{"id":19681,"date":"2013-05-05T19:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T03:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=19681"},"modified":"2013-05-05T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T04:28:26","slug":"antiwar-com-newsletter-may-3-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/antiwar-com-newsletter-may-3-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiwar.com Newsletter | May 5, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>IN THIS ISSUE<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> \t\tTop News<\/li>\n<li> \t\tOpinion and analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> \t<b>This week&rsquo;s top news:<\/b><\/p>\n<p> \t<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/05\/02\/hagel-us-considering-arming-syria-rebels\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Hagel: US Considering Arming Syria Rebels<\/b><\/a>: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel became the first US official to admit that the administration is &quot;rethinking&quot; its previous decision not to arm Syria&rsquo;s rebels directly, though he insisted that no decision had been made and this was just one option being considered.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> \t<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/05\/02\/pentagon-report-north-korea-still-trying-to-make-nuke-to-reach-us\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Pentagon Report: North Korea Still Trying to Make Nuke to Reach US<\/b><\/a>: A new Pentagon report on North Korea, coming weeks after everyone was seemingly all North Korea&rsquo;d out, comes with the same ominous but ultimately vague warning that the nation is still &quot;working&quot; on a nuclear missile to reach the United States.<\/p>\n<p> \t<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/05\/02\/report-netanyahu-fears-us-on-board-with-arab-leagues-peace-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Report: Netanyahu Fears US On Board With Arab League&rsquo;s Peace Plan<\/b><\/a>: Reports in the Israeli press now say Netanyahu is openly expressing concern to his aides that the US might be on board with Arab League&rsquo;s &quot;land-swap&quot; peace proposal.<\/p>\n<p> \t<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/05\/01\/boots-on-the-ground-first-us-troops-arrive-for-mali-war\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Boots on the Ground: First US Troops Arrive for Mali War<\/b><\/a>: US ground troops have been assigned to &quot;liaison support&quot; for French and African troops in Mali. Officials say so far there are only &quot;about 10&quot; troops involved, but the number could grow as the war drags on.<\/p>\n<p> \t<a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/force-feeding-gitmo-hunger-strikers-violates-international-law\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>UN: Force Feeding Gitmo Hunger Strikers Violates International Law<\/b>:<\/a><b><\/b>President Obama this week defended the US&rsquo;s policy of force feeding detainees in Guantanamo Bay who are protesting their due process-free indefinite detention by going on a hunger strike. But UN human rights officials say it amounts to torture.<\/p>\n<p> \t<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/05\/02\/us-watchdog-afghan-military-shrinking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>US Watchdog: Afghan Military Shrinking<\/b><\/a>: Though the Pentagon&rsquo;s own report claimed the October 2012 goal of getting the Afghan military up to 352,000 members was met, a new report today from the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) confirms that they didn&rsquo;t.<\/p>\n<p> \t<b>Opinion and Analysis:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> \t\tJustin Raimondo wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2013\/04\/28\/imperial-america-and-the-end-of-progressivism\/\" target=\"_blank\">the controversy<\/a> over San Francisco&rsquo;s gay pride parade and Bradley Manning, the help that the <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2013\/04\/30\/tamerlan-tsarnaev-and-the-penumbra-of-terror\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tsarnaev brothers had<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2013\/05\/02\/liberty-in-the-age-of-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\">liberty in the age of terrorism<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> \t\tKelley Vlahos <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/vlahos\/2013\/04\/29\/jeremy-scahills-dirty-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed<\/a> Jeremy Scahill&rsquo;s new book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/156858671X\/antiwarbookstore\" target=\"_blank\">Dirty Wars<\/a><\/i>.<\/li>\n<li> \t\tIvan Eland <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/eland\/2013\/04\/30\/avoid-drumbeat-to-escalate-in-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">urged<\/a> the US to avoid the drumbeat to escalate the Syria war.<\/li>\n<li> \t\tPhil Giraldi dug into the &quot;idiocy&quot; of the <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/giraldi\/2013\/05\/01\/kristol-clear\/\" target=\"_blank\">neocon warmongering<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> \t\tSean A. McElwee wrote about war propaganda and censorship in the <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/sean-a-mcelwee\/2013\/04\/28\/propaganda-and-censorship-the-hollywood-industrial-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Industrial Complex<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> \t\tSteve Breyman reported on the most dangerous waste of your tax dollars this year: <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/breyman\/2013\/04\/30\/the-profligate-nuclear-pentagon\/\" target=\"_blank\">the B61 nuclear bomb<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> \t\tThomas Knapp uncovered <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/thomas-knapp\/2013\/04\/30\/chemical-weapons-hypocrisy-wmd-for-we-but-not-for-thee\/\" target=\"_blank\">the hypocrisy<\/a> of the West&rsquo;s chemical weapons gripe with Syria.<\/li>\n<li> \t\tJohn Glaser argued that arming the Syrian rebels is <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/a-terrible-idea-arming-the-syrian-rebels\/\" target=\"_blank\">a terrible idea<\/a> and also dipped into <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/the-isolationist-slur-and-the-foreign-policy-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\">the &quot;isolationist&quot; debate<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> \t\tLucy Steigerwald wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/the-inevitability-of-drones-in-the-u-s-and-abroad\/\" target=\"_blank\">the inevitability of domestic drones<\/a> and Obama&rsquo;s rare <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/obama-remembers-gitmo-exists-says-its-not-necessary-for-american-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\">comments on Guantanamo Bay<\/a> detainees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<p>Support Antiwar.com!<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Antiwar.com recently added Bitcoin to the many ways you can help support our work. 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