Tuesday
Apr172012
Long Strange Journey
Meditations on the costs of empire
Index
- The Surveillance State And The Mob Mentality
- A Response To "Modest Encroachments"
- Wargames
- The Drone Court Dodge
- Will The Real Eric Holder Please Stand Up
- Why Does The Flickr Redesign Look So Familiar?
- A Bland And Unassuming Official
- "An Almost Mystical Reverence"
- On Red Lines And Red Herrings
- The Tsarnaevs And The FBI's Missed Opportunity
- A Peaceful Roar
- The Iraq War: Warnings Ignored
- Ignored And Irrelevant
- Nixon's Ghost: The Return Of The Imperial Presidency
- What Feeds My Soul
- Sequestration: A National Security Nightmare
- To War In Africa: Prediction Fulfilled
- An Example Of An "Approved" Leak On Cyber Threats
- From Andy To Paul, Definitely Not With Love
- GAO: VA Wait Times "Unreliable"
- Mali: Quagmire In The Making
- Liberals, Obama And The Lessons Of History
- Assassination-By-Drone: Symptom Of A Disease
- The "Arab Spring's" Winter Of Discontent
- Of Drone Wars And Star Chambers
- No Answers After 23 Years
- "Struggled to obtain access...."
- Those Iran Sanctions? Not Exactly Having A Deterrent Effect
- US Transports, Tankers Boost French Offensive in Mali
- Drone Wars: West African Chapter Begins?
- Mali: Deeper Into The Growing Quagmire
- US Role In Mali Escalates
- The Martin Luther King You Won't Hear About Tomorrow
- The Scanners That Just Won't Die
- The Missing Headline This Week
- "A Difficult Slog"
- A Grim Milestone Hagel Must Reverse
- Mali: The Next Theater In The "War On Terror"?
- Will These Lines Sink Hagel's Nomination?
- Guns and the IOM
- Abu Ghraib's Latest Chapter
- "Less popular than head lice"
- "...Iran is behind these attacks"
- "He's singing a different tune now."
- Supreme Court Hands Veterans Another Defeat On Access To Care
- Today, Drones. Tomorrow, Terminators?
- Remembering Schwarzkopf: A Desert Storm Requiem
- The View At Work On Christmas Eve
- Afghan War Claims Another Life: CDR Job Price, USN
- A Christmas Eve Message
- Strong, Capable Women Need Not Apply
- Terrorist leader Khaled Meshal: “Liberating Palestine, all of Palestine, is a duty, a right and a goal"
- Senate Detainee Interrogation Report May Stay Classified Forever
- This Is What An Intelligence Failure Looks Like
- Tim Cook On Creativity
- Afghanistan: The Writing's On The Wall
- Iran Doubles Down
- I'm Sure There's No Connection...
- Petraeus, The Political Class And The Surveillance State
- For President: Jill Stein
- Under The Weather
- The NYT's Obama Schizophrenia
- Drone Anxiety
- MI6's Mark Allen: Al Qaeda would simply scatter elsewhere
- Army Releases Latest Suicide Data
- Biden: "We're leaving Afghanistan in 2014." State: "Not exactly."
- It Isn't Just Government Snoopers You Have To Worry About
- An Intelligence Story That Should Be Getting A Lot More Play
- Iran: War Drums Grow Louder
- On Afghanistan War Anniversary, Remembering A Fallen Father
- CSM On Drone Warfare's Three Biggest Problems
- Defective Debates
- Golden Dawn
- Return To Roanoke
- The Password Protection Act
- Peter Bergen On "A Dangerous New World Of Drones"
- The Education Of A Hill Rat
- Poll: Nearly Six In Ten "Somewhat/Extremely Concerned" About Domestic Drone Use
- National Journal: Obama "Defying Gravity"
- The Drone Debate, Encapsulated
- Conviction In Chinese Espionage Case
- Our Moral Slide Continues
- Obama's UN Speech
- New Stanford/NYU Report: Living Under Drones
- Piscataway Call Center Combats Veteran Suicides
- Libya: Attack On US Consulate Not Pre-planned
- More On The Camp Bastion Attack
- "I just think we're killing kids that don't need to die"
- 9/18/01 And The Age Of Endless War
- Constitution Day: What's Been Lost
- In the "Must Read" Category: TBIJ's Drone Strike Database
- Anti-American Protests Over "The film": Mapped By The Atlantic
- Drone Debate Update for 9/14/12
- About Those Reports Of Unarmed Marines In Cairo...
- FISA Vote: Where Were The "Small Government" Conservatives?
- NDAA Indefinite Detention Provisions Ruled Unconstitutional
- Clinton Statement on Benghazi Consulate Attack
- 9/11: "More Negligence Than Has Been Disclosed"
- 9/11: The Lost Opportunities
- 9/11: The Legacy
- FISA Domestic Spying Extension Will Only Get Up-or-Down vote
- Global Hawk: The Drone That Won't Die
- Drone Debate Update for 9/9/12
- The Iraq WMD Intel Fiasco: An Epilogue
- "Compromising Positions": Thomas Frank on Obama
- New CSIS Report On Iran Highlights Dangers of "Preemptive" War
- “It has to be a target that is authorised by our laws.”
- Little Pink Houses
- Google Attempts To Censor Green Party Ad
- The Best Veteran Suicide Prevention Program in America
- The Presidential Candidate You Should Get To Know
- Book Review: "The Party Is Over"
- Drone Debate Update for August 31, 2012
- A Grey Ghost in Norfolk
- McRaven, Free Speech & Secrecy
- Preventing Vet Suicides: One Proven Program
- Remember All That NYPD Spying On Muslims?
- NYPD's Domestic Spying Megafail
- Defining "Terrorism"
- Whistleblowing: Then and Now
- Drone Debate Update for August 17, 2012
- Thursday Follies: Assange, Ecudaor and the UK
- Yes, The Party Is Over
- Afghan National Army: "Unmotivated"
- Will Police Departments Want This Ordnance For Drones?
- America And The "Others" In Our Midst
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
- Obama, #Drones & Kyrgyzstan
- Target: Saudi Arabia
- Drone Debate Update for August 3, 2012
- Iraq, "Province 19" and a War That Changed The World
- The Number of DoD Counter-IED Programs? DoD Doesn't Know
- "Luddites" And Drone Policy
- Senate Intel Auth Bill Blasted
- LA Times Calls Out Obama
- Oxymoron: "Oversight" Of The Intelligece Community
- Remembering America's Forgotten War
- Drone Debate Update for July 27, 2012
- "With Furrowed Brow and Humble Mien"
- On The Military Suicide Epidemic
- Drones: Resistance Grows At Home And Abroad
- The Drone Debate At Mid-year
- On Liberty Lost
- Drone Hacking: If College Kids Can Do It...
- DAO Baghdad Document Collection Links Fixed
- On The Perils Of "Signature Strikes"
- Memorial Day Reflections
- Profiling Update
- One Nation, Under Drones
- Wither the Generals & Admirals
- On Race Cars & Starving Men
- Drones Invade Capitol Hill
- Remembering Mike Wallace
- "Tail Gunner Joe" and Colonel West
- Remembering King
- Gassed In The Gulf: 21 Years Later
- Michael Cohen on "Rotting From the Inside Out"
- Tell Congress: No Drones Over My Neighborhood
- Domestic Spying, NYPD Style
- Mining The Gulf: Iran's Trump Card?
- Federal Employees, Take Note: Congress Wants To Screw You--Again
- Some Folks Feel Like They're Simply "Enduring America"
- Obama's Assassination Policy and "Liberal" Cognitive Dissonance
- You Get One Phone Call...
- Tell Apple: Make Your Products Ethically
- Dover Mortuary Scandal Update
- Andrew Bacevich on "The Revisionist Imperative"
- The Media Blackout On Desert Storm's 21st Anniversary
- True Gospel: King On Vietnam
- On The Price Whistleblowers Pay
- VA Extends Undiagnosed Illness Claim Window To 2016
- Vets4Warriors Goes Live
- $10 Million More
- An Apology 20 Years Too Late
- Help Desert Storm Vets: Tell Congress To Extend GWS Presumption Period
- Lives Altered by 10 Years at War
- One-third of OIF/OEF vets report PTSD-related symptoms
- Remembering Jonathan Tucker
- The US DAO Baghdad Collection
- Desert Storm: Cradle of 9/11
- At Annandale United Methodist, June 30
- Speech & book signing in Annandale on June 30
- On Assassinating Military Leaders
- LSJ Featured in Annandale Patch story, 3/28/11
- Audio of my appearance on Expert Witness Radio
- FDL Book Salon Transcript: Long Strange Journey
- Long Strange Journey: Meditations On The Costs Of Empire
- LSJ On Firedoglake Book Salon, March 12 at 5pm
- A Long Strange Journey: Seventeen Years And Counting
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 11:50AM
Copyright © 2012, Patrick G. Eddington. All rights reserved.
Reader Comments (2)
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