Bob Morris Posted on Wed Dec 5, 2012 4:30 am. Tags: Afghanistan
@polizeros Its hard to believe someone can say such a thing (it widens our aperture) without recognizing the derangement. — Keith Boyea (@KeithB18) December 5, 2012 The US admits killing innocent children in Afghanistan. Rather than accept responsibility and insure it never happens again, they’ve simply re-labelled all children as potential threats. Those weren’t [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Mar 19, 2012 13:00 pm. Tags: Afghanistan
From Polizeros pal Steve Hynd at The Agonist. Something here stinks and, frankly, I think Afghans have been in general far more reliable about their accounts of civilian killings than the Pentagon has. There will be Hell to pay if there was a death squad and the Pentagon is covering it up.
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Jan Tucker Posted on Wed Mar 14, 2012 13:00 pm. Tags: Afghanistan
The 16 civilians murdered in Afghanistan allegedly by a US sergeant happened in one of the few areas of the planet with a concentration of my very very rare Y-Chromosome DNA Haplogroup/Subclade, “G2c.” So, as I ponder the insanity of these killings it’s not some sort of abstraction that happened to faceless people in a [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:45 am. Tags: Afghanistan, debt ceiling, foreign policy, Obama, podcast, Polizeros Radio
We had a wide-ranging show last night, with Keith Boyea joining Steve Hynd and myself. Listen to the show on BlogTalkRadio or on iTunes. Topics: Both parties are quite willing to fund-raise off the debt ceiling kabuki, oblivious and uncaring of the consequences, which could include a government shutdown, mortgage rates spiking, and a downgrade [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:15 am. Tags: Afghanistan, debt ceiling, Obama, podcast, Polizeros Radio
Tonight Steve Hynd and I welcome our new co-host, Keith Boyea, who blogs about national security, veterans issues, and current affairs. (Josh Mull, who had the original idea for the podcast had to drop out due to work commitments. Big thanks to Josh for getting this started and rolling!) Show topics tonight Steve says, “Bush [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:30 am. Tags: Afghanistan, California prisons, Huntsman
On last night’s podcast, I announced that CAIVN will be running a series on in-depth articles on the California prison mess. The series kicks off on Monday with an introductory article (I’ll repost it here) discussing the multitude of issues. These includes the Supreme Court ruling that California prisons are cruel and unusual punishment because [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Jun 23, 2011 15:30 pm. Tags: Afghanistan
Obama’s Afghan tepid Afghanistan withdrawal announcement was righfully criticized by many. Netroots Nation and Right Online recently had conventions and both left and right are internally split on some issues. With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, Josh Mull (@joshmull) and myself. Join us! To listen to the show live, go to Polizeros Radio on BlogTalkRadio. You [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:30 am. Tags: 2012 elections, Afghanistan, Rick Perry
Steve Hynd, who lives in Texas, makes a convincing case that Rick Perry could become the Republican candidate for president in 2012 after Newt Gingrich’s campaign crated yesterday. Perry could be a compromise candidate, given the weak field and hard-right Tea Partiers who will split that vote among themselves. He is glib, telegenic, able to [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Tue Jun 7, 2011 22:42 pm. Tags: Afghanistan
The turbines pump water onto new cropland or into holding areas for when there is no wind. This is an ancient use of wind, but is being used for the first time in Afghanistan in areas where there is no electricity.
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Bob Morris Posted on Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:04 am. Tags: 2012 elections, Afghanistan, Libya, NPR, podcast, Polizeros Radio
Libya no-fly zone, NPR sting, 2012 elections, Afghanistan war, and more. Eric Martin is senior Editor of ProgressiveRealist.org “a metablog about American foreign policy.” With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, and Josh Mull of Firedoglake & Rethink Afghanistan and myself. Listen to the show on BlogTalkRadio or on iTunes. Download the mp3.
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