Category: Politics & Political Science
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Obama and The License to Kill US Citizens
I commented on this earlier this year, that the Obama administration had continued the Bush policy of allowing the killing of US citizens abroad who are allegedly associated with terrorist groups. Now this already distasteful scenario has gotten murkier as the Treasury Department has made it illegal to have lawyers represent these US citizens in…
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Some Links: Death of the State, IED Stats and the Reality of Afghanistan
Image via Wikipedia Dinosaurs Can’t Dance: The Impending Extinction of the Nation-State (by John Goekler): Here we have another look at the future of the nation-state, or in this case, that it has no future and “will go extinct over the next few decades“. He goes on to list several reasons as why he reaches…
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The Great COIN Toss
Counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan are not working, in fact, very little is and the country continues its record of being the ‘graveyard of empires’. Drones firing at will into Pakistan are further fanning the flames, for the 150 ‘leaders’ that have been killed (some only to return…) there have been over a 1,000 causalities, this…
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Comparison of the Costs of Major U.S. Wars
FAS brings our attention to a newly updated report from the Congressional Research Service that makes a comparison of spending on major U.S. wars from the American Revolution onwards, of course it is not perfect but the report does note this through various caveats. Considering the dept the U.S. has incurred since 2001 and the…
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Some Links: Killer Monkeys, Norway and Pundits
The Taliban and Killer Monkeys: It would seem that “monkey terrorists” are being trained by the Taliban in the Waziristan tribal region. They are being shown how to use AK-47s and Bren machine-guns. Though many armed forces utilize animals in various roles, it was the USA in Vietnam who first used trained monkeys to attack enemy troops,…
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Some Interesting Links…
Image via Wikipedia No More Pilots: The UK Ministry of Defence have unveiled a unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), named Taranis, designed to penetrate into enemy controlled air-space, something the current generation of UAVs are not able to do. Lebron and Poli Sci: Here in Ohio LeBron James is all over the news, here the Monkey…
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Secret Treaties, Oppressive Laws and Killing the Internet
From John Robb, a series of links that highlight the world we live in as states attempt reassert their dominance in the global system. The methods being employed are likely to end in failure, but using the methods employed below can not be good for anyone. The ‘state’ is currently an injured animal and is…
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Drones – The Legal and Moral War
Image via Wikipedia A common theme that keeps coming up of late is the use of drones by the US military. While in previous posts we have seen how the US Air Force is wrestling with integrating the new drone pilots into its structure we now see other more important issues are starting to be…
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Motorcycle Industry Letter to the Commission
Image via Wikipedia With all the talk of late of new EU regulations concerning the future of motorcycles in Europe, such as restrictions of 100bhp, I have been surprised the motorcycle industry has remained so quiet, now we have what seems to be the first major response from the ACEM (the Motorcycle Industry in Europe).…
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The Dropout Revolutionaries
Times are a changin’, as the lyric goes, but this is not the sort of change to believe in or even one that many politicians would even desire. A type of antipolitics is emerging along the lines of John Robbs resilient communities. Around us we see the formation of new underground banking systems regulated only…
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