The revolving door between the Defense Department and the weapons industry spins — a new report offers ways to slow it down.
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Let us travel back in time to April 9, 1999. It was the middle of hot season in the West African country of Niger and 120 degrees in the shade. Jocelyn, one of the authors, was a newly minted Peace Corps volunteer and had recently arrived in a rural community 60 miles south of Niamey, the capital, where she would spend the next two years. That day, President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara and five other people were shot dead at the airport, a mutiny by his presidential guard. But there was no international outcry, no evacuation of Americans and Europeans. Jocelyn was told to stay put in the small community where she was living. Life went on as usual.
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“Russians are known to be capable of fighting in cold weather,” the official said.
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In 1989, the American public was flooded with iconic images of brave Chinese students standing up to Chinese Communist tanks in Tiananmen Square—students who were then brutally slaughtered by the Chinese military. Or so we were led to believe.
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The clip appears to contradict the former US president’s claim that he was not in possession of classified material after leaving office
Trump heard discussing military secrets in new audio
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To hear Donald Trump tell it, a vote for him in 2024 is a vote for world peace.
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Drag events will no longer be allowed at U.S. military facilities or installations under President Joe Biden’s Defense Department, a spokesperson confirmed this week.
Pentagon bans drag shows on US military bases
Previously:
That Time Ronald Reagan Starred in a World War II Movie Featuring Several Drag Performances
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