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The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days once the Senate passes a long-delayed aid bill . That's because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe that already ...
by Associated Press
on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 03:59 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It’s true that no nuclear weapon has been used (except in tests) since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in...
by TomDispatch
on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 07:06 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Imagine for a moment that I told you Congress was suddenly teetering at the edge of passing a $95-billion bill to give many more...
by TomDispatch
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 07:16 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Make no mistake, artificial Intelligence (AI) has already gone into battle in a big-time way. The Israeli military is using it in...
by TomDispatch
on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 07:10 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. A Slow-Motion Gaza Or How to Carbonize Planet Earth By Tom Engelhardt Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come...
by TomDispatch
on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 09:24 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Oh, the madness of it all! And I do mean madness. Today, Pentagon expert and TomDispatch regular William Hartung considers just...
by TomDispatch
on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 07:06 AM PST
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Dr. John Mearsheimer is a famous political scientist who specializes in offensive neo-realism (structural realism) in the field of international relations. He currently teaches at the University of Chicago. Structural realists believe that the...
by frankfaiola
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 10:53 AM PDT
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The number of comments I see across sites, led by the GOP insurrection and Putin appeasement caucus, in reference to Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine to include those auditioning to be RT News presenters is deeply saddening. Frightening, too. Many...
by DrLou
on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 02:49 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Here’s something strange about our all-too-nuclearized planet: in my youth during the 1950s and early 1960s, the possibility of an...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Sep 28, 2023 at 07:10 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. In September 2007, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore emailed me out of the blue. He’d been reading...
by TomDispatch
on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 07:19 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Okay, if you want to grasp the new world we’re now in, imagine this. No, not a Phoenix that set a record of 31 straight days above...
by TomDispatch
on Tue Aug 15, 2023 at 07:35 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I give myself credit for being significantly ahead of my time. I first came across artificial intelligence (AI) in 1968 when I was...
by TomDispatch
on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 08:04 AM PDT
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Beware the tech-military complex. President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned against the influence of the military-industrial complex in his 1961 Farewell Address to the American people. I think he would revise his warning if he was still alive and...
by Alan Singer
on Wed May 24, 2023 at 02:05 PM PDT
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The Guardian reports that the UK is leading an effort to assemble an international coalition that could supply mid-range cruise missiles to Ukraine. International Fund for Ukraine (IFU) is a UK-led initiative for purchasing arms on behalf of Ukraine,...
by RO37
on Tue May 09, 2023 at 08:33 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Honestly, it should take your breath away. We are on a planet prepping for further war in a staggering fashion. A watchdog group,...
by TomDispatch
on Thu May 04, 2023 at 06:51 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It’s the military from hell — and, no, I don’t mean the Russian army, though, it certainly qualifies. Few now doubt that Vladimir...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Mar 30, 2023 at 09:44 AM PDT
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The following is the “Really Bad News” for Russia and the Russian Military. It reviews the mistakes of the war to date. Also, the futility and danger of the continued Russian/Wagner frontal assaults at Bakhmut and the challenges Russia faces against...
by Verus
on Wed Apr 05, 2023 at 10:41 AM PDT
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Click on homepage links to contact admins, see recent posts, and find the FOLLOW button for automatic delivery of their posts to your DK Activity Stream. Some related groups are listed, often good for where to request reblogging and read more on...
by mettle fatigue
on Tue Jan 17, 2023 at 12:30 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and now moi, JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
on Fri Dec 23, 2022 at 08:58 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It was a backlit wonder of a plane on what looked like a Hollywood set — though the location was actually a Northrop Grumman plant...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Dec 15, 2022 at 08:40 AM PST
with 1 Recommend
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