Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

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The ways of war are changing. Artificial intelligence is used to bomb families in Gaza. Flying drones are deployed to track down refugees on the US-Mexico border. But the biggest change is the one we talk about the least: the privatization of war. From Yemen to Sudan, Syria to Nigeria, tens of thousands of guns […]

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Crossposted from AlterNet: Do you think you have what it takes to be a Blackwater operative? You can soon find out, thanks to the video game Blackwater, the latest addition to Xbox 360’s virtual warfare collection, set for an October 25 release. For just $50, Blackwater will provide gamers ages 13 and up the opportunity to join one of the world’s […]

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