Addicted to the Warfare State
informationliberation - 12th Jul 2010by William Norman Grigg Which is the more serious threat to life, liberty and Property: The illicit violence practiced by a handful of furtive armed Drug Smugglers in the Arizona desert, or the increasingly brazen militarization of U.S. Law E…
Read more >>William Astore, Operation Enduring War
TomDispatch - 8th Jul 2010
[ Note for TomDispatch readers: My offer of a signed copy of my new book, The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s , in return for a contribution of $75 or more resulted in a remarkable outburst of generosity on your…
Read more >>Coalition general open to strategy change
Sydney Morning Herald - 30th Jun 2010Washington: The General who is about to take charge of the coalition campaign in Afghanistan says he is willing to reconsider the war's battlefield rules that Troops on the ground claim are putting forces at risk. While he backed the current war…
Read more >>If McChrystal’s Out, What Should Change in Afghanistan? A Guide
The Washington Independent - 23rd Jun 2010Gen. Stanley McChrystal (Oscar Matatquin/ZUMA Press) President Obama and Gen. Stanley McChrystal began their decisive one-on-one talk in the Oval Office at 9:51 a.m., according to ABC’s Jake Tapper . Whether or not McChrystal loses his com…
Read more >>If McChrystal's Out, What Should Change in Afghanistan? A Guide
The Washington Independent - 23rd Jun 2010Gen. Stanley McChrystal (EPA/ZUMApress.com) President Obama and Gen. Stanley McChrystal began their decisive one-on-one talk in the Oval Office at 9:51 a.m., according to ABC’s Jake Tapper . Whether or not McChrystal loses his command, al…
Read more >>Pentagon's Intelligence Authority Widens
Washington Post - 16th Jun 2010The Pentagon's newest Counterterrorism agency, charged with protecting Military facilities and personnel wherever they are, is carrying out Intelligence collection, analysis and operations within the United States and abroad, according to a Penta…
Read more >>Congress to Gates: Screw You. Again.
Danger Room - 20th May 2010
The U.S. Military is bracing for lean Years, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has warned that the past decade’s “ gusher of Defense Spending ” is coming to an end. But you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the Hous…
Read more >>Little progress on installing electronic surveillance systems in Afghanistan
Washington Post - 13th May 2010
Nine months after The Army's U.S. Central Command formally declared that there was an "urgent need" for sophisticated electronic Surveillance systems to be installed throughout Afghanistan to protect U.S. forward operating bases, little…
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