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The Kingpin Strategy
Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed, 1990-2015
• April 28, 2015
• 3,000 Words • 20 Comments • Reply
As the war on terror nears its 14th anniversary -- a war we seem to be losing, given jihadist advances in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen -- the U.S. sticks stolidly to its strategy of “high-value targeting,” our preferred euphemism for assassination. Secretary of State John Kerry has proudly cited the elimination of “fifty percent” of... Read More
Andrew Cockburn: How Assassination Sold Drugs and Promoted Terrorism
• April 28, 2015
• 700 Words • Leave a Comment
No one can claim that plotting assassination is new to Washington or that, in the past, American leaders and the CIA didn’t aim high: the Congo’s Patrice Lumumba, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo. The difference was that, in those days, the idea of assassinating a foreign leader, or anyone abroad, had a... Read More
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The Real American Exceptionalism
From Torture to Drone Assassination, How Washington Gave Itself a Global Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
• February 24, 2015
• 3,300 Words • 7 Comments • Reply
"The sovereign is he who decides on the exception,” said conservative thinker Carl Schmitt in 1922, meaning that a nation’s leader can defy the law to serve the greater good. Though Schmitt’s service as Nazi Germany’s chief jurist and his unwavering support for Hitler from the night of the long knives to Kristallnacht and beyond... Read More
Alfred W. McCoy: The Unwritten American Rules of the Road
• February 24, 2015
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My drone is yours, compadre! Or so Washington has now decided. The latest promise of good times in the arms trade comes from an administration that has pioneered a robotic assassination regime organized out of the White House (though credit for groundbreaking drone assassination work should go to Israel as well). Run largely by the... Read More
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The evidence is clear — but often ignored
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The Shaping Event of Our Modern World
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Analyzing the History of a Controversial Movement
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American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations
The JFK Assassination and the 9/11 Attacks?
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