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Category: National Defense

Hillary Clinton testifies before Congress

Republicans land no clear punches while sparring with Clinton over Benghazi

October 22nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

The questions are increasingly badgering, I would even say increasingly vicious… It seems to me that really, the majority simply wish to wear you down.

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Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi

Ousted Benghazi committee staffer: Republicans pursuing ‘partisan investigation’ targeting Hillary Clinton

October 11th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

Ousted Benghazi committee staffer: Republicans pursuing ‘partisan investigation’ targeting Hillary ClintonAn intelligence officer formerly employed by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, who describes himself

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Flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina

The Flooding of America

August 30th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, Public Planning

The Flooding of America The New Republic offers a chronology of major floods in America going back to the publication’s founding, complete with stories from

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Chuck Schumer speaking

MoveOn rips Schumer on Iran, says Dems should find ‘a new leader’

August 6th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

Our country doesn’t need another Joe Lieberman in the Senate, and it certainly doesn’t need him as Democratic leader. — MoveOn Political Action Director Ilya

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Transformers artwork

Humanity shouldn’t make autonomous weapons: an open letter from AI & robotics researchers

July 28th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, Technology

Humanity shouldn’t make autonomous weapons: an open letter from AI & robotics researchers A distinguished group of scientists and researchers involved with physics, computer science,

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The New Yorker takes notice of earthquake science that suggests the Pacific Northwest could be in grave danger

July 20th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, Public Planning

The New Yorker takes notice of earthquake science that suggests the Pacific Northwest could be in grave danger The words Cascadia Subduction Zone may be

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin tells West not to fear Russia

June 6th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

Only an insane person and only in a dream can imagine that Russia would suddenly attack NATO. — Russia’s Vladimir Putin, declaring that the United

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Jeb Bush speaking at a Republican event

Jeb Bush’s claim that Islamic State ‘didn’t exist when my brother was president’ gets four Pinnochios

May 27th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Elections, National Defense, World Community

[T]he Islamic State of Iraq, declared in 2006, was intended to be a sprawling entity like the one we see today. That was its political

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Jeb Bush speaking at a Republican event

Questioned on Iraq invasion, Jeb Bush blunders

May 12th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve National Defense, World Community

Republicans want to distance themselves from [Iraq] without divorcing themselves from it… This was a Republican president, and it never serves the party well to

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Ospreys arrive in Nepal

First U.S. helicopters arrive in Kathmandu to help with Nepal quake relief and recovery

May 3rd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense

A few days ago, after seeing a BBC story that explained Nepal’s desperate need for helicopters, we posted a short editorial here urging the Obama

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U.S. aircrew deliver supplies to Japan

Nepal has a serious shortage of helicopters – so why don’t we send some of ours?

May 1st, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense

According to the BBC, one of the biggest issues hampering Nepal in its efforts to recover from last week’s massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake is a

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Collapsed buildings in Kathmandu, Nepal

American-Nepalese team pulls teenager out of the rubble five days after massive quake

April 30th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense

American-Nepalese team pulls teenager out of the rubble five days after massive quake To say that Nepal has had a rough week would be the

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F-35 Lightning II at Edwards AFB

Hideously expensive F-35 fighter jet runs into yet more problems

April 27th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense

Hideously expensive F-35 fighter jet runs into yet more problems Auditors working on behalf of the United States Congress have concluded that engines made for

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Oil spill cleanup in English Bay

In plain sight: How the Marathassa oil spill took hours to find

April 18th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, Our Environment

In plain sight: How the Marathassa oil spill took hours to find A fuel spill in Vancouver’s picturesque English Bay has raised serious questions about

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F-35 Lightning II at Edwards AFB

Is NATO losing its edge on defense?

April 14th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense

Is NATO losing its edge on defense? The BBC talks to several former military leaders and security analysts who worry that the United States and

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Valerie Plame Wilson

Valerie Plame Wilson eviscerates Judy Miller for “pathetic, self-serving” op-ed

April 7th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

Dear Judy, No one is crediting you with starting the Iraq war. We know you were not actually on the team that took us into

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Large earthquake strikes near Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands

March 29th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Breaking News, National Defense

A large earthquake has just shaken eastern Papua New Guinea and nearby islands, the U.S. Geological Survey is reporting. The magnitude 7.5 quake – which

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Germanwings copilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed Flight #9525

March 26th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense

We are horrified that something of this nature could have been taken place… It is the worst nightmare that anyone can have in our company.

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Rift widens in Republican Party between defense hawks and Norquist acolytes

March 16th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Legislative Advocacy, National Defense

This is a war within the Republican Party… You can shade it any way you want, but this is war. — Senator Lindsey Graham, speaking

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Vice President Joe Biden: Putin’s actions speak louder than his words

February 7th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve National Defense, World Community

Too many times President Putin has promised peace, and delivered tanks, troops, and weapons. So we will continue to provide Ukraine with security assistance, not

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Another day, another pipeline explosion

January 27th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve National Defense, Our Environment

Another day, another pipeline explosion MSNBC: “Rachel Maddow reports on a natural gas pipeline in Brooke County, West Virginia that exploded in a huge fireball,

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