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By Imran Garda in Americas on December 4th, 2010
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You shouldn't be reading this but...

We seem to have an innate fascination with secrets.

By Monica Villamizar in Americas on August 8th, 2010
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The first military commission trial of the Obama administration is set to get under way here at the sweltering US military base on the island of Cuba.

Along with 37 other journalists, I've been flown here by the Pentagon to observe and report on this military trial. It is my seventh time here. The mood is even more serious and uptight than normal: five colleagues were banned from Guantanamo earlier this year for publishing the name of an interrogator.

Their media organisations fought back and they were re-admitted. We've all been given new rules that expand the already strict procedures we must follow.

It's almost impossible to take a picture outside two or three locations and all television footage is examined frame-by-frame by a censor for "security" reasons. Agreeing to these rules is a condition for being allowed here.

By Omar Chatriwala in Americas on April 5th, 2010
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder. Photo by Esther Dyson, via Flickr

wikileaks.jpgWikiLeaks, a whistle blowing website run by The Sunshine Press, is due to release today what it says is previously unseen footage of a "Pentagon murder-coverup".

Last month the group said it had decrypted the US military video, which shows many civilians and journalists being killed.

The announcement has generated a lot of buzz for the group, and consequently, a lot of concerns for them too. WikiLeaks says it has been spied on aggressively since the announcement, both by US and Icelandic authorities.

By John Terrett in Americas on February 2nd, 2010
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On Monday February 1, 2010 the Pentagon published a major strategy document known as the Quadrennial Defence Review.
 
The QDR is an every four years assessment of the threats and challenges faced by the US military now and in the future.
 
For decades the Pentagon's been geared up to fight at least two major wars simultaneously ... but that worldview is changing.
 
In its Quadrennial Defence Review, Defence Secretary Robert Gates admitted it's no longer appropriate to speak of major regional conflicts and the military must prepare to take on a multiplicity of threats from terrorists using satellite and cyber technology to a greater number of nuclear armed countries.  He said:
 

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By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on January 17th, 2010
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There appear to be some rising tensions between countries leading the relief efforts in Haiti. We know the US is sending in upwards of 10,000 troops to the country. But since 2004, Brazil’s military has been the commanding force leading the Haiti UN peacekeeping mission, technically referred to as MINUSTAH. Brazil has about 1,700 soldiers in Haiti and commands about another 5,300 UN forces in Haiti.
 
Nelson Jobim, Brazil’s defence minister just came back from Haiti and made a point of that saying Brazil would not voluntarily relinquish any of its command duties. Essentially, what he was saying was that Brazil, not the Pentagon, would continue to lead the UN forces.
 
By Marwan Bishara in Imperium, Americas on January 14th, 2010

What does it say about Washington's ''war on terror'' that dozen and a half people with paper cutters forced hundreds of thousands of Western troops into the battlefields of the "greater Middle East" region;
 
That 100,000 foreign soldiers are bogged down in occupied Afghanistan wondering how many dozens of al-Qaeda operatives have remained, if any;
 
That the most liberal democracy enacted new controversial illiberal laws and unpatriotic practices under its "Patriot Act";
 
That one shoe-bomber has forced millions of people to take off their shoes every time they take a flight;
 
That one underpants-bomber will expose every other traveler in most humiliating of ways;
 

By John Terrett in Americas on January 12th, 2010
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Details have begun emerging of a US Defence Department review of the shooting rampage at the Texas army base in which a Muslim officer allegedly killed thirteen people.
 
The review - parts of which have been obtained by the Associated Press news agency - show superior officers ignored their own worries about Major Nidal Hasan’s extreme views on Islam and inappropriate behaviour.
 
The review's not been made public but already a picture's emerging of the build-up to the November the fifth shootings at Fort Hood.
 
The information was gathered during an internal Pentagon investigation into the killings at the Texas army base and obtained by The Associated Press.
 
By Josh Rushing in Asia on November 30th, 2009
Photos by Josh Rushing

Barack Obama, the US president, will this week announce a new strategy for Afghanistan that is expected to involve more troops and a greater effort to turn responsibility over to Afghans. This, of course, should sound familiar to anyone who has followed the war in Afghanistan. Just last summer, Obama sent thousands of US Marines into Helmand province to provide security for the impending national elections. I embedded with those Marines. 

Embedding clearly has its challenges. I have done it a number of times, both in Iraq and Afghanistan. You only see what the military allows you to see and if things get difficult - and they usually do - you depend on those you are covering to provide for your safety and well-being. That dynamic creates something similar to the Stockholm syndrome. In other words, it may be hard to report critically on the guys that may have to save your life and who are providing you food and water.

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