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What Else?

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange has been awarded the prestigious Australian 2011 Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contributions to Journalism. Well done. His acceptance speech and sharp criticism of in particular his Prime Minister Julia Guillard for being Obama’s and his Administration’s poodle … Continue reading

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The Lost Decade

Where have I been ten years ago? Well, I don’t know. Ten years ago, Ahmad Shah Masoud, the leader of the Northern Alliance, had been assassinated by al Qaeda, but I have learned about that critical event long time after … Continue reading

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No Badass

  Private First Class Bradley Manning is currently detained at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, waiting for a hearing to decide whether he will face  a court martial. He had been detained for ten months at the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico, Virginia in maximum-custody … Continue reading

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Getting Fired by Obama

President Barack Obama can’t take jokes, that’s for sure. When his former Commander of the International Security Assistant Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal was forced to resigned after disrespectful comments on Veepee Joe Biden and the Administration … Continue reading

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Hiking In the Danger Zone

Update below. It is hoped that the enormous amount of data on the Iraq war 2003-2010 which have been made public by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks this week will keep analysts busy for the coming weeks. Amazingly, the leaked 391,832 military documents, … Continue reading

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