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07-08-2013, 03:47 PM
Not any new news to us, but pass out the article
(https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/354353857624670208)
The Pentagon Is Spending Your Tax Dollars to Keep You in the Dark About Its Sprawling Empire (https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/354353857624670208)
Requests for info from the Pentagon on its activities across the planet are met with obstruction and obfuscation. (https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/354353857624670208)
http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/the_pentagon_us_department_of_defense_building.jpg
July 7, 2013 | (https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/354353857624670208)
There are hundreds, possibly thousands of U.S. personnel -- the military refuses to say how many -- stationed in the ochre-tinted country of Qatar. Out in the searing heat of the desert, they fly fighter jets or fix them. They equip and arm troops headed to war. Some work in a high-tech command-and-control center overseeing (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/us-military-joins-cias-drone-war-in-pakistan/) U.S. air operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Greater Middle East. Yet I found myself sitting in a hotel room in Doha, Qatar’s capital, about 30 miles east of al-Udeid Air Base, the main U.S. installation in the country, unable to see, let alone talk, to any of them.
More at: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/pentagon-spending-your-tax-dollars-keep-you-dark-about-its-sprawling-empire?paging=off
Retweet at: https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/354353857624670208
(https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/354353857624670208)
The Pentagon Is Spending Your Tax Dollars to Keep You in the Dark About Its Sprawling Empire (https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/354353857624670208)
Requests for info from the Pentagon on its activities across the planet are met with obstruction and obfuscation. (https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/354353857624670208)
http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/the_pentagon_us_department_of_defense_building.jpg
July 7, 2013 | (https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/354353857624670208)
There are hundreds, possibly thousands of U.S. personnel -- the military refuses to say how many -- stationed in the ochre-tinted country of Qatar. Out in the searing heat of the desert, they fly fighter jets or fix them. They equip and arm troops headed to war. Some work in a high-tech command-and-control center overseeing (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/us-military-joins-cias-drone-war-in-pakistan/) U.S. air operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Greater Middle East. Yet I found myself sitting in a hotel room in Doha, Qatar’s capital, about 30 miles east of al-Udeid Air Base, the main U.S. installation in the country, unable to see, let alone talk, to any of them.
More at: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/pentagon-spending-your-tax-dollars-keep-you-dark-about-its-sprawling-empire?paging=off
Retweet at: https://twitter.com/G_fasciatus/status/354353857624670208