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An anti-Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi protester prays as he holds the old Libyan flag, during the Friday prayer at the court square, in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Friday March 4, 2011. Fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi set up checkpoints in Tripoli, searching cars, ahead of planned anti-government protests Friday, raising fears of new bloodshed in the Libyan capital where a heavy crackdown the past week has spread fear among residents. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

The neocons are trying to talk us into war — again

Michael Lind
A no-fly zone over Libya would be a gateway drug that leads to all-out American military invasion and occupation
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, right, talks with Gen. David Petreaus upon his arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Defense Department/Cherie Cullen) (AP)

Petraeus, Gates caught joking about Libya

Peter Finocchiaro
"You gonna launch some attacks on Libya or something?"
An anti-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi rebel, holds his anti-aircraft missile as he looks to the sky, in the oil town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, Sunday, March 6, 2011. Thousands of Moammar Gadhafi's supporters poured into the streets of Tripoli on Sunday, waving flags and firing their guns in the air in the Libyan leader's main stronghold. Earlier, the city woke to the crackle of heavy machine-gun fire that rattled the capital before dawn.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Against Libya’s rebels, Gadhafi controls the skies

Ryan Lucas, Paul Schemm
As the U.N. scrambles on a no-fly zone resolution, the loyalist forces launch air attacks on rebels
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, right, talks with Gen. David Petreaus upon his arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Defense Department/Cherie Cullen) (AP)

What our Secretaries of Defense keep getting wrong

Tom Engelhardt
Gates still doesn't understand the real mistake we made in Afghanistan and Iraq: sending troops in at all
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, gestures towards journalists during joint press conference with Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic, not in picture, at The Presidential Palace in Kabul , Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb, 19, 2011. Afghanistan's president says any decision on a permanent U.S. military presence in the country must be made by Afghans and take into account the concerns of neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

Afghan president rejects U.S. apology over killings

Patrick Quinn
Karzai says civilian casualties are no longer an acceptable consequence of U.S. occupation
FILE - This undated file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private suspected of being the source of some of the unauthorized classified information disclosed on the WikiLeaks website. Manning's civilian attorney David Coombs said Wednesday, March 2, 2011, that the new charges announced by the military are not unexpected. The 22 new charges include "aiding the enemy," which is a capital offense although prosecutors say they won't seek the death penalty. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

Marines defend making WikiLeaks suspect sleep nude

David Dishneau
The military has drawn harsh criticism for its decision to make Bradley Manning sleep naked
Memorial Church in Harvard Yard

Harvard to allow ROTC back on campus

Jay Lindsay
After 41 years in defiant protest against military policies the nation's oldest university will help train soldiers
Matt Damon

Matt Damon disappointed in Obama: “I no longer hope for audacity”

Matt Zoller Seitz
In a CNN appearance, one of the president's most vocal Hollywood supporters says Obama "misinterpreted his mandate"
President Barack Obama speaks during a bi-partisan meeting of governors in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

“Moammar Gadhafi has lost the legitimacy to lead and he must leave”

Bradley Klapper
In a press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Obama denounced the Libyan president

What we know so far about the Frankfurt airport shooter

Adam Clark Estes
Was he an Islamic terrorist or misguided youth? Did he act alone? Where was he from? Here's what we've learned
A bullet hole is seen in the driver's window as the bus is towed away after a gunman fired shots at U.S. soldiers on the bus outside Frankfurt airport, Germany, Wednesday, March 2, 2011 killing two airmen and wounding two before being taken into custody. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) (AP)

Suspect in Frankfurt shooting admits targeting American troops

Melissa Eddy, Tomislav Skaro
The alleged shooter in Frankfurt, a Muslim airport employee, says he worked alone and aimed for Americans
Anti-Gadhafi protestors Kadija Sherif, right, and Hana Benghalbon, background, take part in a demonstration at the Libyan Embassy in Washington, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) (AP)

Realistic options for ousting Gadhafi look limited

Matthew Lee, Robert Burns
Little short of U.S. military intervention seems likely to force Gadhafi from power in the short term.

Supreme Court says Westboro Baptist Church can protest at military funerals

Salon/AP
The bench rules in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church's right to stage anti-gay protests at military funerals
Libyans wave Libyan monarchist-era flags on a monument in the southwestern town of Nalut, Libya, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. The town is currently in control of the Libyan anti-government forces. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

U.S. cautious on military action against Libya

The Associated Press
Secretary of Defense says any action against Libya would have far reaching consequences for the military
From left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen; Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Pentagon Comptroller Robert F. Hale, and others, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, before the HouseArmed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Department's budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

The real U.S. national security budget

Chris Hellman
The money set aside for defense spending only makes up half of what we actually pay for "security"
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Tiny spy planes mimic birds and insects

Julie Watson
Researchers are working on nature-inspired drones to help rescue people during disasters and, yes, also to spy

The nationalism bias of journalists

Glenn Greenwald
Jack Goldsmith believes U.S. journalists are guided by allegiance to American interests, and that this is good
Human Rights council members follow a speech by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday Feb. 28, 2011. The 27-nation bloc agreed an arms embargo, asset freeze and visa ban against Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi on Monday. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

West moves to help Libya uprising, Gadhafi digs in

Maggie Michael
The U.S. and E.U. have started taking steps to aid opponents to Moammar Gadhafi's regime
Tom Ricks of Foreign Policy magazine and The Washington Post, along with fellow FP editors Joshua Keating and Blake Hounshell all rushed to discredit Seymour Hersh and the contents of his January 17, 2011 speech.

Seymour Hersh and the men who want him committed

Matthew Phelan
A venerable publication launches a ridicule campaign against one of America's top investigative journalists
U.S. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the commander of NATO’s mission to train Afghan policemen and soldiers Kabul, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb, 12, 2011. Caldwell says more nations are pledging support, yet the coalition still faces a shortage of 740 trainers needed to get the Afghan security forces ready to take the lead in securing their nation by the end of 2014. On Saturday, Latvia and Lithuania pledged 16 and 23 trainers to mentor the Afghan Air Force in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

The military/media attacks on the Hastings article

Glenn Greenwald
WSJ, MSNBC reporters attack an expose. Plus, this just in from the NYT: "we tried our best not to be misleading"

Dear Thomas Pynchon, can you blurb my book?

Scott Rothman, Mike Sacks
Letters from an aspiring writer with big dreams -- and big delusions about his novel

Obama presides over a private contractor boom

Justin Elliott
The use of armed private contractors has soared in Afghanistan since President Obama took office, a report finds
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D- Mich. the chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee talks during a press conference accompanied by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010.

General ordered psy-ops to be used on American elected officials

Alex Pareene
The Army asked a propaganda unit to influence senators, according to Michael Hastings
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, speaks with Gen. David Petraeus NATO's top commander in Afghanistan during a press event in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Vice President Joe Biden was in Afghanistan Monday for a surprise visit aimed at assessing progress in handing over security from foreign to Afghan forces, a key issue that comes against a backdrop of mounting concerns in the U.S. over the gains made in the nearly decade-long war. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

All-American decline in a new world

Tom Engelhardt
5 ways Washington is oblivious to the changing realities of the Middle East
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