transparency US official backs Marines' request to classify photos of forces urinating on Taliban corpses Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments": a long-awaited Handmaid's Tale sequel fulfills its promise Cory Doctorow
afghanistan Afghanistan: U.S. drone kills 30 farm workers sitting around a campfire after pine nut harvest Xeni Jardin
guns Apple and Google ordered by U.S. to provide names, phone, other data on 10,000+ users of this gun scope app Xeni Jardin
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trump Cambridge Analytica pleads guilty, faces the first in a probable series of criminal convictions Cory Doctorow
afghanistan Trump Afghanistan plan? More air strikes likely, and training Afghan air force Xeni Jardin
class war Blackwater founder and DeVos war-criminal sibling Trump should install merc-backed viceroy in Afghanistan Cory Doctorow
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Business Taliban condemn Pakistan city's first McDonald's: "we don't even consider it as a food." Cory Doctorow
war US warplane shot at survivors fleeing Doctors Without Borders hospital bombing, MSF reports Xeni Jardin