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Book Review: The Pomegranate Peace
Pomegranate Peace, a new novel by Rashmee Roshan Lall, is a funny, sad and all-too-true piece of fiction about the failure of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, and about the crippling...
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Delusions Drive (More) U.S. Aid to Afghanistan
Little of the $300 billion the US has given to Afghanistan actually reaches an Afghan. (Photo of Hamid Karzai) When a person sees things that aren’t there, hears voices that tell him to do irrational...
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U.S. Government Hilariously Creates Secret Cuba Twitter, Then Just Quits
There is, clearly to at least two or three people in Washington, no greater threat to American safety and security than Cuba. America has had a Cold War hard-on over Cuba for decades, and so spending...
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USAID’s Response to AP’s Story on ‘Cuban Twitter’: What Isn’t Denied & What’s...
It is “important that the good work” of the US Agency for International Development “not be falsely characterized,” the agency wrote in a blog post responding to the Associated Press’ story on “Cuban...
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State Department Gives 87% of Afghan Funds to Only Five Recipients
DynaCorp’s Michael A. Benz gives a graduation certificate to an Afghan National Army soldier who successfully completed the Aircrew Chief course at Kabul Air Corps Training Center The Special Inspector...
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USAID Contractors Labeled Cuban ‘Twitter’ Users...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has steadfastly maintained that a social media project it funded, which was revealed by the Associated Press as Cuban Twitter, was not...
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USAID Fake HIV Center in Cuba Undermines Global Health Efforts
Using health care as a cover for U.S. espionage activities creates significant risks, not only for local populations but globally. Its execution is often clumsy, and it accomplishes little either for...
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Shooting Ourselves in the Foot in Afghanistan
The biggest waste of resources of all: 2,350 Americans have lost their lives in the Afghan war, with untold tens of thousands wounded, disabled or wracked by the mental scars of war.Did you know the...
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In Bungled Covert Operation, USAID Contractor Recruited Hip-Hop Artists to...
From the United States government contractor, which brought you “Cuban Twitter” and a band of untrained young Latin Americans sent to infiltrate Cuban society through the organization of an HIV...
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Coups, Massacres And Contras: The Legacy Of Washington’s New Point Man In...
Mark Feierstein, former associate administrator for USAID and Washinton’s new point man on Latin America, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Feierstein’s legacy of covert regime change has many...
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Coups, Massacres And Contras: The Legacy Of Washington’s New Point Man In...
Mark Feierstein, former associate administrator for USAID and Washinton’s new point man on Latin America, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Feierstein’s legacy of covert regime change has many...
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