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B-52 crashes in California

When the Bomber Falls, the Institution SpeaksThe Real SubjectA U.S. Air Force B-52 went down on takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base. That is the only verified fact that matters at first pass: a strategic bomber, operated by the world’s most heavily funded military institution, failed before it even got airborne. The source offers no crew status, no casualty count, no cause. It does, however, reveal the machinery of power that owns the event: the Air Force, the base command, and the broader national-security state that keeps aging bombers flying as if longevity were a substitute for…

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