Guam mulls going its own way
Political leaders in Guan are seeking liberty from Washington © AFP/US Navy/File Alan D. Monyelle AFP HAGATNA, Guam (AFP) – Almost 70 years after US…
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Peter Van Buren, How Not to Withdraw from Iraq
The Fall of Baghdad – Wiki Image Peter Van Buren TomDispatch Iraq? Where’s that? Most Americans no longer seem to know and evidently could care…
Panetta: Escalate Shadow Wars, Expand Black Ops
Wiki Commons Spencer Ackerman Wired Icing Osama bin Laden? Just the beginning, once Leon Panetta makes it to the Pentagon. At his Thursday confirmation hearing…
One in four US hackers ‘is an FBI informer’
The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals Ed Pilkington Guardian The…
India approves $4bn Boeing military deal
© AFP/File Pierre Verdy AFP NEW DELHI (AFP) – India on Monday cleared a more than $4.0-billion deal to buy military transport planes from Boeing…
Gates vows new weapons for US role in Asia
Gates: US military would maintain a “robust” presence across Asia © AFP Roslan Rahman AFP SINGAPORE (AFP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday vowed…
Army judges weigh military trials for civilians
Guantanamo Tribunal AFP image Mark Sherman Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Army judges are weighing a question that hasn’t cropped up in decades: whether…
War is the new normal
“On an average day, eighteen veterans of our nation’s armed forces take their own lives…” Bill Boyarsky Afghanistan – Wiki Image TruthDig Remember the war,…
US Troops discuss “Drop-Weapons”
Editor’s Note: Is US law enforcement also using drop weapons here at home to cover up disastrous home invasions such as the murder of Jose…
US, Russia nuclear arsenal data released
Victory Day Parade in Moscow in 2008 © AFP/File Yuri Kadobnov AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States has 30 percent more deployed long-range ballistic…
The Heavy Cost of the Bush-Obama Murder Rampage
Dees Illustration Anthony Gregory Lew Rockwell In every election cycle, the politicians love to pretend there is a difference among them on the foreign policy…
Love the Men, Hate the Machine
Silver Shield Don’t Tread on Me We are told every Memorial Day to remember those that gave their lives for your freedom. This is so…
US lawmakers pass $690 billion Pentagon bill
The US House of Representatives passed a $690 billion Pentagon budget Thursday © AFP/DOD/File AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US House of Representatives passed a…
US defense cuts mean ‘hard decisions’: Gates
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates © AFP/Pool/File Chip Somodevilla AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that fiscal pressures on the US…