Memo To POTUS---Eyes Only: From The Department of Pre-War Planning And Threat Exaggeration
• by Danny SchechterHere are excerpts from a “secret document” whose authenticity cannot be authenticated, perhaps because I wrote it myself.
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Here are excerpts from a “secret document” whose authenticity cannot be authenticated, perhaps because I wrote it myself.
'The hungriest market is the nation's 19,000 law enforcement agencies'
Armed groups of Syria’s opposition from the rebel force known as the Syrian Liberation Army get more and more weapons from abroad
The folks in Utah have some cajones! Check out this billboard causing a ruckus that just went up.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she believed that the Syrian rebels would be able to arm themselves better in the future
The resumption of US drone strikes against Pakistan’s tribal areas last month came amid rumors of ongoing negotiations with the Pakistani government
The administration recently released its 2013 budget proposal, and conservatives are correctly alarmed that it calls for unprecedented spending and continued annual deficits exceeding $1 trillion.
Most Pentagon watchers are saying the cuts are mild. The proof? Not even military personnel and defense contractors are crying foul. The mood struck this week by Obama’s defense budget stands in sharp contrast to what was expected just a few weeks ag
The Navy came very, very close to losing its futuristic gun that shoots bullets with a giant electric charge. But while a congressional committee recommended axing the Electromagnetic Railgun in June, the program survived
An incredible report, recently presented to law enforcement officials and branches of the United States armed forces, reveals how recent neuroscience breakthroughs can lead to the use of futuristic thought-controlled weaponry.
The bedrock of the American republic is fracturing. The Constitution is being eviscerated by government leaders and their corporate allies. The system of checks and balances embodied in that document, the mechanism which prevents the United States fr
The man now in charge of buying weapons for the U.S. military said that the stealth F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -- one of the most expensive defense programs in U.S. history at three quarters of $1 trillion -- was put in production so prematurely the e
What force drives our continuous state of war? In 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned in his farewell address that a "military-industrial complex" was acquiring national influence that could cause a fundamental shift in the way the United Sta
Although the speech is best-known for its warning about the growing military-industrial complex, it also contained warnings about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
I as a Pastor need to speak against this evil ... it is my duty ... and I am calling out the clergy in this nation to speak up and out against this wickedness. I just watched this video which would explain why so many of our kids are choosing to end
At the same time that President Obama is reducing the number of troops in Iraq, he’s replacing them with military contractors at far greater expense to the taxpayer. In this way, the war on terror is privatized, the American economy is bled dry and t
The United States Air Force's (USAF) top resident genius, Dr. Mark Maybury, wants to create a sensor network allowing operators to read the "hearts and minds" of enemies and predict future wars in advance.
America’s troops may be returning home from Iraq, but contrary to President Obama’s assertion that “the tide of war is receding,” we’re far from done paying the costs of war.
Rare video 1961 speech President & WWII General Dwight D Eisenhower warns us of the New World Order aka Military Industrial Complex.
The government is spending more on war than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare, and safety. There are more than 260,000 private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than the number of ground troops in both countries.
Though Americans far and away identify economic problems as the biggest issue facing the nation, according to Gallup, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has been gaining support by talking about the need to restrict the military industrial complex and end what he
CACI International Inc announced today that it has been awarded one of 6 prime positions on the DLITE contract to support the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). With this new work, CACI will provide translation and interpretation s
Israel is moving forward with plans to hold the largest-ever missile defense exercise in its history this spring amid Iranian efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.The commander of the US’s Third Air Force visited Israel to finalize plans for the upcomin
A top executive at Lockheed Martin recently worked with lobbyists for Bahrain to place an Op-Ed defending the nation’s embattled regime in the Washington Times — but the newspaper did not reveal the role of the regime’s lobbyists to its readers.
American politics is typically a grimy business of horses traded and pork delivered. Political speech, for its part, tends to be formulaic and eminently forgettable.
Faced with defense budget reductions, the Boeing Co. announced Wednesday it will close its defense plant in Wichita by the end of 2013, moving future aircraft maintenance, modification and support to its plant in San Antonio, Texas, and engineering
If the cuts are made, New York would lose more than 26,000 defense contract jobs. In addition, 2,707 small businesses would be harmed — including 370 minority group-owned and 935 female-owned businesses. Also imperiled are 423 veteran-owned small bus
A Special Study Group of 15 men whose identities were to remain secret and that it was not intended to be made public. It details the analyses of a government panel which concludes that war, or a credible substitute for war, is necessary if governmen
The Missile Defense Agency today awarded a team led by Boeing and its strategic partner Northrop Grumman a $3.48 billion, 7-year contract for the continued development and sustainment of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system.
Everywhere you go at the moment, the radio, TV, the Internet are full of establishment Republicans—the morons who enthusiastically helped the Democrats get us into this mess—attacking what they call Ron Paul's "isolationism", a slur first invented by