Tag: Syria

  • Iraq Reconstruction Lessons Learned finds Failure to Consult Culture and $8B in Waste

    Iraq Reconstruction Lessons Learned finds Failure to Consult Culture and $8B in Waste Related articles Iraq Reconstruction Failure (jameskennedy911.wordpress.com) Iraq’s Electricity – sign of a frail infrastructure (britishiraqi.wordpress.com) Iraq Collapse Shows Bankruptcy of Interventionism (safehaven.com)

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  • US diplomats believe Syria dropped hallucinogenic weapon on rebels

    US diplomats believe Syria dropped hallucinogenic weapon on rebels By Noah Shachtman, wired.co.uk Politics The Syr­i­an mil­i­tary used an exot­ic chem­i­cal weapon on rebels dur­ing an attack in the city of Homs, some US diplo­mats now believe. That con­clu­sion — first report­ed by For­eign Pol­i­cy’s Josh Rogin and laid out in a… RT @WiredUK: US…

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  • Why military weapons don’t belong in our communities

    Obama: `Weapon of War’ Has No Place in American Communities Bloomberg By The Numbers » 15.5 How many points the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort index rose in the past 17 weeks., bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by Scott Olson/Getty Images A “weapon of war” — Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s term today for the semi-automatic assault rifle used in the slay­ing of…

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