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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
FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2010, file photo, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks in Washington. The jockeying to find a nominee to challenge President Barack Obama is a crowded, unsettled affair, but one thing's clear: It will be more conservative, to tp bottom, than was the Republican Primary four years ago, and several before that. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) (AP)

Is Mike Huckabee bored by foreign policy?

Justin Elliott
The potential 2012 hopeful says of the war in Afghanistan: "I don't know" what to do
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange listens as his lawyer Mark Stephens speaks outside Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Assange's lawyer and a Swedish legal expert on Tuesday accused Swedish prosecutors of irregularities and illegality in the way they built a sex crimes case against the WikiLeaks founder. Assange was in a London courtroom for a second day Tuesday, fighting extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over claims of rape and sexual molestation made by two Swedish women. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) (AP)

Assange faces extradition for sex crimes

Cassandra Vinograd
A British judge ruled that the Wikileaks founder can be extradited to Sweden. Assange's lawyer will appeal
Former presidents Buchanan and Bush

Who’s the worst president of them all?

Glenn W. LaFantasie
When it comes to who least deserves to be honored today, it's a close call between the 43rd and 15th presidents
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This week in winning hearts and minds

Glenn Greenwald
Four incidents from the last week alone highlight why there is intense anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world
In this Feb. 11, 2011 photo released by CBS, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the reaction in in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. CBS News says Logan was attacked Friday, and suffered a brutal beating and sexual assault before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She is recovering in a U.S. hospital. Logan, CBS News' chief foreign affairs correspondent, is one of at least 140 correspondents who have been injured or killed since Jan. 30 while covering the unrest in Egypt, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. (AP Photo/CBS News) (AP)

Female foreign correspondents’ code of silence, finally broken

Kim Barker
The assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan has brought public attention to the plight of female foreign correspondents

Glenn Beck accuses Planned Parenthood of assisting in sex trafficking

Peter Finocchiaro
The Fox News host spent an entire hour attacking the non-profit, says the organization abets in sex trafficking
Hamid Karzai

U.S. sanctions target Afghan money laundering

Deb Riechmann
Karzai government's ability to win public support has been hindered by accusations of bribery and suspicious loans
Lara Logan

The right makes hay with Lara Logan attack

Joan Walsh
Nir Rosen apologized for his tweets and lost his job, but righty bloggers keep using Logan's tragedy politically

How 480 characters unraveled my career

Nir Rosen
My tweets about Lara Logan cost me my job and humiliated my family. Here's what I meant to say
Afghan police men shout at photographers to prevent them approaching the entrance of damaged building of shopping complex after a suicide bomber detonated a cache of explosives inside the building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb, 14, 2011. An explosion rocked a shopping and hotel complex on Monday, killing at least two people, officials said, in the second attack in less than a month inside the heavily secured Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

The easy way to cut $100 billion

Tom Engelhardt
Serious about fixing our budget woes? Then it's time to defund the unwinnable disaster in Afghanistan
U. S. Senator John Kerry, left, meets Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. Kerry's meeting with Pakistani officials is an indication that the American politician may have a rocky time convincing Pakistan to free a U. S. consulate employee Raymond Davis, allegedly involved in shooting of two Pakistanis.(AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) (AP)

Sen. Kerry upbeat after talks on Pakistan detention

Heidi Vogt, Munir Ahmed
Kerry met with Pakistani leaders to prevent a "diplomatic meltdown" over controversial detention of American worker
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)

Obama victory as House votes down expensive jet fighter engine

Andrew Taylor
The House of Representatives voted down an expensive next-generation military jet engine in floor vote today

I’m an AOL chatroom junkie

Gael McCarte
It's been 10 years, and I'm more addicted to my online community of politicos than ever
The American University of Iraq. Inset: Lynn Cheney.

The empire strikes again

Russ Baker, Kristina Borjesson
Sex, oil, chaos and corruption at the American University of Iraq
Copies of President Obama's 2012 budget are delivered to the Senate Budget Committee, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Deficit makes up biggest share of economy since 1945

Jeannine Aversa, Christopher S. Rugaber
President Obama's $1.6 trillion deficit has some economists worried about a spike in interests rates down the road
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