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Op Ed: Top American Legal Authority Says New Pentagon War Manual Reduces Us To Nazi Level

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Francis Boyle, the world-renowned international law expert and professor at the University of Illinois at Champaign, has denounced the Pentagon’s recently released Law of War Manual (LOWM) as an affront to humanity. Boyle, who was the top student of Richard Baxter, the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Judge […]

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Sex, Drugs and Oil; Sordid Tale of Bush Interior Department or SOP?

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One year ago, the US Department of the Interior’s Inspector General issued a damning report on government officials who had taken advantage of their positions to benefit from lucrative contracts with oil company affiliates. Secretary Ken Salazar, who replaced the now infamous Dirk Kempthorne, released the report to the public. However, it is unlikely that

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