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On the Coming Fall of the American Empire

On the Coming Fall of the American Empire

Campaign for Liberty | By Daniel McCarthy | 23 July 2010 Bruce Fein's American Empire: Before the Fall is not for the faint of heart. "You, your family, your friends, your professional colleagues, and your elected and appointed officials in the nation's highest circles will fiercely resist the truths this book expounds," the author warns. He's [...]

German drone pilots eye Afghanistan… from Israel

German drone pilots eye Afghanistan… from Israel

CNBC | 27 July 2010 EIN SHEMER AIR BASE, Israel - As World War Two raged in the years before Israel's founding, colonial British planes were scrambled here to fend off German forces. Now the German Luftwaffe is back, preparing for a far more remote fight with the modern equipment and expertise of the Jewish state established after [...]

Persistent Engagement: The Obama Doctrine of Neo-Imperialism in Execution

Persistent Engagement: The Obama Doctrine of Neo-Imperialism in Execution

Special Warfare | May-June 2010 (Vol. 23, Issue 3) PERSISTENT ENGAGEMENT Civil Military Support Elements Operating in CENTCOM By Maj. Ross F. Lightsey, Sr. In ongoing irregular conflicts, the civil-military support element, or CMSE, is a unique resource that provides military commanders and United States ambassadors in various regions and [...]

Geopolitics, Nationalism and Dual Citizenship

Geopolitics, Nationalism and Dual Citizenship

Stratfor | By George Friedman | 20 July 2010 Geopolitics is central to STRATFOR’s methodology, providing the framework upon which we study the world. The foundation of geopolitics in our time is the study of the nation-state, and fundamental to this is the question of the relationship of the individual to the nation-state. Changes in the [...]

The Daniel Ellsberg Moment: Wikileaks Reveals War Crimes, Lies, and Cover-Up in the Af/Pak War

The Daniel Ellsberg Moment: Wikileaks Reveals War Crimes, Lies, and Cover-Up in the Af/Pak War

Wikileaks on Sunday published more than 90,000 documents, which cover a period from January 2004 to December 2009, containing classified information about the war in Afghanistan. Wikileaks posted the documents directly to its site, and provided them in advance to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Germany's Der Spiegel, all of which ran [...]

Pakistani spy agency denounces US intel docs

Pakistani spy agency denounces US intel docs

China Daily | 26 July 2010 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's most powerful spy agency on Monday lashed out against a trove of leaked US intelligence reports that alleged close connections between it and Taliban militants fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan, calling the accusations malicious and unsubstantiated. The reports, which were released [...]