, UN, Wal-Mart, whistleblowers, Wikileaks, Yemen
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Weekend Briefing—20th-22nd Aug 2010
Posted: 22 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Alexander Cockburn, Blackwater, BP, Bushehr, Colombia, Constanza Vieira, Daphne Eviatar, David Sirota, drones, economic crisis, general strike, George Donnelly, Gulf oil spill, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Iraq, Iraq election, Iraq War, Israel, Jason Ditz, Kenya, Lebanon, Middle East, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, peace process, public opinion, Scott Horton, Somalia, South Africa, Stephen Walt, tea party movement, TF 121, TF 373, TF 42, TSA, Wikipedia, Xe, Zionism
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Ameri-Paki-Talistan (Video)
Posted: 1 August 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, India-Pakistan; 26/11, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghan Taliban, Afghanistan, Afghanistan motherlode, Afghanistan War Logs, Ahmed Shah Massoud, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Asif Ali Zardari, Babrak Kamul, China, CIA, COIN, Cold War, counterinsurgency, democracy, drones, Durand Line, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hafizullah Amin, Hamid Gul, Hamid Karzani, Haqqani Network, history, Husain Haqqani, India, ISI, Islamic terrorism, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Kashmir, Leonid Brezhnev, Mullah Omar, North Waziristan, NY Times, Obama Administration, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pashtuns, Predator drones, Quetta Shura, realpolitik, Robert Gates, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Sistan-Baluchistan, Soviets, Taliban, terrorism, TTP, Wikileaks, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, the husband-wife couple behind Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story (2009) and Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire (2010), recently discussed the C.I.A connections with Afghan militant networks through Pakistani intelligence agencies with Paul Jay at The Real News Network.
Part One – WikiLeaks—The Pakistan Connection (13:15):
Little Alex in Wonderland 