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"Good news!" As @wemeantwell tells us, "we're sorta now at war in Guatemala." http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2012/08/30/good-news-were-sorta-now-at-war-in-guatemala/ …
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Check out Tom's latest piece on the subject: “Losing It in Washington” #Afghanistan #greenonblue
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175587/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_losing_it_in_washington/ …
In August alone there have been more than half the number of green-on-blue attacks as in all of 2011. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2012/0830/Afghanistan-war-More-insider-attacks-hand-Australia-worst-casualties-since-Vietnam …
’We built it’ is the theme at the govt funded convention in a govt-subsidized convention center. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/opinion/collins-renovating-mitt-romney.html …
Five flagrant hypocrisies/lies of the #Ryan speech, via @newyorker. http://ht.ly/dlfby #gop2012
Karzai may be consolidating power ahead of 2014 elections. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/world/asia/karzai-is-seen-as-poised-to-overhaul-afghan-leadership.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimesworld …
The Republican platform, in 1980 and today: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/29/us/politics/republican-party-platforms-now-and-then.html?ref=politics …
Small businessman who slammed Obama at GOP convention got $850,000 in government loans. #surprise http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/businessman-republican-convention-you-didnt-build-that-loan …
Looks like our grand plans for Afghanistan are facing a rather grim reality. http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175587/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_losing_it_in_washington/#more …
#NATO may need to send more troops into #Afghanistan just to pack up and "exit." http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/28/us-afghanistan-nato-pullout-idUSBRE87R15S20120828 …
Is it not possible to have a safe convention without calling out the military? #GOP2012
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/268971/4/Florida-National-Guard-troops-ready-for-mission-to-protect-Republican-convention …
Paul Ryan says he used the term "forcible rape" because it was "stock language." http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/paul-ryan-defends-redefinition-rape-just-stock-language …
In 2011 the Us essentially took a monopoly position in the global arms trade, with about 78% of the global arms market. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/world/middleeast/us-foreign-arms-sales-reach-66-3-billion-in-2011.html …
Evidence on the ground indicates that Afghans aren't really cool with a 20-year occupation. http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175587/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_losing_it_in_washington/ …
10 top pieces of bad news for #Romney on the eve of the convention. @jricole
http://www.juancole.com/2012/08/top-ten-pieces-of-bad-news-for-romney-on-eve-of-convention.html …
Budget cut-backs are stripping the poor of their constitutional right to a speedy trial. @thenation
http://www.thenation.com/article/169516/locked-without-key-new-orleans# …
There have been 32 incidents of #greenonblue violence just this year, compared to 21 reported in all of 2011.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175587/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_losing_it_in_washington/ …
Last TD till Labor Day on how empire's best laid plans can go awry&why we may leave Afghanistan sooner than imagined http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175587/
Tom Engelhardt on our likely "expedited departure" from #Afghanistan. http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175587/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_losing_it_in_washington/ …
A timeline of the male notions and common-law statutes that have defined rape over the centuries: http://mojo.ly/OlTony via @erika_eee
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