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Mark Collins - US: “We’re doing airstrikes in Yemen? This is beginning to feel like a regional war”– Plus CF’s Libyan Costs, Leaving NATO AWACS
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A NATO source told CBC that NATO’s AWACS program has never been busier than it is now.
The NATO planes are in heavy use over Afghanistan, and in particular, over Libya…
More than 100 Canadian air crew are involved in the program, flying the planes, and operating their sophisticated airborne sensors.
Colleen McGrann - Gadhafi’s Narrowing Options
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Mark Collins - “F-35 Lightning II Wins Norway’s (Fake) Competition”
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Colleen McGrann - Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
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Mark Collins - 2011 Ross Munro Media Award–Nominations
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The nominee’s work must be considered noteworthy in educating Canadians about security and defence, armed conflict, or the impact of these issues on society. The journalism may take various forms so long as it deals with Government policy or helps increase understanding of the role of Canada’s armed forces and the need to protect the security of the nation.
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Mark Collins - Afghanistan: News and Views
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Afghan nation-building programs not sustainable
Letters to my Daughters is the mirror image of Steve Coll’s book Ghost Wars, which chronicles the involvement of the West in Afghanistan between 1979 and 2001. Koofi’s book tells us what it was like on the inside, to have your country serve as the site of a violent and repressive tug of war between competing ideologies, and – more accurately – competing thugocracies. One of the most compelling angles to the story is how completely alien the Taliban are to the non-Pashtun Afghans. They appear in the narrative like some weird, science-fiction menace, pushing relentlessly northward, scoring victory after victory, imposing their arabist customs and interpretation of Islam on a people who had always considered themselves the pre-eminent practitioners of the Muslim faith.
“This bears emphasizing, because it has become an article of faith in the West –first amongst the anti-war left, but now in the highest reaches of the Obama administration – that the Taliban ideology is an authentic and long-standing part of the Afghan political fabric, and that ending the war will require some sort of bargain under the rubric of ‘reintegration and reconciliation.’ Fawzia Koofi begs to differ…
Mark Collins - “Report to Congress on Arctic Operations and the Northwest Passage”
The Defense Department has sent to Congress a report on its Arctic operations that leaders say will put the department in a good position to shape U.S. interests as the region undergoes dramatic climate and social changes.Mark Collins - Word Nuke Update, esp. Indo-Pak
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13 April The Alyona Show had me on yesterday to talk about the US Defense Department’s apparently untouchable budget, the Global Day of Action on Military Spending and the marketing opportunities created by the war in Libya. You can watch the segment on the show’s YouTube channel.
Drug War RantBook Review: Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know
Excellent OpEd in the New York Times by Charles M. BlowFriday marks the 40th anniversary of one of the biggest, most expensive, most destructive social policy experiments in American history: The war on drugs. [...]
So began a war that has waxed and waned, sputtered and sprinted, until it became an unmitigated disaster, an abomination of justice and a self-perpetuating, trillion-dollar economy of wasted human capital, ruined lives and decimated communities. [...]
An effort meant to save us from a form of moral decay became its own insidious brand of moral perversion — turning people who should have been patients into prisoners, criminalizing victimless behavior, targeting those whose first offense was entering the world wrapped in the wrong skin. It feeds our achingly contradictory tendency toward prudery and our overwhelming thirst for punishment.
Isn’t talking about drugs and drug laws illegal?
Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., asked whether anti-racketeering laws could be used to prosecute people conspiring to legalize drugs.
For decades, drug policy activists have faced this kind of extreme, government-led opposition to the core principles of our country.
It’s no wonder, then, that so many people today are unable to even discern the Grand-Canyon-sized gap between:
1. Doing something illegal – and
2. Advocating changes in the law
The second is not only legal, but part of our responsibility as citizens.
As a society we have become conditioned to accept that advocating legalization is, in fact, illegal.
We not only have to make our case, but we have to make a case for our right to attempt to make our case.
Losing the war on drugs
If you can’t control drug use in a maximum security prison, how can you control drugs in a free society? – Anthony Papa
U.S. can't justify its drug war spending, reports say
Government reports say the Obama administration is unable to show that billions of dollars spent in the anti-drug efforts in Latin America have made a significant difference.
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