Countries Look to Robot Armies for Border Defense

The House Homeland Security Committee will meet Thursday to discuss the use of unmanned aircraft to patrol America's borders.

The number of drones deployed on such missions has been growing in recent years, and lawmakers have begun to demand that the Pentagon provide even more along the U.S.-Mexican border.

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http://www.aolnews.com/tech/article/countries-look-to-robot-armies-for-border-defense/19552505

Jacob Heilbrunn Obamas Fools Gold in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has overnight turned into the "Saudi Arabia" of precious metals, has it? But even if Afghanistan does turn out to possess everything the Pentagon claims it does, the sad truth is these resources are, more often than not, a curse for Third World nations that harbor them.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/obamas-fools-gold-in-afgh_b_611275.html