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8 Sep 2014: Obama considers focusing on Isis bases in Syria as study finds jihadis have anti-tank rockets seized from rival rebels there
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15 Aug 2014: Cameron and Clegg agree to arm Kurds at Cobra meeting while Sunni leaders issue Baghdad with a series of demands
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6 Aug 2014:
Noam Chomsky for TomDispatch: It is a wonder we have survived all these decades, given US policies on nuclear armament since Hiroshima
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6 Aug 2014: Azriel Bermant: The missile defence shield, currently blocking Hamas rockets, limits the need for pre-emptive strikes by any country that has it
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15 Jun 2014:
Barack Obama opposed war in Iraq, then backed failed interventions in Afghanistan and Libya. Even if today's Iraq crisis warranted US involvement, that would be tough to broker, says Michael Cohen
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12 Jun 2014:
Nafeez Ahmed: Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements
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14 Apr 2014:
Russian defence spending rises by 4.8% to $88bn, devoting larger share of GDP on military than US for first time since 2003
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12 Apr 2014:
Michael Cohen: Naysayers allege that American influence is waning and cite Barack Obama's inaction on Syria and Ukraine as proof that its foreign policy has been reduced to watching the 'bad guys' do what they like. That is a complete fantasy
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12 Feb 2014:
George Brandis says former NSA contractor’s disclosures about western intelligence gathering ‘put Australian lives at risk’
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2 Feb 2014:
Republican Robert M Gates's account of his years in the Bush and Obama administrations is sometimes catty yet full of insights, writes Dan Roberts
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23 Jan 2014: Seumas Milne: US forces in Britain aren't defending the country but lock it into an empire in decline. It's past time for some independence
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16 Jan 2014:
Simon Jenkins: Britain hasn't faced a true threat since the cold war, but that hasn't stopped the defence lobby from peddling paranoia
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6 Jan 2014: Secretary of state says US troops will not return to aid Iraqis they once trained in battle to regain Sunni province
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26 Dec 2013: Lyn Gardner: George Brant's searing monologue about an ace US pilot now flying drones, was a gripping analysis of 21st-century warfare
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20 Dec 2013:
$630bn measure authorises Pentagon's 2014 budget which aims to crack down on military sexual assault
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