Search Results for: military

In Defense of Foxhole Atheists

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It’s no secret that conservative Christians dominate the U.S. military, but when higher-ups start talking about conversion missions, it’s time to worry. The author meets a group of soldiers who aren’t having it.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Dec 15, 2009
Length: 26 minutes (6,542 words)

Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy

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Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged by a grand-jury investigation, bribery accusations, and the voluntary-manslaughter trial of five ex-employees, set for next month. Lashing back at his critics, the wealthy former navy seal takes the author inside his operation in the U.S. and Afghanistan, revealing the role he’s been playing in America’s war on terror.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Jan 1, 2010
Length: 23 minutes (5,995 words)

Can One Good Man Redeem a Nation for the Sins of Guantánamo?

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As the Obama administration prepares to try the 9/11 plotters in military tribunals, David Iglesias stands at the ready to prosecute them — and maybe just save the legacy of the White House that fired him #Sept11

Author: Tom Junod
Source: Esquire
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,642 words)

Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle

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Obama sips it. Paris Hilton loves it. Mary J. Blige won’t sing without it. How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?

Source: Mother Jones
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 15 minutes (3,943 words)

Neo-Nazis are in the Army now

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Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own regulations and permitting white supremacists to join its ranks.

Source: Salon
Published: Jun 17, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,310 words)