BY DAN FROOMKIN Powerful, unaccountable, and operating far in the shadows, the Lords of Secrecy, as author Scott Horton calls them, are real, and they are in charge of our national security state. Horton, a lawyer, […]
Yesterday, NBC’s Chuck Todd opened a “Meet the Press” segment by calling U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq “wars now without an end.” “The U.S. now seems to be in a semi-permanent state of war,” added […]
Reports indicate Obama will nominate Carter as new defense secretary. Succeeding Chuck Hagel. “(B)arring any last minute complications.” According to unnamed administration officials. He tops the short list. The Pentagon’s Stars and Stripes publication said […]
Source: Voltaire Network The F-35 is the largest weapons program in history. This multi-role aircraft is built by Lockheed Martin with Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems as major partners. It should equip the armies of […]
John Vachon General store and post office in Little Creek, Delaware Jul 1938 Boy, what a day so far; hard to keep up. tell me, is it just me, or has the US really started another round […]
Be a good soldier and give in to the military industrial complex By WILLIAM J. ASTORE, TOMDISPATCH.COM “Full Metal Jacket” (1987) This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. I spent four college years in the Reserve Officers’ Training […]
The consequences are measured in lives, limbs and cash. It was 1971 when President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one in the United States.” With those words, Nixon ushered in the “war […]
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