Bombs and choppers used during military exercises startle New Orleans residentshttp://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl020409cbbombs.1da02ce4.html US withdraws charges against USS Cole suspecthttp://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090206/ts_afp/usattacksjusticeguantanamo_20090206102936 Accepting the end of the U.S. empirehttp://www.daily.pk/world/americas/9414-accepting-the-end-of-the-us-empire.html Etzioni: “no philosophy that better describes Obama’s position than communitarianism”http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304687464&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter State Brainwashing Children To “Re-Educate” Their Parents For Green Dictatorshiphttp://prisonplanet.com/ Peter Singer’s Wired for War has been praised by everyone from former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake to Jon Stewart as a definitive look at the growing use of robots on the battlefield. Just before his talk at TED 2009, we chatted with Singer, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and Danger Room contributor, about the rise of the machines. http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/peter-singers-w.html