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FM newswire for 19 December, hot articles for your morning reading
This is what I found interesting, so it’s today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with several sections of hot news. Lot’s happening in the world today, mostly either overlooked or misinter… more →
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FM newswire for 19 December, hot articles for your morning reading
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wrote 2 weeks ago: This is what I found interesting, so it’s today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with sev … more →
Today's source of blindingly great insights about our world, our time
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Posting will be erratic for the next 3 weeks, but the FM website team will endeavor to bring you rar … more →
FM newswire for 4 December, hot articles for your morning reading
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wrote 1 month ago: Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with 7 sections of hot news. Lot’s happenin … more →
Please put on every milk carton: America's political class is MIA
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wrote 1 month ago: Rome’s political class was liquidated during a generation of civil war. America’s has d … more →
Jo Comerford explains the Joys of Perpetual War
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wrote 2 months ago: Introduction by Tom Engelhardt If you want a picture of how Washington deals with American war-makin … more →
Tom explains what it costs to run for public office
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wrote 3 months ago: Today’s reading recommendatio: “Is Democracy Melting“, Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatc … more →
Juan Cole describes A Century of Frenzy over the North-West Frontier
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wrote 3 months ago: One great oddity of our wars is their architects lack of knowledge. Not about war, or COIN. But in … more →
About those large and growing Afghanistan security forces...
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wrote 3 months ago: Our war strategy in Afghanistan rests on two pillars: Building up a vastly larger, more skilled and … more →
We need not bow before our Emperior (yet)
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wrote 3 months ago: We don’t see the madness of our the descent in to Empire. The rest of the world does, however … more →
Steve Fraser compares Obama's Brainiacs and Roosevelt's Brain Trust
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wrote 3 months ago: With increasing dismay liberals watch the weak but steady rightward drift of the Obama Administratio … more →
Tom Engelhard asks "Is America is hooked on War?"
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wrote 3 months ago: Good question. I wish I knew the answer. This is one of the best articles to date by Englehardt, I … more →
A history lesson recommended for the top of your reading pile
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wrote 3 months ago: The various media bombard us with information, putting us in the position of a child with a thousand … more →
"Colonizing Iraq", by Michael Schwartz
wrote 5 months ago: Excerpt for today: “Colonizing Iraq — The Obama Doctrine?” By Michael Schwartz , … more →
The trinity of modern warfare at work in Afghanistan
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wrote 5 months ago: Clausewitz spoke of a trinity of the people, the government, and the military. The rise to dominanc … more →
Words important for all Americans to hear, from Tom Engelhardt
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wrote 7 months ago: Most commencement speeches are a bore. Few were as good as this one written for the students of the … more →
Why are we fighting in Pakistan?
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wrote 7 months ago: The Afghanistan War is absurd. Extending our wars into Pakistan is insane. For more moderate expre … more →
A Piracy SitRep
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wrote 7 months ago: Articles by two experts confirms most of the analysis of piracy presented on this site. They are ty … more →
"Questions to Ask in the Dead of Night"
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wrote 8 months ago: Another provocative article by Tom Engelhardt. If ever forced to choose between reading the daily p … more →
Three Cheers for Chip for Recognizing the Problem
wrote 8 months ago: Well, y’all, I have only one thing to say today, it is the most important thing I have ever sa … more →
