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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Thomas E. Ricks, The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today

Source: Firedoglake, Nov 24 2012, 3:59pm CST

There are two key words to keep in mind when reading Thomas Ricks’s important and eminently readable new book, “The Generals”: accountability and relief. Accountability is what set Ricks out on his investigation of America’s military leaders from World W ...

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Michael Hastings, ‘Rolling Stone’ Contributor, Dead at 33

Source: Global Research  |   Jun 19 2013, 6:17am CDT

Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33. Hastings’ unvarnished ...

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Syria Is Becoming Obama’s Iraq

Source: Global Research  |   Jun 19 2013, 5:52am CDT

In perfect Bush-like fashion, President Obama has invented a bogus pretense for military intervention in yet another Middle East country. The president’s claim that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons — and ...

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Michael Hastings, journalist who helped bring down US general, dies at 33

Source: McClatchy  |   Jun 19 2013, 5:27am CDT

LOS ANGELES — Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in ...

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US reporter who felled Gen McChrystal dies

Source: Ninemsn  |   Jun 18 2013, 11:42pm CDT

Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone journalist whose report ended the career of a top US general, has died in a car crash. Hastings, whose profile of US Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal triggered his 2010 downfall, died in Lo ...

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Michael Hastings, 33, journalist dies in LA crash

Source: LA Observed  |   Jun 18 2013, 8:26pm CDT

We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone. Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers ...

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R.I.P. Michael Hastings

Source: Video Cafe  |   Jun 18 2013, 7:05pm CDT

BuzzFeed is saddened to report that Michael Hastings died in a car accident early this morning in Los Angeles. He was 33. Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement: We are shocked and devastated by the news t ...

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As of Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is two less than the De ...

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Source: The New York Times  |   Jun 18 2013, 12:46pm CDT

BERLIN — A prosecutor in Budapest filed war-crimes charges against a Hungarian man, now 98, who is accused of regularly beating Jewish men, women and children under his supervision and helping to send almost 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Nazi death camps ...

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Bryan Stuckenschmidt, 9, of Omaha examines skulls used in the new forensics lab at Offutt Air Force Base on Monday. Stuckenschmidt's great uncle Spc. Don Grella, the brother of his grandmother Shirley Haase, died ...

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Source: Asia One  |   Jun 18 2013, 11:00am CDT

This photo shows Michael Hastings of Buzzfeed and Rolling Stone attending the Guardian's "Post-Truth Politics and The media's Role" reception and discussion at The LongView Gallery in Washington DC. The fo ...

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