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Leon Panetta (AP/Paul J. RIchards)

Panetta’s profanity-laced, flub-filled trip

Natasha Lennard
The new Defense Secretary's maiden voyage abroad was a memorable one
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 14, 2010 file photo Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Kandahar, Afghanistan. An Afghan official says Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half brother has been killed in southern Afghanistan. Zalmai Ayubi, the spokesman for Kandahar province, says that Ahmad Wali Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday July 12, 2011. Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was head of the Kandahar provincial council, had become a political liability for the Karzai government _ a symbol of cronyism and a lightning rod for criticism of all that is wrong with the Karzai administration. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) (Associated Press)

Bomber targets service for Afghan leader’s brother

Heidi Vogt, Mirwais Khan
Militant carries out suicide attack at funeral for Ahmed Wali Karzai in Kandahar

Wired publishes the full Manning-Lamo chat logs

Glenn Greenwald
Compare the claims Wired magazine made about what it concealed to what it was actually hiding
Rupert Murdoch leaves his home in Mayfair, London, as British Prime Minister David Cameron joined demands for the media mogul to drop his BSkyB takeover bid in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal Wednesday July 13, 2011. Britain's House of Commons is poised to demand that Rupert Murdoch give up on his ambition of taking over a lucrative broadcaster while a phone hacking scandal rages around his British newspaper holdings. Cameron has put his party's weight behind an opposition motion up for a vote Wednesday which declares that bidding for full control of British Sky Broadcasting would not be in the national interest. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE (AP)

Finally, Rupert Murdoch gets his due

Gene Lyons
Don't be misled by the romantic aspects of this British scandal -- it is a moral tragedy

We’re stuck in Bush’s America

Tom Engelhardt
W. and Cheney have faded from public view, but Obama continues to carry out their destructive war on terror
FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 file photo Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second from right, is met by his half brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, left, in Argandab district of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan official says Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half brother has been killed in southern Afghanistan. Zalmai Ayubi, the spokesman for Kandahar province, says that Ahmad Wali Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday July 12, 2011. Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was head of the Kandahar provincial council, had become a political liability for the Karzai government _ a symbol of cronyism and a lightning rod for criticism of all that is wrong with the Karzai administration. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, file) (Associated Press)

Afghan president’s half-brother assassinated

Mirwais Khan
Ahmad Wali Karzai, a leader in Kandahar and suspected drug trafficker, was killed by a bodyguard in his home

Welcome to the second age of decolonialization

Michael Lind
South Sudan's independence is a step toward borders in Africa, Asia and the Middle East that actually make sense
The unlikely couple: Mila Kunis and Sgt. Scott Moore.

Lucky Marine scores date with Mila Kunis

Drew Grant
How a viral video from Afghanistan netted Sgt. Scott Moore a "Friend with Benefits" (benefits not included)
President Barack Obama meets with congressional leadership in the Cabinet Room of the White House,Sunday, July 10, 2011, in Washington, to discuss the debt House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and House Speaker John Boehner. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Associated Press)

The catastrophic debt ceiling debate

James K. Galbraith
An archaic, bad-faith law is being pressed to its absurd extreme -- and we're all going to pay the price
An unarmed U.S. "Shadow" drone is launched in this undated photograph, released on January 5, 2011

Will drones change how we see war?

Barbara Ehrenreich
As machines take the place of humans on the battlefield, our relationship to combat is shifting
A Pakistani army soldier takes a position during a military operation against militants in Pakistan's Khurram tribal region, Sunday, July 10, 2011. A military operation in Kurram tribal region has been launched to clear the area of terrorists involved in various terrorist activities, including kidnapping and killing of locals, suicide attacks and blocking the road connecting Lower with upper Kurram, Pakistani army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair) (AP)

In Pakistan, many say aid “snub” dims U.S. sway

Sebastian Abbot
America withholds one-third of annual military assistance, as some warn of unintended consequences
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The great generational threat

Glenn Greenwald
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta acknowledges how puny is the Al Qaeda menace even as the War on Terror escalates
Bradley Manning

Why Bradley Manning is an American hero

Chase Madar
If the private did leak documents, his only "crime" is pushing the U.S. back to our tradition of transparency
FILE - In this May 24, 2011 file photo, media magnate Rupert Murdoch speaks during the e-G8 conference, gathering Internet and information technologies leaders and experts, in Paris. Britain's prime minister demanded inquiries into a burgeoning phone hacking scandal as allegations mounted Wednesday, July 6, 2011, that a tabloid eavesdropped on missing schoolgirls and the families of terrorist bombing victims as well as celebrities and royals. The scandal poses a threat to Murdoch's global media empire, and is causing a growing number of companies to pull their ads from the News of the World tabloid in disgust. In addition, calls are mounting for Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch's top executive in Britain, to step down. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File) (AP)

UK veterans group severs ties with News of World

Robert Barr
Report reveals that News Corp. publication targeted relatives of military personnel killed in Iraq
This is an undated file photo shows then-al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan. After Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, the White House released a photo of President Barack Obama and his cabinet inside the Situation Room, watching the daring raid unfold. Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of that instantly iconic photograph was a career CIA analyst. In the hunt for the world's most-wanted terrorist, there may have been no one more important. His job for nearly a decade: finding bin Laden. (AP Photo) (AP)

The man who hunted Osama bin Laden

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman
Meet the CIA analyst who tracked down the al-Qaida leader over the course of a decade
The bionic dog.

The Week in Uppers

Peter Finocchiaro
Inventors, veterans and bionic dogs are just a few of this week's feel-good stories
U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz, speaks with other U.S. Senators Joe Lieberman, I-Conn, and Lindsay Graham, R-SC, unseen, during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday, July 3, 2011. Three U.S. Senators visiting Kabul on Sunday say they worry that President Barack Obama's planned withdrawal of 33,000 American troops by September 2012 could undermine Afghan morale, embolden the insurgency, and hamper efforts to defeat Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

McCain: Afghan drawdown ‘unnecessary risk’

Solomon Moore
John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham express concern about withdrawal plans
Afghans carrying anti Pakistan slogans during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, July 2, 2011. Several hundred people demonstrated against rocket attacks that have killed an estimated 36 civilians along the eastern border with Pakistan in recent weeks. Pakistan's army has said no rounds were intentionally fired but that some may have accidentally fallen in Afghanistan in fighting with militants carrying out cross-border attacks. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Border strife in Afghanistan shows wider tensions

Rahim Faiez, Solomon Moore
Afghan government officials have accused Pakistan of launching more than 761 rockets over the border since May
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Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded

Glenn Greenwald
The DOJ, with the exception of two likely murders, closes the book on all of the past decade's torture crimes
President Obama delivers an address on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Does Obama idolize the military?

Tom Engelhardt
The president's Afghanistan speech featured disturbingly fawning rhetoric about the armed forces
Central Bank Governor Abdul Qadir Fitrat, left.

Arrests of top bankers finally begin

Glenn Greenwald
In Afghanistan, but not the U.S.: who should teach whom about the rule of law?
Canadian and U.S. army soldiers attached to 1st Battalion, 22nd royal regiment rest during a patrol in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan June 26, 2011. Canada is winding up combat operations in Afghanistan and all combat troops will leave by the end of July, after nearly ten years fighting in Afghanistan. U.S. President Barack Obama also said on June 22 he would pull 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by year's end, followed by about 23,000 more by the end of next summer and a steady withdrawal of remaining troops after that. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS) (Reuters)

Cost of post-9/11 wars: $4 trillion

Justin Elliott
A group of researchers tackles the vexing question of the costs -- economic and human -- of America's recent wars
Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul

Afghan police: suicide bomber strikes Kabul hotel

Associated Press
There was no immediate word on casualties, and streets leading to the Intercontinental hotel are blocked

Cost of air conditioning in US wars: $20 billion

Justin Elliott
Or 40 times the annual federal funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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