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The US Has Military Forces in Over 160 Countries, but the Pentagon Is Hiding the Exact Numbers

January 16, 2019

The US Has Military Forces in Over 160 Countries, but the Pentagon Is Hiding the Exact Numbers The US has 95% of the world’s foreign military bases, with personnel in more than 160 countries. But the Pentagon is leaving hundreds of outposts out of its official reports. Editor’s Note: Nick Turse reports in TomDispatch that […]

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Special Ops: 133 Countries Down, 17 to Go?

July 18, 2018

Special Ops: 133 Countries Down, 17 to Go? Give them credit. As TomDispatch’s Nick Turse has so vividly reported over the last decade, America’s previously “elite” Special Operations forces — once small, specially trained units in a large military — have now essentially become a military in their own right, all 70,000 of them (larger, […]

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The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here

June 4, 2018

The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here America does what it wants. This is obvious, except it’s also monstrously unnerving. Let’s at least add some quote marks: “America” does what it wants — this secretly defined, self-obsessed, unelected entity that purports to be the United States of America, all 325 million of us, but […]

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“We Don’t Consider You a Legitimate Journalist”–How I Got Blacklisted by the Pentagon’s Africa Command

January 14, 2018

Photo: Natalie Jidovanu “WE DON’T CONSIDER YOU A LEGITIMATE JOURNALIST” — HOW I GOT BLACKLISTED BY THE PENTAGON’S AFRICA COMMAND CONVERSATIONS WITH MILITARY spokespeople can be curt, even confrontational, but they are not supposed to go this way. “Nick, we’re not going to respond to any of your questions” Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Falvo, the head […]

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How the NSA Built a Secret Surveillance Network for Ethiopia

September 14, 2017

Photo: Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images HOW THE NSA BUILT A SECRET SURVEILLANCE NETWORK FOR ETHIOPIA “A WARM FRIENDSHIP connects the Ethiopian and American people,” U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced earlier this year. “We remain committed to working with Ethiopia to foster liberty, democracy, economic growth, protection of human rights, and the rule […]

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