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JSoc: Obama’s secret assassins

by News Sources 02.03.2013

Naomi Wolf writes: The film Secret Wars [sic -- the actual title is Dirty Wars], which premiered at Sundance, can be viewed, as Amy Goodman sees it, as an important narrative of excesses in the global “war on terror”. It is also a record of something scary for those of us at home – and [...]

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The risks of the French intervention in Mali

by News Sources 01.17.2013

Hannah Armstrong writes: Mamadou Doumbia was so thrilled that France intervened this weekend to beat back a jihadi offensive in Mali that on Monday he took me to buy a French flag to mount next to the Malian flag on the dashboard in his taxi. “If you had given me a French flag nine months [...]

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Inside the mind of an octopus

by Attention to the Unseen 12.07.2012

Sy Montgomery: “Meeting an octopus,” writes [professor of philosophy, Peter] Godfrey-Smith, “is like meeting an intelligent alien.” Their intelligence sometimes even involves changing colors and shapes. One video online shows a mimic octopus alternately morphing into a flatfish, several sea snakes, and a lionfish by changing color, altering the texture of its skin, and shifting [...]

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On the road — updated

by Paul Woodward 01.27.2012

From Saturday through Thursday Saturday? I will be on the road driving from North Carolina to Illinois and back. I will be updating the site as circumstances allow. During this period, I will be posting fewer news items and more of the free-ranging items that I’m now clustering under my catchall — attention to the [...]

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