By Noah Shachtman
July 28, 2011
Danger Room blog at Wired.com
ASPEN, Colorado -- Ground the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen...
Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis....
July 14, 2011
By Robert Koehler
Published at Antiwar.com
Leon Panetta, on his first visit to Iraq as secretary of defense last weekend, reached for a Bush moment ten years too late.
"The reason you guys are here...
As of July 1, 2011, this guy is effectively in charge of the entire military for the world's "superpower". Is there some adequate response to this story other than "Oh, my God ... "? Perhaps, "Who's got the suitcase?!" or "Please tell me this is satire." Unbelievable...
by Ray McGovern
Published on Saturday, July 2, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
Yes, that was I standing before the U.S. Embassy in Athens on the eve of the July Fourth weekend holding the American flag in the...
By Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
In August, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder -- under continuous , aggressive prodding by the Obama White House -- announced that three categories...
