In May of last year I noted at this blog reports that an amendment had been slipped into the 2013 NDAA bill that nullified two U.S. laws - the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987 - that ban domestic propaganda. This month marks the...
So the planned furloughs for some 650,000 civilian workers at the Department of Defense have begun. Roughly speaking, this will mean about a 20 percent cut in each paycheck until September. This is supposed to save the Pentagon $1.8 billion, which is a drop in the...
Let's dissect a headline: Pentagon: Iran will soon have nuclear missiles capable of striking US Here's the true parts: 1. Iran is a country that exists 2. The Pentagon is a place that says lots of nonsensical things If we're realistic about examining the "threat" of...
You won't hear it put this way by anyone in Washington, but the main reason cuts to the defense budget are worrying officials is that they make it more difficult to police the world. In Foreign Affairs, Michael O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel suggest a cost-saving measure...
Despite new rules put into place by Congress in 2009 prohibiting the use of open air trash-burning pits on U.S overseas bases -- yes, the same pits that countless numbers of Iraq and Afghanistan vets, and their doctors, say have caused irreparable harm to their...
We in ComeHomeAmerica (www.ComeHomeAmerica.US) condemn our government’s war on Syria, prosecuted first with sanctions, then with covert support through “allies” like the dictatorial petro-monarchies of the Gulf and now with overt provision of arms for the...
There are rumors that the Obama administration is considering a "zero option" in Afghanistan - that is, abandoning plans to leave a significant residual force there to train Afghans, perform special operations against the Taliban, and bolster the enfeebled Afghan...
Mos Def participated in a demonstration of the force-feeding procedures that more than 40 Gitmo detainees on hunger strike are being subjected to everyday. It's less pleasant than you probably imagined. The United Nations has already said this practice amounts to...
Robert Merry at The National Interest laments President Obama's wishy-washy stance on the events in Egypt. Following the second overthrow of the government in as many years, "one might ask where Obama has stood on the momentous questions facing the Egyptian polity in...
Here's a poster being held in Egypt's Tahrir Square: Source here.
