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Is America Growing Itself to Destruction?
America's continuing drive for material well-being has made it the world’s colossus, but it may also contain the seeds of destruction. Will unlimited economic growth be the undoing—not just of America, but the rest of the world? Also, secret DOJ memos on interrogation, and anthropologists at war.
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenAmerica's continuing drive for material well-being has made it the world’s colossus, but it may also contain the seeds of destruction. Will unlimited economic growth be the undoing—not just of America, but the rest of the world? Also, secret DOJ memos on interrogation, and America's latest counterinsurgency weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan--anthropology.
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3 storiesBush Responds to DOJ Terror Memos
Yesterday's New York Times revealed the existence of two previously secret Justice Department memos on techniques for interrogating suspected terrorists. Contrary to public statements calling torture " abhorrent ," they explicitly authorized head-slapping, simulated drowning and exposure to extreme cold.
Read the story6 minDo We Have Too Much?
America's continuing drive for material well-being has made it the world's colossus, but it may also contain the seeds of destruction. That sounds like fire-and-brimstone preaching, but it's also a warning from pragmatic experts on energy independence and global warming.
Read the story35 minAnthropologists Help Military in Afghanistan, Iraq
The Pentagon has deployed some very different kinds of soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Military officers say that anthropologists and other social scientists are making their jobs easier.
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