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About 3500 US troops, in a real accounting, remain in Afghanistan. Pentagon statistics show 16,832 contractors there. 1520 of them are armed private security contractors, AKA mercenaries. (I’m not interested in any reply-apologist trying to dispute this, you’re wrong & tiresome)
A Great Courses lecture series on the Ottoman Empire
It’s 9:02a.m. 26 years ago a white supremacist murdered 168 people, including 19 children, in Oklahoma City. The first people blamed were Muslims.
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ICE is feeding Muslim detainees pork at its Krome detention center in Miami and its chaplain dismisses this basic, deliberate dignity violation by saying “it is what it is.”
106 Republican congressmembers and 18 Republican attorneys general are insisting that a presidential election ought to be invalidated because their party lost. It’s being treated as no big deal because they won’t win rather than the harbinger of constitutional collapse it is.
On the one hand, Space Force is a foolish idea that solves no actual problems, but on the other hand, it's a great way to transfer taxpayer money to defense contractors
EXCLUSIVE: A Green Beret involved in an intelligence activity in Mali discovered 2 Navy SEALs were stealing money from it. Now he’s dead & they’re under investigation for killing him - after picking the worst cover story possible.
Brown University’s Cost of War Project finds that Trump’s “Bomb The Shit Out Of Them” airstrikes in Afghanistan increased civilian casualties by 330 percent from 2016. “In 2019 airstrikes killed 700 civilians - more civilians than in any other year since the beginning of the war”
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