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Inside the Lawsuit That Could Ground Deadly CIA Predator Drones

A new lawsuit alleges that Predator drone targeting software was pirated, and emails obtained by Fast Company suggest the CIA knew it was sub-par.READ»

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Driving in the Valley of the Shadow of Death

It's the management problem from hell: How do you run a company whose customers and employees are being killed?READ»

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Aftershock rattles Haiti

Untitled Document The 5.9 aftershock hit at daybreak. Shrieking Haitians ran from buildings and walls, fearing a repeat of the magnitude 7 quake that killed tens of thousands of people eight days ago. Hole digger Though the ...READ»

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Time to Take Stock

"We're not only fighting back militarily, but we're also fighting back with our values."READ»

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Media: Message of Fear

After nearly three years, Osama bin Laden has resurfaced in American mainstream media. A video emerged on Tuesday featuring the terror leader's still image and his voice in which he praises the 19 "champions" (suicide hijackers) who ...READ»

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Deemed Not Quite "Blood Diamonds," Gems Go on Sale

Human Rights Watch cries foul, but "blood diamonds" are only mined by rebel groups, says watchdog.READ»

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Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case

This legal technicality indicates the Hague must dismiss charges against Dr karadzic and others awaiting trials in the Hague jail; like it or not. Unfortunately for the Signatures Of the Rome Statute United Nations member states instituting the ICC & ICTY housed at the Hague, insofar as the, Radovan Karadzic, as with the other Hague cases awaiting trial there, I personally witnessed these United Nations member states openly speaking about trading judicial appointments and verdicts for financial funding when I attended the 2001 ICC Preparatory Meetings at the UN in Manhattan making the iCTY and ICC morally incapable trying Radovan Karazdic and others.READ»

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Robert Latham at New School Allowed Ethnic Albanian To Condone Genocide Against Serbian Orthodox Christians in Kosovo

VI. As I said I left early but I will never forget his phrase stating: “I, Fatmos Ljubonia, have come to the New School for Social Research to ask you, The New School students, to give me, Fatmos Ljubonia, new creative nationalist ideas to PROMOTE AND TO CONSTRUCT A GREATER ALBANIA!”READ»

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Former Combat Soldier-Activist Paul Rieckhoff on Wikileaks and Founder Julian Assange

After a "pretty heated discussion" with the man who revealed almost 100,000 classified military documents, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America says he's concerned about Assange's agenda.READ»

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The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution

The same technologies that have allowed for a potential democratic revolution in Iran could emerge just as readily in support of something far more sinister.READ»

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Can a Game Be Journalism? Play 'Six Days In Fallujah' to Find Out

Six Days in Fallujah isn't the title of a war correspondent's missives from the frontlines. It's not even a book about the Iraq war. It's a video game due out next year from Konami--albeit one where the ricocheting bullets, ...READ»

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Fast Talk: 9/11/02

It's one year later. Where were you then? Where are you now? How have you changed?READ»

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A Sensor That Sniffs Out Shoe Bombs

Chemistry and unique color patterns could help the TSA suss out terrorist footwear. Does this mean shorter lines at security?READ»

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Battle Plan

Former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Ralph Peters outlines nine strategies for understanding, fighting, and defeating the new enemy. Rule #1: Culture is king.READ»

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A Monument to Work?

There's an interesting debate brewing in New York City over the design of the World Trade Center memorial. The original plan calls for the names of the 2,979 victims of the trade center terrorist acts in 1993 and 2001 to be listed ...READ»

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migrant links london and slim internally displaced persons

The Coalition has expected verified news of abductions of under-18s from migrant links london and slim internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in attitude to such a stopover. LONDON - Children under 18 days are being abducted from ...READ»

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Hillary, Brown Back $500 M Deal for the Taliban

Let’s say you’re in $100,000 debt. Would you care about trying to finance a BMW? Would you care about keeping up with the Jones’? No. You’re fighting to put food on the table, not worrying about a sexy car or the size...READ»

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Swedish Prosecutor Reopens Rape Investigation Against Julian Assange

A Swedish prosecutor has today reopened the rape investigation on Wikileaks frontman Julian Assange. The enigmatic Australian had been accused of rape by a Swedish woman, who reported him to police, sparking a mammoth flurry of ...READ»

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Tate Publishing Author Writes Book About Surviving the Khmer Rouge

Tate Publishing author Oni Vitandham’s book On the Wings of a White Horse: A Cambodian Princess’s Story of Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide is a moving and inspirational account of the author’s life, from the jungles of ...READ»

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If It Quacks Like a Duck...

In the current issue of New York, Kurt Andersen laments America's age of lame-duckism, "in which the discredited and obsolete and totally over shuffle around in the limelight for years after their sell-by dates." Andersen artfully ...READ»

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Fighting Spirit

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

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The Palestinian Conflict, Settled on Your iPhone

A new app called Facts on the Ground lets users track settlements in the West Bank -- and pushes the app world into political advocacy.READ»

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Continental Courage

Where do you find courage in this country? Not in the southern or western U.S., which overwhelming succumbed to the Bush campaign's fear mongering and Dick Cheney's demented suggestion that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for the ...READ»

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CEOs, Your Customers Are in Pain

Can you hear them? Are you close enough to understand what's broken about your customer experience? I've been out and about with your leaders and the frontline, and what they really need is for YOU to get your skin into the game. ...READ»

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Implications of Mumbai terror attack ...

Some thing is needed to be done soon, else it might get too late!READ»