Slum Fights: The Pentagon Plans for a New 100 Years' War |
| Published: October 12, 2007, 10:01 am |
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Slum Fights: The Pentagon Plans for a New 100 Years' Warby Nick Turse and Tom EngelhardtTomDispatchHow can we understand our world, if we have hardly a clue about the mini-worlds where planning for our future takes place? Just the other day, the Washington Post had one of the odder reports of the year. According to journalist Rick Weiss, demonstrators at protests in Washington DC and elsewhere have been independently reporting large "dragonflies" (with a bizarre "row of spheres, the size of small berries, attached along the tails") hovering near their rallies. ("'I'd never seen anything like it in my life,' the Washington lawyer said. 'They were large for dragonflies. I thought, is that mechanical, or is that alive?'")Is this the micro-equivalent of UFO madness? Folie? Philip K. Dick? Are these actual dragonflies, which do look robotic, or advanced "spy drones" loosed by some unnamed agency in search of homeland-security troublemakers?As a matter of fact, militarized insects have been [ Full article ] |
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