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2011/02/022011/02/02

AFIO Selected Headlines: Google, Woolsey, Hayden

Google Comes Under Fire for ‘Secret’ Relationship with NSA. Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google’s privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into the Internet giant’s “cozy” relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration. In a letter sent Monday, Consumer Watchdog asked Representative Darrell Issa, the new chairman …

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2011/02/012011/02/01

Americans Admire Military Personnel While Being Unaware & Uninterested in What They Do “In Our Name”

Troops Die Because of Their Country, Not For It US admiration for its soldiers may be deep and widespread, but interest in what they are doing is shallow and fleeting by Gary Younge Published on Monday, January 31, 2011 by The Guardian Most of the stories told about Benjamin Moore, 23, at his funeral started …

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2011/01/312011/01/31

End of Hegemony, Deceit, & Despots

Analysis: The US moral conundrum in Egypt (AP) – 2 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — As with Iran 30 years ago, American leaders again are wrestling with the moral conflict between Washington’s demands for democracy among its friends and strategic coziness with dictatorial regimes seen as key to stability in an increasingly complex world, particularly …

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2011/01/302011/01/30

Search: four classes of threats

Sorry about the crummy search results. Here are the two core graphics plus some related references. We cannot say enough good things about the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army. If Army flag officers paid more attention to the sound thinking coming out of there, and kept their integrity in their dealings with …

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2011/01/302011/02/13

Women of Washington–The Lunacy Continues

(1) This **could** be DoD’s near-term future; (2) honestly have not heard anything bad about her; (3) my principal concern is that she has no personal military experience, which I personally think should be mandatory for any SECDEF. Chuck Spinney Sends: Truely nuts. The article is a puff piece about an incompetent fraud who happens …

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2011/01/302011/10/22

Marginalization Not Al Quada the Real Atrocity

The ‘bin Laden’ of marginalisation The real terror eating away at the Arab world is socio-economic marginalisation. Larbi Sadiki 14 Jan 2011 Al-Jazeera From Tunisia and Algeria in the Maghreb to Jordan and Egypt in the Arab east, the real terror that eats at self-worth, sabotages community and communal rites of passage, including marriage, is …

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2011/01/302011/01/30

Egypt & Jordan: Muslim & Christian Side by Side

EGYPT: Heard on Fox (Rivera Show) at 0103 Eastern Time: Mohammed Fahmi: “Muslim and Christian are fighting side by side.” JORDAN: 2:21 p.m. Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood leader speaks out The Muslim Brotherhood has not had as large a role in the protests as some expected them to. Reporter Sharif Kouddous reported on Twitter earlier Saturday: …

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