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By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyBetween 2006 and 2009 I wrote a column at Slate.com under the header Hot Document dedicated to dissecting interesting ephemera. It was in that job that I first encountered WikiLeaks, the now infamous website which last week released 92,000 classified military field reports from Pakistan and Afghanistan. For those not familiar with the 3-year-old nonprofit, WikiLeaks allows unidentified sources to upload nonpublic documents to an online platform where anyone can read them. Launched in 2007 by enigmatic founder Julian Assange, WikiLeaks was presented as "as a safe place for whistleblowers to ...
Obama: Honor Memorial Day by Caring for Those in Uniform and Families of Vets
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama called on Americans to honor the country's "fallen heroes" this weekend by aiding military families and "making sure the men and women serving this country around the world have the support they need to achieve their missions and come home safely." In his weekly address, the president recalled an event in 1866 that gave rise to the Memorial Day tradition of placing flowers and wreaths on veterans graves. In fact, the holiday used to be called "Decoration Day." "A group of women visited a cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi to place flowers by the graves of Confederate soldiers ...
Building Schools in Afghanistan: Not as Simple as ABC
By David Wood - Politics DailyDURNAMA, Afghanistan -- In the broiling sun of the relentless Afghan summer, four heavy armored trucks labor up a boulder-studded mountain path. Jolting in their turrets, U.S. Army gunners can see hundreds of miles of jagged skyline and rocky uplands, an immense, barren vista where the United States of America has come to win a war through generosity.Specifically, the U.S. military is spending $312,000 to build a school on a windswept plateau here. It's part of an intricate theory of counterinsurgency warfare that involves big money and grinding hard work for a long shot, distant payoff: that ...
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