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Is There an Emerging Military Drone Complex?
MQ-9 Reaper in Afghanistan (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson) We often think about approaches toward security as a matter of government policy, set by those in executive or appointed...
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Kim III: Year One
Kim Jong-Un one year ago, when elected First Secretary of the Korean Workers’ Party (from China People’s Daily). On Wednesday, in the midst of the growing international missile tensions, the North...
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Manning in Maryland
Bradley Manning walking to the court on the first day of the trial (from El País). Yesterday began in the Fort Meade base in Maryland the military trial against Bradley Manning for accessing classified...
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Old and New Drug Wars
Miguel Ángel Treviño when presented to the media after his detention (from El Universal). With a lot of pump, on Monday the Mexican government announced the capture of Miguel Ángel Treviño, a.k.a....
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Sugar Missiles
Raúl Castro with a missile-shaped nose. The caption reads “Our weapons are peaceful and sweet” (Drawing by Aristides. Retrieved from @yoanisanchez) The previous week emerged what seemed to be an...
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The Phantom of Liberty
USS Gravely, reportedly deployed and ready for an eventual attack against Syria (archive photo from El Pais). After accusations of chemical weapons being used in the conflict in Syria, the...
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Terrorism in Egypt?
Damage left by a bomb attack against Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim’s car (from The New York Times). Yesterday, Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim was the target of a bomb attack...
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The Magic Mountain
A session of the Montreux, Switzerland, conference on Syria in a hotel of the town (from BBC). On Wednesday, a long-expected international conference backed by the United Nations began in Montreux,...
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Security by the Commons
Federal and state authorities, along the leaders of vigilante groups, after the signature of the agreement formalizing the operations of self-defense groups in the Mexican state of Michoacán (from La...
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Good-bye Chapito
Hundreds of people marching in Culiacan, Sinaloa asking not to extradite El Chapo drug lord. (Source: Reuters) Joaquin Guzman-Loera alias “El Chapo” (or ‘Shorty’) was finally caught by a Mexican navy...
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