Watch out, that freighter may actually be a warship

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It is debateable whether much of what comes out of Hollywood these days passes for art, but whatever it is, life certainly seems to be intent on imitating it. Here’s a fascinating, although weirdly chilling, story about how the US is building, or converting, a fleet of cargo ships that are actually mobile anti-terror bases which, because of the absence of international law on the high seas, are great for all that rendition activity the country’s special services like to ...