As the New York Times reports, former Iraqi prime minister and U.S. sock puppet Iyad Allawi's apparent victory in his country's recent election sets up a "period of uncertainty" that may "threaten plans to withdraw American troops." Gen. Ray...
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." - President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1961 Michael D. "Mike" Furlong has, to all...
It's shameful enough for the country that spends more on defense than the rest of the world combined to hire mercenaries to fight its woebegone wars; the mercenaries we hire are hooligans who we kicked out of our overpriced military. As Tim McGlone of The...
Individuals in the upper level of the Pentagon and media polloi are beginning to commit a cardinal sin. They're blurting the truth – sort of. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military's senior spin surgeon (his father was a Hollywood...
As journalist Gareth Porter said in a recent interview with Real News, Gen. Stanley McChrystal's offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan, is "more of an effort to shape public opinion in the United States than to shape the politics of the future of Afghanistan."...
The tallest Arab ever wanted dead or alive by a president of the United States is still at large. Either that or he's dead. Again. We've been hearing from intelligence sources and the media that bin Laden is dead for a long time. How dead can one evildoer get? In July...
