The F22: Toe of the Dragon
President Obama has started his fight with America's great dragon, the military-industrial complex. The toe, in this case, is the F-22, a stealth fighter jet.
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Robert Gates Scores Big Wins On Weapons Cuts
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last? The politically savvy defense secretary scored big legislative wins...
Defense Secretary Scores Spending Cuts, But Not Satisfied: "It Would Be Nice To Win Our Current Wars"
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last? The politically savvy defense secretary scored big legislative wins...
Navy Commander Accuses Miami Herald Reporter Of Sexual Harassment
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
Tensions between journalists and military officials are nothing new. But a bitter series of clashes between a top Navy spokesman and a Miami Herald mi...
Obama Admin. Still Considering Bringing Some Gitmo Detainees To U.S.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top lawyer said Friday that the Obama administration has not abandoned the possibility of transferring some prisoner...
Pentagon Seeks To Overhaul Afghan Prison Where Detainee Abuse Occurred
New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 08.19.2009 | World
A sweeping United States military review calls for overhauling the troubled American-run prison here as well as the entire Afghan jail and judicial sy...
Lawmakers Blast Obama For "No-Visit" Gitmo Policy
ABC News | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
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A Pentagon official Thursday largely refused to answer lawmakers' questions about why members of Congress are prohibited from meeting with Guantanamo ...
Pentagon Won't Ban Tobacco Products In War Zones
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — Smoke 'em if you got 'em. The Pentagon reassured troops Wednesday that it won't ban tobacco products in war zones. Defense official...
Probing the Pentagon: Are Gays Really More Dangerous than Neo-Nazis?
J. Richard Cohen | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
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A neo-Nazi skinhead who wants to obtain weapons and combat training to use in a future, domestic "race war" can most likely continue serving in the US army with impunity.
How Much Does the U.S. Empire Cost?
John Feffer | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
Obama's product -- America -- has taken a beating in the marketplace over the last eight years or so. The president has to do some serious rebranding.
Escalation Scam: Troops in Afghanistan
Norman Solomon | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
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The president has set a limit on the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. For now. That's how escalation works. Ceilings become floors. Gradually.
Harold P. Ford on Robert McNamara in Retrospect
William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
Ford took McNamara to task on several points, but on none more severely than McNamara's complaint that "there were no Vietnam experts" to whom top policymakers could turn for advice.
White House, New York Stock Exchange Among Targets Of Cyber Attack
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — U.S. authorities on Wednesday eyed North Korea as the origin of the widespread cyber attack that overwhelmed government Web sites i...
Gates: Pentagon Considering Easing Don't Ask Don't Tell
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he wants to make the law prohibiting gays from serving openly in the armed forces "more...
Transformative: Le Cinema de Michael Bay
William Bradley | Posted 07.30.2009 | Entertainment
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The fact that it is considered preposterous for a writer to not dismiss Bay's work in the most vehement of terms points up a dramatic disconnect between the critical community and the movie-going audience.
Supreme Court Will Not Hear 9/11 Victims Claims Vs. Saudi Arabia
AP | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue lawsuits against Saudi Arabia and four of its prin...
Why It's Time for LGBT Democrats to Get Over Their Battered Wife Syndrome
Michael Rowe | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics
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What if, instead of giving out a million dollar booty-call, the LGBT donors had suddenly crossed their collective political and economic legs, and told the DNC "No more freebies. Not without that ring."
Got a Minute? Congressman McGovern and 80% of Afghans Need You
Tom Andrews | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
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The question is why the leadership on both sides of the political aisle are so set against an amendment that does what the president himself has said is required in this war torn country.
Its Official! Pentagon Cyber Command Gets Ready to "Stand Up"
Frida Berrigan | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
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It seems to me that the Pentagon, the administration and the military industrial complex are all treating cyberspace like any other battle domain.
Congress Needs to Hear From Us Today on Afghanistan
Tom Andrews | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
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This week Congress is set to authorize $550 billion in defense spending and, with it, an additional $130 billion to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghani...
Will Congress Put Useless Fighter Jets Above America?
Jon Soltz | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
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Congress is about to throw $369 million (on a down-payment of $2 billion) for a dozen F-22 fighter jets that even the Pentagon doesn't want.
McChrystal Really Gets It... Now Has to Deliver
Sarah Holewinski | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
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The incoming US and Allied Forces Commander in Afghanistan has rightly put the "Afghan people" front and center.
The Curious Incident of a US Extradition in the Night-Time
Denis Campbell | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
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In many ways Gary's disease reveals an intellectually and emotionally na�ve child locked in a man's body. There his mind is both his biggest friend and greatest enemy.
Afghan Civilian Casualties Threaten Airstrike Support For Troops: Pentagon
US News | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
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Rising anger over Afghan civilians accidentally killed in U.S. military bombing campaigns has prompted some U.S. officers to issue a stark warning to ...
Pentagon: North Korea Missiles Could Threaten U.S.
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — North Korea's missiles could hit the United States in as few as three years if the reclusive rogue nation continues to ramp up its ...
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