{"id":18663,"date":"2013-03-08T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T21:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=18663"},"modified":"2013-03-08T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T21:27:56","slug":"antiwar-com-newsletter-march-8-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/08\/antiwar-com-newsletter-march-8-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiwar.com Newsletter | March 8, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IN THIS ISSUE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style:disc\">\n<li>\n\t\t<strong>Thank You<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tTop News<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tOpinion and analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Antiwar.com is very thankful for our loyal readers. We have made our goal for the Winter Pledge Drive. &nbsp;Thank you. &nbsp;We could not do this without you!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\n\t<strong>This week&#39;s top news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/03\/07\/brennan-confirmed-after-rand-pauls-anti-drone-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brennan Confirmed After Rand Paul&rsquo;s Anti-Drone Filibuster<\/a>: After it was delayed in a historic filibuster led by Senator Rand Paul that drew unprecedented attention to the administration&rsquo;s expansive powers in the drone war, the vote count was 63-34. Rand Paul voted against confirmation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/03\/05\/us-general-warns-against-sending-weapons-to-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">US General Warns Against Sending Weapons to Syria<\/a> : Speaking to Congress, Centcom Commander General James Mattis warned against plans to arm the assorted rebel factions in Syria, saying that the situation is &ldquo;too complex&rdquo; to send weapons and that the US couldn&rsquo;t count on those weapons not ending up in the hands of US enemies.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/pentagon-ran-torture-centers-in-iraq-atrocities-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon Ran Torture Centers in Iraq, Atrocities Revealed<\/a>: &ldquo;The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the &lsquo;dirty wars&rsquo; in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centers to get information from insurgents,&rdquo; The Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/mar\/06\/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-link\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/03\/05\/centcom-chief-rejects-diplomacy-says-iran-must-be-brought-to-its-knees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centcom Chief Rejects Diplomacy, Says Iran Must Be &lsquo;Brought to Its Knees&rsquo;<\/a>: Central Command leader Gen. James Mattis insisted sanctions are not successful against Iran, and suggested that diplomacy had been all but useless, insisting that Iran&rsquo;s &ldquo;history of deceit&rdquo; meant they could never be trusted at any rate.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/03\/06\/sequestration-navy-withdraws-ships-from-drug-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sequestration: Navy Withdraws Ships From Drug War<\/a>: The first visible result of sequestration was seen from the US Navy today, with the announcement that they are suspending the deployments of a pair of frigates to the Caribbean as part of a drug war operation.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/03\/06\/unicef-study-israel-abuses-palestinian-child-detainees\/\" target=\"_blank\">UNICEF Study: Israel Abuses Palestinian Child Detainees<\/a>: The report says children are routinely blindfolded, shackled with painful restraints, and face physical violence, death threats, and threats of sexual assault against themselves or a family member.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Opinion and Analysis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style:disc\">\n<li>\n\t\tJustin Raimondo wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2013\/03\/07\/standwithrand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rand Paul&rsquo;s historic anti-drone filibuster<\/a>, and the Libertarian Republican heritage <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2013\/03\/03\/the-libertarian-republican-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part I<\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2013\/03\/05\/the-libertarian-republican-heritage-part-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part II<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tKelley B. Vlahos <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/vlahos\/2013\/03\/04\/nick-turse-exhuming-vietnam\/\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed historian Nick Turse<\/a>on his new book about US atrocities in Vietnam, and <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/finally-mainstream-compares-coin-to-waterloo\/\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>the mainstream criticism of COIN doctrine.<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tIvan Eland <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/eland\/2013\/03\/05\/rodmania-in-north-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\">analyzed<\/a>Dennis Rodman&rsquo;s visit to the North Korean dictator.<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tPhil Giraldi <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/giraldi\/2013\/03\/06\/talking-turkey-about-zionism\/\" target=\"_blank\">examined<\/a>the Turkish PM&rsquo;s recent comments on Zionism.<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJohn Glaser wrote about the Obama administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/afghanistan-obamas-war-of-choice-for-the-sake-of-shallow-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">war of choice in Afghanistan<\/a>, their claimed power <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/05\/obama-administration-yes-we-can-kill-americans-on-us-soil\/\" target=\"_blank\">to kill US citizens<\/a>, and their <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/us-saudi-arabia-stand-united-for-democracy-in-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">mischievous strategy in Syria<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tKevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/05\/north-korea-and-the-united-states-will-the-real-aggressor-please-stand-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">argued<\/a>the real aggressor is the US, not North Korea.<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNorman Solomon <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/gun-background-check-on-pentagon\/\" target=\"_blank\">satirized<\/a>a gun background check on the Pentagon.<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tThe Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/naming-the-dead-five-stories-of-drone-war-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\">five stories of victims of the drone war<\/a>, a part of their Naming the Dead project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN THIS ISSUE Thank You Top News Opinion and analysis Antiwar.com is very thankful for our loyal readers. We have made our goal for the Winter Pledge Drive. &nbsp;Thank you. &nbsp;We could not do this without you! This week&#39;s top news: Brennan Confirmed After Rand Paul&rsquo;s Anti-Drone Filibuster: After it was delayed in a historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,247],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-week-in-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18667,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663\/revisions\/18667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18663"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}