The technology company Palantir Technologies may or may not have been part of the NSA’s currently publicized surveillance program “PRISM.” Right now it looks like a confusion among names. But considering their established relationship with the U.S. Department of Defense, the “Intelligence Community” (love the phrase), and their long-known ( Read more... )

…as our President builds his drone strike strategy. Let’s learn.

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This Veterans Day I offer a toast to my Uncle Richard. He was a very young soldier in 1943 when he was called upon to invade Sicily and fight the Nazis there ( Read more... )

In order to get unemployment insurance checks from the State of California I am required to use CalJobs, their web-based job search system. It isn't bad. I've already found one suitable opening. However, I also found this job...


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If you're a U.S. citizen capable of any political action, your first duty is to end this war ( Read more... )

But sometimes you need to drag it out. This time it's  the BBC news trying to choke down the latest buffet of insanity from our military in Iraq:

IRAQ 'REVERSE SURGE' PLAYS ON U.S. MINDS

There are a few gems, but this one stands out for me:

"US commanders are reluctant to allow the backward momentum of the reverse-surge process to merge seamlessly ( Read more... )

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