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The Drone Papers, Part V: Target Africa
The U.S. military has engaged in a largely covert effort to extend its footprint across East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula with a network of mostly small and low-profile camps, some of which serve as staging areas for quick-reaction forces.
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The Drone Papers, Part IV: Firing Blind
Newly obtained documents show the U.S. military has faced “critical shortfalls” in the technology and intelligence it uses to find and kill suspected terrorists with drones in Yemen and Somalia.
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Homan Square Revealed: How Chicago Police "Disappeared" 7,000 People
A Guardian lawsuit has exposed the fullest scale yet of detentions at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse – where nearly twice as many people were held secretively than was previously disclosed.
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The Drone Papers, Part III: Find, Fix, Finish
For the Pentagon, creating an architecture of assassination meant navigating a turf war with the CIA.
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The Drone Papers, Part II: The Kill Chain
Secret military documents obtained by The Intercept offer rare documentary evidence of the process by which the Obama administration creates and acts on its kill list of terror suspects overseas.
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Eric Garner and Tamir Rice Among Those Missing From FBI Record of Police Killings
Only 224 of 18,000 law enforcement agencies around the U.S. reported a fatal shooting by their officers to the FBI last year, shedding new light on flaws in official systems for counting the use of deadly force by police.
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Former U.S. Detainees Sue Psychologists Responsible For CIA Torture Program
James Mitchell, John “Bruce” Jessen and their employees netted almost $85 million dollars in contracted fees from the CIA for executing a pseudoscientific plan to extract information from alleged terrorists.
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The U.S. Way of War: From Columbus to Kunduz
The confluence of Columbus Day Weekend and the Kunduz hospital bombing has us thinking about the deep levels of cultural violence in the United States and what can be done to change it.
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After Deadly Bomb Blasts In Turkish Capital, Thousands Take To Streets Blaming Government
A day after twin bombings targeted a peace rally in the capital Ankara, killing over 100 civilians, demonstrators and mourners put blame squarely on the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Wars Profit the 1%, Part III: How Armed Conflict Drives Climate Change
Oil and the war business are as connected to each other as they are tied to capitalism – which is why, to tackle climate change, we need to dismantle both.
