Article 1M7C2 The US has spent $122B training foreign cops and soldiers in 150+ countries, but isn't sure who

The US has spent $122B training foreign cops and soldiers in 150+ countries, but isn't sure who

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Cory Doctorow
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More than 71 US agencies -- mostly under the DoD and State Department -- run expensive, unaudited, chaotic, overlapping military and police training programs in more than 150 countries on every continent except Antarctica, with no real oversight and only pro-forma checks on the recipients of this training to ensure that they aren't human rights abusers or war criminals. (more")

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