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Intelligence: Airbase 201 In Africa
Strategy Page· 3 days agoJune 29, 2019: After five years of negotiations, followed by years of construction delays, the new American airbase in Niger has been completed. Called Airbase 201, it cost $110 million and ...
Strategic Weapons: Orbital Anxieties Proliferate
Strategy Page· 4 days agoDecember 20, 2017: The United States has apparently moved ahead with reviving its Cold War era hypersonic glide vehicle ballistic missile warheads. In late 2017 the U.S. revealed ...
Christopher Bollen’s Cairo Thriller
The Nation· 20 hours agoWhen I was growing up in Cairo in the 1990s, my great-aunts frequently talked about people who had been “suicided”—murdered by security agents of the ...
Procurement: Risen From The Grave
Strategy Page· 6 days agoMay 31, 2019: For the second time in history the U.S. Air Force has restored a retired B-52 bomber to active service. This was done by using one of the dozen retired B-52s stored at AMARC (Aerospace ...
A Disaster of the U.S. Military’s Own Making
New York Times· 2 days agoAustin Valley had just arrived at his Army base in Poland, last March, when he knocked on his buddy Adrian Sly’s door to borrow a knife. A boyish-looking...
Scorching heat, wildfires to start the week; ‘Inside Out 2’ wins at box office | Hot off the Wire...
Rapid City Journal· 4 days agoThe United States is bracing for chaotic weather this week, as the South is set to experience another heat wave following a short respite from searing temperatures earlier ...
Analysis | Like doctors, more nurse practitioners are heading into specialty care
Washington Post· 4 days agoToday I’m writing about how nurse practitioners are turning up in specialties like dermatology and...
Tobacco-like warning label for social media sought by U.S. surgeon general who asks Congress to act
MPR News· 3 days agoThe U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New ...
AP News Summary at 1:48 p.m. EDT
Washington Times-Herald· 4 days agoJERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it is pausing fighting during daytime hours along a route in southern Gaza to...
From the Archives: African Khat (1978)
High Times· 2 days agoKhat: the cocaine of Africa—the mint green leaf of the shrub Catha edulis—is a way of life in the new nation of Djibouti and the ancient land of Yemen. Grown on large farms resembling old-world ...
