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March 15, 2010
3/15/10 Filkins & Mazzetti, NYT, Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants
3/15/10 Jackson, BBC, Meet USCybercom: Why the US Is Fielding a Cyber Army
3/15/10 Gutmann, CSM, Afghanistan war: How Taliban tactics are evolving
March 11, 2010
3/11/10 Shaughnessy, CNN, Pentagon trains workers to hack Defense computers
March 10, 2010
3/10/10 Walberg, IntelDaily, Russia, Azerbaijan/Armenia: All roads lead to the Caucasus
March 8, 2010
3/08/10 Porter, IPS, Fiction of Marja as City Was US Information War
March 5, 2010
3/05/10 Lindorff, TruthOut, Afghanistan's My Lai Massacre
3/05/10 Loncraine, BBC, Can rats help clear Africa's landmines?
3/05/10 Gettleman, NYT, U.S. Aiding Somalia in Its Plan to Retake Its Capital
March 4, 2010
3/04/10 Page, Register, US 'Anubis' stealth assassin robo-missile nearly ready
3/04/10 Simpson, BBC, The Cost of War: Disturbing Story of Fallujah's Birth Defects
March 3, 2010
3/03/10 Watch, SouthBay, U.S. Navy Conceals Nuclear Weapons Production in California
March 2, 2010
3/02/10 Kirk, FPIF, The Other Nuclear Survivors
March 1, 2010
3/01/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, America's Permanent War Agenda
3/01/10 O'Connell, IntelDaily, Pentagon's "Full-Spectrum Dominance" Facing Headwinds
3/01/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Military, Homeland Security, Spies on Planned Parenthood, Other Domestic Groups
3/01/10 Foulkes, BBC, Big rise in Afghan child migrants
February 28, 2010
2/28/10 Jaffee, WP, Combat Generation: Drone operators climb on winds of change in the Air Force
2/28/10 Sanger & Shanker, NYT, White House Is Rethinking Nuclear Policy
February 27, 2010
2/27/10 Chatterjee, IPS, DynCorp Oversight in Afghanistan Faulted
February 25, 2010
2/25/10 Cole, Deep Journal, Blackwater: Senate Committee Says the Contractor Is Armed and Dangerous
February 23, 2010
2/23/10 Africa News, U.S troops to train Congo soldiers
2/23/10 Spolar, Huffington, Military Training of Afghan National Police Mired in Contract Dispute
2/23/10 Bryneart, Raw Story, Kucinich Challenges Gates on Civilians Killed in Afghanistan
2/23/10 Schulman, MoJo, Blackwater's Gunrunners
February 22, 2010
2/22/10 AFP, US Lawmakers Push to Phase Out Wartime Contractors
February 21, 2010
2/21/10 AP, Israel Unveils New Drone Fleet that Can Reach Iran
2/21/10 Stroebel, McClatchy, War Game Shows How Attacking Iran Could Backfire
February 19, 2010
2/19/10 McMurray, AP, Beleaguered US to Blow Up Its Chemical Weapons Stockpiles
February 17, 2010
2/17/10 Berger, IPS, POLITICS: Cluster Bomb Ban to Become Law - Without U.S.
2/17/10 Northland, NYT, U.N. Rejects 'Militarization' of Afghan Aid
2/17/10 Berrigan, MoJo, America's Global Weapons Monopoly
February 16, 2010
2/16/10 Drummond, Wired, Darpa Looks to Build Real-Life C3P0
February 15, 2010
2/15/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Marine Base's Ex-Residents, Many Ill, Only Now Learning of Toxic Water
February 12, 2010
2/12/10 McGeogh, SMH, America's Deadly Robots Rewrite the Rules of War
2/12/10 Sirota, ITT, Beyond Budget Brainwashing
February 10, 2010
2/11/10 Reisinger, Cnet,
2/10/10 Ahn & Kirk, FPIF, Democracy Thwarts U.S. Base Plans
February 9, 2010
2/09/10 Drummond, Wired, With Darpa's 'Transparent Earth,' Underground Doesn't Mean Out of Sight
2/09/10 Flanders, GritTV, The F Word: Lifting the Veil on US Troops in Pakistan
2/09/10 Turse, MoJo, America's Shadowy Base World
February 8, 2010
2/08/10 Bowlby, BBC, Can battlefield robots take the place of soldiers?
2/08/10 UPI, More Blackwater Contractors Than Cops In Pakistan's Capitol
2/08/10 Chatterjee, MoJo, Destabilizing Pakistan
February 7, 2010
2/07/10 Al Jazeera, US denies 'direct Taliban contact'
2/07/10 Evans & Norton-Taylor, Guardian, RAF 'relying' on drones in Afghanistan
February 5, 2010
2/05/10 Kim, Deep Journal, U.S. Uses Iran to Globalize Its Defenses, Russia Says
2/05/10 Capaccio, Business Week, Pentagon to Increase Stock of High-Altitude Drones
2/05/10 Scahill, Nation, The Expanding US War in Pakistan
2/05/10 Hayes, Nation, The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget
2/05/10 Landay & Shah, McClatchy, Why are U.S., allies telling Taliban about coming offensive?
2/05/10 Chick, CSM, Romania agrees to host US missile interceptors
February 3, 2010
2/03/10 Walsh, Guardian, Obama's Silent War Shocks Pakistan
February 2, 2010
2/02/10 Cole, ABC News, Same Blackwater, Different Names
January 28, 2010
1/28/10 Hodge, Wired, Pentagon Master Plan: Super-Size My Drone Fleet
January 27, 2010
1/27/10 Van Auken, WSWS, US Marines in Haiti: Back to colonialism
1/27/10 Priest, WP, US Military Teams, Intelligence Deeply Involved in Aiding Yemen on Strikes
1/27/10 Al Jazeera, Plan Considered to Buy off Taliban
1/27/10 Bhala, AlterNet, Military Aid Puts Afghans' Lives at Risk - Report
January 26, 2010
1/26/10 White, WSWS, Criticism mounts over US response to Haiti disaster
1/26/10 Shachtman, Wired, Pentagon Report Calls for Office of 'Strategic Deception'
1/26/10 Williams, Boston Globe, From Books to Boot Camp: College Grads Increasingly Joining Military
1/26/10 Spolar, Huffington Post, Flaws in Iraqi Police Contract Raise Questions About Afghan Effort
January 25, 2010
1/25/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Focus on Haiti: Washington's Militarized Takeover
1/25/10 Schmitt, NYT, U.S. Envoy's Cables Show Concerns on Afghan War Plans
January 23, 2010
1/23/10 Van Auken, WSWS, As US prepares long-term occupation, Haiti's quake victims still without aid
1/23/10 Chulov, Guardian, Legacy of War: Iraq Littered With High Levels of Nuclear and Dioxin Contamination, Study Finds
1/23/10 Al Jazeera, UK halts 'bomb detector' exports
January 22, 2010
1/22/10 Donato, HLLN, Oil in Haiti
1/22/10 Bumiller, NYT, Gates Says Taliban Must Take Legitimate Afghan Role
1/22/10 Dash, CNN, Don't let Twitter, Facebook, Google be the only game in town
1/22/10 Van Auken, WSWS, Haitians dying by the thousands as US escalates military intervention
1/22/10 Shachtman, Wired, Video: Laser Hummer Blasts 50 Bombs
1/22/10 Gupta, Wired, New Hi-Res Flyover of Haiti Will Aid Recovery and Research
1/22/10 FPIF, Africa Policy Outlook 2010
January 21, 2010
1/21/10 Reuters, U.S. to boost Afghanistan civilian presence
1/21/10 Nasaw, Guardian, Arms maker to remove 'biblical' gunsight messages
1/21/10 PSL, A message from the U.S. military: Haitians not welcome
1/21/10 Jones, ProPublica, U.S. Private Security Firms Head to Haiti
1/21/10 Scahill, RebelReports, Defense Secretary Robert Gates Confirms Blackwater in Pakistan
1/21/10 Barnes, LAT, Gates vows closer ties, says Pakistan must fight extremists
1/21/10 Lantier, WSWS, US military operations block relief efforts in Haiti
1/20/10 Press TV, Military Industrial Complex Deploys Pentagon Chief To India
1/20/10 BBC, Video game success may be in the mind, study finds
January 20, 2010
1/20/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Outsourcing War: The Rise of Private Military Contractors
January 19, 2010
1/19/10 Eley, WSWS, US military to enforce state of emergency in Haiti
1/19/10 Shachtman, Wired, CIA Contractor Now Flying Spy Drone Over Haiti (Updated Again)
1/19/10 Moore & Gardham, Telegraph, Ministry of Defence orders 'Bible guns' for soldiers in Afghanistan
1/19/10 Secrecy News, DoD "Clarifies" Doctrine on Psychological Operations
January 18, 2010
1/18/10 McKinley, NYT, Homeless Haitians Told Not to Flee to U.S.
January 17, 2010
1/17/10 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Obama Executive Order Seeks to "Synchronize and Integrate" State and Federal Military Forces
1/17/10 Dawn/Pakistan, Activists Protest Outside CIA Offices Against Drone Strikes
January 16, 2010
1/16/10 Van Auken, WSWS, Haiti: US troops deployed as popular anger mounts
January 15, 2010
1/15/10 Allam, McClatchy, Rarely used flying bomb strikes new targets in Iraq
January 13, 2010
1/13/10 Reuters, Obama to ask for $33 billion for Afghan troop buildup
January 11, 2010
1/11/10 Hareal, Ha'aretz, U.S. to store $800m in military gear in Israel
January 10, 2010
1/10/10 Drew, NYT, Military Is Deluged in Intelligence From Drones
January 8, 2010
1/08/10 Landler, NYT, U.S. Has Few Resources to Face Threats in Yemen
1/07/10 CNN, Two security contractors charged in Afghanistan killings
1/08/10 Hawkley, BBC, International nuclear bank - helping world peace?
January 7, 2010
1/07/10 BBC, US approves Taiwan missile sales
January 6, 2010
1/06/10 CNN, Sources: Suspected drone strikes kill militants in Pakistan
1/06/10 Brown, Asia Times, China's space program poised to surge
1/06/10 Spence, IntelDaily, Wars "R" Us: Making the World Safe for American Domination
1/06/10 Tabuchi, NYT, Survivor of 2 Atomic Bombs Dies at 93
January 5, 2010
1/05/10 Hambling, Wired, Air Force Completes Killer Micro-Drone Project
1/05/10 Schmitt, NYT, Slow Start for Military Corps in Afghanistan
1/05/10 Deen, IPS, Russia, China Sustain Military Toehold in Yemen
January 4, 2010
1/04/10 Lindorff, Public Record, Are U.S. Forces Executing Kids in Afghanistan? Americans Don't Even Know to Ask
January 2, 2010
1/02/10 Deep Journal, Over 700 killed in 44 drone strikes in 2009
January 1, 2010
1/01/10 Davies, SMH, US Aid Tied to Purchase of Arms
December 31, 2009
12/31/09 DemocracyNow, Glenn Greenwald on the Five Wars US Is Fighting in Muslim Countries - 2009 in Perspective
December 30, 2009
12/30/09 Deen, IPS, US Arms Feed Yemen's Gun Culture
12/30/09 Shachtman, Wired, Danger Room's Top 10 Stories From a World Gone Nuts
12/30/09 Dilanian et al, Military Times, Firm employs large number of Pentagon mentors
12/30/09 Copley, IntelDaily, Re-Thinking the Art of Military Planning
12/30/09 McGreal et al, guardian, US plots retaliatory strikes against al-Qaida in Yemen over plane bomber
December 29, 2009
12/29/09 Al Jazeera, Putin warns US over missile defence
12/29/09 Nichols, Nation, Lieberman: How About Another War?
12/29/09 Van Auken, WSWS, In wake of airline incident: Drumbeat for US war in Yemen
12/29/09 Hodge, Wired, New Spyplane Lands in Afghanistan, Ready to Snoop
December 28, 2009
12/28/09 Schmidt & Worth, Times, US Widens Terror War to Yemen
12/28/09 Spence, IntelDaily, Ever Expanding Wars: An Appalling New Year Certainty
December 27, 2009
12/27/09 Fabian, The Hill, Kucinich: Generals Who Spoke Publicly on Afghan Strategy Should Lose Jobs
12/27/09 Phillips & Huff, TruthOut, Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex: Impacts on Movement for Social Justice
12/27/09 Schmitt & Worth, NYT, U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion
December 26, 2009
12/26/09 Al Jazeera, 'US drone' hits Pakistan home
December 25, 2009
12/25/09 Ross, IntelDaily, Pentagon now spending more for war than all 50 States combined spend to run the country
December 24, 2009
12/24/09 Al Jazeera, Russia to modernise nuclear arsenal
12/24/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Permanent Militarism: When Bioweapons & Land Mines Aren't Even Mentioned
December 21, 2009
12/21/09 Martin, Wired, Uranium Is So Last Century -- Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke
December 20, 2009
12/20/09 Landler, NYT, Civilians Train in 'Afghan City' in the Midwest
December 19, 2009
12/19/09 VOA, US Signs Nuclear Deal with UAE (where Royals are accussed of torturing locals [video included])
12/19/09 Reuters, U.S. helped Yemen with hardware, intelligence: report
12/19/09 Dupre, Human Rights Examiner, What are effects of electromagnetic weapons? Human Rights info 101
December 18, 2009
12/18/09 Swanson, IntelDaily, Look Who Just Funded the Escalation
12/18/09 Shanker & Landler, NYT, U.S. Aids Yemeni Raids on Al Qaeda, Officials Say
12/18/09 Page, The Register, Special Ops robots now do psychological warfare
December 17, 2009
12/17/09 Murphy, CSM, Predator drone download by Iraqi insurgents wasn't 'hacking'
12/17/09 MacAskill, CNN, US drones hacked by Iraqi insurgents
12/17/09 Chick, CSM, US to stage simulated Iran missile attack after Sajjil-2 test
December 15, 2009
12/15/09 Chosun Ilbo, China Builds Underground 'Great Wall' Against Nuke Attack
December 14, 2009
12/14/09 Hawk, IntelDaily, The Real Story Behind, Blackwater, JSOC and the CIA's Private Army of Elite Assassins
12/14/09 Barnes, LAT, Obama May Launch Drone Attacks on Major Pakistani City
12/14/09 LAT, Drone attacks may be expanded in Pakistan
12/14/09 Press TV, 'US fighter jets attack Yemeni fighters'
December 13, 2009
12/13/09 Lazareva, BBC, Russia-France arms deal raises concerns for neighbours
December 12, 2009
12/12/09 Al Jazeera, US 'militarising' Afghanistan aid
12/12/09 BBC, CIA cancels Blackwater drone missile-loading contract
December 11, 2009
12/11/09 McDermott, BBC, 'US backed' Colombian attack on Ecuador camp
12/11/09 BBC, Who is counting the bodies in Iraq?
December 10, 2009
12/10/09 Shachtman, Wired, U.S. Military Joins CIA's Drone War in Pakistan
12/10/09 Sidiqi, FPIF, Obama's Surge and Pakistan
December 7, 2009
12/07/09 Lodroño, WP, Millions' worth of gear left in Iraq
December 6, 2009
12/06/09 CNN, Karzai: U.S. must have patience if Afghanistan not ready
12/06/09 Montero, CSM, Will US drones start attacking Mullah Omar in Pakistan?
12/06/09 Kornblut et al, WP, Obama pressed for faster surge
12/06/09 AP, Gates Expects 2-4 Years of Big Afghan Role for U.S.
12/06/09 San Pedro, BBC, US agency's balloon hunt tests internet accuracy
December 5, 2009
12/05/09 Eley, WSWS, US prepares Fallujah-style offensive in Afghanistan
December 4, 2009
12/04/09 DeGraw, DeepJournal, Af-Pak War Racket: The Obama Illusion Comes Crashing Down
12/04/09 Schaill, RebelReports, Erik Prince and CIA/JSOC assassinations and drone bombings - video
12/04/09 Andrews, ProPublica, U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Agent Orange
12/04/09 Kunichoff, TruthOut, Blackwater Founder Tells of Extensive Government-Contracted Assassinations
12/04/09 Benson, CNN, White House OKs expanding CIA drone program in Pakistan
December 3, 2009
12/03/09 Shane, NYT, C.I.A. to Expand Use of Drones in Pakistan
12/03/09 Fisher, The Atlantic, How Close Are Blackwater and JSOC?
December 2, 2009
12/02/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Obama's Afghanistan speech: How it sounded to Afghans
December 1, 2009
12/01/09 Fisher, Atlantic, The Special Ops Command That's Displacing The CIA
12/01/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Out-of-Control Security Guards Hamper Afghanistan Efforts
November 29, 2009
11/29/09 Harris, Stars & Stripes, Construction booming at Vicenza
November 28, 2009
11/28/09 MacLeod, Canada Citizen, US Navy Plots Arctic Push
November 27, 2009
11/27/09 Holland, AlterNet, Scahill and Olbermann on Blackwater: Murderous Crusaders for Christ
11/27/09 Lobe, IPS, Obama's State Department Backpedals on Landmine Treaty Stance
November 25, 2009
11/25/09 Alexander, Reuters, US Will Not Join Treaty Banning Landmines
November 24, 2009
11/24/09 CNN, Pentagon preparing to send 34,000 troops to Afghanistan, official says
November 23, 2009
11/23/09 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
November 22, 2009
11/22/09 Boone, Guardian, US pours millions into anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan
11/22/09 Shah, CSM, Pakistan to US: Don't surge in Afghanistan, talk to Taliban
11/22/09 O'Shaughnessy, Independent, US Builds Up its Bases in Oil-Rich South America
November 20, 2009
11/20/09 Arab News, Kingdom, US sign pact
November 19, 2009
11/19/09 IntelDaily, Its better than having live rounds fired at you: Demo of Ray Gun
November 17, 2009
11/17/09 Shachtman, Wired, Army Eyes Missiles Filled With Flying Spy Bots
November 13, 2009
11/13/09 Drummond, Wired, Darpa: Freeze Soldiers to Save Injured Brains
11/13/09 Chulov, Guardian, Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja
11/13/09 Saber, Asia Times, US air supply drop turns deadly
11/13/09 Vartabedian, LAT, Nuclear scars: Tainted water runs beneath Nevada desert
November 12, 2009
11/12/09 Richter, LAT, U.S. ambassador warns against Afghanistan troop buildup
November 11, 2009
11/11/09 WW$ Report, Colombia: court rules against US bases plan as more details revealed
November 10, 2009
11/1/009 BBC, Drones scour the sea for pirates
11/10/09 Toronto Star, Video Shows Taliban With US Weapons
November 6, 2009
11/06/09 Leithead, BBC, Thailand's shadowy southern insurgency
11/06/09 BBC, Two decades since the Berlin Wall came down, BBC Mundo looks at walls and barriers around the world which are still standing - or have been put up - since 1989.
November 4, 2009
11/04/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Twenty Years After End Of The Cold War: Pentagon's Buildup In Latin America
November 3, 2009
11/03/09 AFP, Beijing gives frosty reception to man-made snowstorm
11/03/09 Mian, FPIF, United States, Pakistan: The Decade Ahead
November 2, 2009
11/02/09 ChinaView, China's annual military recruitment favors college graduates
11/02/09 AFP, China chief says space arms inevitable: state media
November 1, 2009
11/01/09 Tamayo, Miami Herald, In Latin America, weapons buying spreads mistrust
October 31, 2009
10/31/09 Hoeksema, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Hunger and Conflict Go Hand in Hand
10/31/09 Devraj, IPS, RIGHTS: Rising China Poses Danger to Peace, Say Nobel Laureates
October 30, 2009
10/30/09 Brodzinsky, CSM, US and Colombia sign accord for US to access military bases
10/30/09 ACLU, President Signs Law Giving Defense Department Authority To Exempt Photos From Freedom Of Information Act
10/30/09 Leonnig, WP, 7 on defense panel scrutinized
October 29, 2009
10/29/09 Romanian Times, CRG says USA to use Romanian bases to control Caspian Sea oil
10/29/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Cluster Bomb Trade Funded by World's Biggest Banks
October 28, 2009
10/28/09 AFP, US Drone Strikes May Break International Law: UN
10/28/09 Hornick, CNN, U.S. set to pay Taliban members to switch sides
10/28/09 Forestier-Walker, CSM, As US seeks closer ties with Turkmenistan, government cracks down on students
10/28/09 Brittain, IntelDaily, US Strategic Interests in Latin America: The Militarization of Colombia
10/28/09 BBC, US warned on deadly drone attacks
October 27, 2009
10/27/09 Cogan, WSWS, The reality behind the US "success" in Iraq
10/27/09 Klare, Nation, Welcome to 2025: American Pre-eminence Ends Fifteen Years Early
October 26, 2009
10/26/09 Lindorff, The Public Record, Pentagon Dirty Bombers: Depleted Uranium in the USA
October 25, 2009
10/25/09 Mahdy, IPS, MIDEAST: 'France, U.S. Pushing Arabs Into Nuclear Race'
10/25/09 Defense Update, DARPA's Foliage-Penetrating Radar Tested on the A160T Hummingbird
October 23, 2009
10/23/09 Canon, KC Star, Bunker buster carries goal of deterring Iran
10/23/09 Rizoff, IntelDaily, AFRICOM Year Two: Taking The Helm Of The Entire World
10/23/09 Lubold, CSM, NATO backs McChrystal's Afghanistan strategy
October 20, 2009
10/20/09 Rosenberg, Miami Herald, Admiral: I can empty Guantánamo camps in 10 days
10/20/09 Berger, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Pipeline Renews Debate on Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons
October 19, 2009
10/19/09 Raimundo, Deep Journal, Rethinking World War III
10/19/09 Lindorff, Public Record, Depleted Uranium: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke
10/19/09 Press TV, Report: US upgrading military bases in Afghanistan
10/19/09 Ross, Wired, Obama Steps Up Killer Drone Raids Despite Deaths of Civilians
10/19/09 Shachtman, Wired, Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
October 18, 2009
10/18/09 Pincus, WP, Military Seeks $1.3 Billion For Projects in Afghanistan
October 17, 2009
10/17/09 Cornwell, Reuters, U.S. said to be planning deeper engagement with Sudan
10/17/09 Swanson, IntelDaily, Army Experience Center's Bad Experience: Turns out Training Kids to Kill Not Popular with Public
October 16, 2009
10/16/09 Shachtman, Wired, Military Looks to Upgrade Its Super Spy Blimps
10/16/09 Page, Regsister, DARPA, Microsoft, Lockheed team up to reinvent TCP/IP
10/16/09 Cohen, IntelDaily, How The US Military Shapes Foreign Policy
10/16/09 Scahill, Rebelreports, Cindy McCain Bankrolled Conference That Called for Ban on Mercenaries
October 15, 2009
10/15/09 Pak Tribune, US embassy found involved in importing weapons to Pakistan
10/15/09 McGreal, Guardian, US defence firms face penalty over block on assault claims
10/15/09 BBC, 'US drone' kills four in Pakistan
October 14, 2009
10/14/09 Wilber, WP, Judge Blocks Public From Blackwater Hearings
10/14/09 Gearan, Scotsman, Pentagon's new bomb targets hidden weapons bunkers
October 13, 2009
10/13/09 DOAK, FPIF, The Secret About Jobs Military Contractors Don't Want You to Know
10/13/09 Baker, Business Week, IBM to Apply Analytics to War on Terror
October 12, 2009
10/12/09 Moore, Telegraph, China builds 'Pentagon' shopping centre in Shanghai
October 11, 2009
10/11/09 Lardner, AP, Weapons failed US troops during Afghan firefight
October 9, 2009
10/09/09 Miller, ProPublica, Civilian Contractor Toll in Iraq and Afghanistan Ignored by Defense Dept.
10/09/09 CNN, Pentagon hacker 'suicidal' following U.S. 'bullying'
10/09/09 Press TV, US completing 'bunker buster' bomb
October 8, 2009
10/08/09 King, Redress, Europe is under imminent threat - US military bases in Europe - an occupation in all but name
10/08/09 Aftergood, Secrecy News, DoD Suppressed Critique of Military Research
10/08/09 LaFranchi, CSM, US to give Pakistan $1.5 billion a year - with strings attached
October 7, 2009
10/07/09 Page, The Register, US to export riot-roasting raygun
10/07/09 Nicholas, IntelDaily, Militarism, War, and Dictatorship
October 6, 2009
10/06/09 Weismann, TruthOut, 500,000 Troops for Pashtunistan?
10/06/09 Baker, NYT, Surgical Strikes Shape Afghanistan Debate
10/06/09 Ridge, CSM, India prepares new assault on its 'biggest threat'
October 5, 2009
10/05/09 Shala=Esa, Reuters, U.S. Army eyes more agile modernization approach
October 3, 2009
10/03/09 Harvey, TimesOnline, Avenger of the Skies: New Wave of Drones Takes Off
October 2, 2009
10/02/09 AFP, US Navy creates command to maintain cyber supremacy
10/02/09 Shanker, NYT, U.S. Review of Battle Disaster Sways Strategy on Afghanistan
10/02/09 PressTV, Japan questions covert military treaties with US
10/02/09 IntelDaily, Video: Africom or Africon? Parts 1, 2, 3, 4
10/02/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Thousand Deadly Threats: Third Millennium NATO, Western Businesses Collude On New Global Doctrine
10/02/09 Llana, CSM, South America: Will defense spending trigger an arms race?
September 30, 2009
9/30/09 Cardinale, IPS, POLITICS-US: Nukes Agency Pushes New Bomb Production
9/30/09 Marks, New Scientist, Portable pain weapon may end up in police hands
September 29, 2009
9/29/09 Fleishman, LAT, Missile tests underscore the threat Iran poses in Mideast
9/29/09 Stanton, IntelDaily, US Congress Requests Assessment of Army's Human Terrain System:Independent Assessment Due from SECDEF by March 2010
9/29/09 Feffer, FPIF, Carbon Disarmament
9/29/09 Ferner, IntelDaily, Robocops Come to Pittsburgh
9/29/09 BBC, India expands nuclear ambitions
September 28, 2009
9/28/09 Wilkerson, IntelDaily, Video: Africom or Africon?
9/28/09 Defense Update, Russia Develops the S-500 - a New Anti-Missile Defense System
9/28/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, U.S. Missile Shield System Deployments: Larger, Sooner, Broader
September 26, 2009
9/26/09 Norton-Taylor, RAF unveils Brimstone precision strike missile
September 25, 2009
9/25/09 Miller, LAT, U.S. officials say Iran's nuclear plant is no secret to them
September 24, 2009
9/24/09 Topping, Guardian, Calais immigrants move out of the 'jungle' into the wasteland
9/24/09 Shahzad, Asia Times, The US on a new mission in Pakistan
9/24/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, West Using Its Military Might To Control World Energy Resources
September 23, 2009
9/23/09 Llana, CSM, Latin America breaks ranks in US war on drugs
9/23/09 Moore, Garner Citizen, Garner is home to new PSYOP
September 21, 2009
9/21/09 Stein, Huffington Post, Authors of Iraq War Push Obama on Afghanistan
9/21/09 BBC, US prison camp in Iraqi desert closes
September 20, 2009
9/20/09 Bender, Boston Globe, Made in Mass., Bomb Stirs Global Debate
9/20/09 Tiron, The Hill, Missile Defense Shift Redirects Billions in Government Contracts
September 19, 2009
9/19/09 Lederere, AP, Global network detects sign of atomic bomb testing
September 18, 2009
9/18/09 Truthdig, An Insider's Window Into U.S. Nuclear Policy
September 17, 2009
9/17/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Army chief General Sir David Richards says ships and jets no longer the answer
9/17/09 Baker & Kulish, NYT, White House to Scrap Bush's Approach to Missile Shield
September 16, 2009
9/16/09 AP, The US military's detention facilities in Iraq
9/16/09 PublicRecord, Pentagon Study Proposes Overhaul of Defense Base Act to Cover Care for Injured Contractors
9/16/09 Page, The Register, US Spec Ops operates psywar websites targeted at UK
September 14, 2009
9/14/09 BBC, Chavez announces $2bn arms deal
9/14/09 BBC, US worried about Venezuelan arms
September 12, 2009
9/12/09 Luban & Lobe, IPS, Iran War Drums Begin Beating in Washington
September 11, 2009
9/11/09 Deen, IPS, No Slowdown for Weapons Industry
9/11/09 Alexander, Reuters, US Says 16 Guards Removed in Afghan Embassy Scandal
9/11/09 Stocking, AP, Survey: Dioxin levels high in Vietnam near US base
9/11/09 Marcus, BBC, US 'risks Afghan Soviet failure'
September 10, 2009
9/10/09 Hallinan, FPIF, Afghanistan: What Are These People Thinking?
September 9, 2009
9/09/09 Santora, NYT, Big US Bases Are Part of Iraq, but a World Apart
9/09/09 Chomsky, ITT, Militarizing Latin America
9/06/09 Rochman, Time, Samurai Mind Training for Modern American Warriors
9/09/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, Militarising space: The Fallujah fallacy
September 8, 2009
9/08/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Federal Prosecutors Say Blackwater 'Specifically Intended to Kill' Civilians
9/07/09 PressTV, Arab states world's top arms buyers
9/08/09 Englehardt, MoJo, Afghanistan by the Numbers
9/08/09 BBC, Underwater laser pops in navy ops
September 7, 2009
9/07/09 Press TV, US leads world in weapons sales
September 4, 2009
9/04/09 Fundingsland, Minot Daily News, B-52 bomber squadron activated at Minot Air Force Base
9/04/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, U.S. Marines In The Caucasus As West Widens Afghan War
September 3, 2009
9/03/09 Quraishi, IntelDaily, US Hummers Enter Pakistan, Undercover American Soldiers In Islamabad
September 2, 2009
9/02/09 Cary, Tri-City Herald, Study: Hanford construction workers were at risk of certain cancers

9/02/09 Barnes, LAT, U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan
9/02/09 Smith, ITT, COIN Toss
September 1, 2009
9/01/09 Judd, Independnet, Steroids, Drink and Paranoia: The Murky World of the Private Security Contractor
9/01/09 Glanz, NYT, Contractors Outnumber U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
August 31, 2009
8/31/09 Goodman, MoJo, War Games: The Army's Teen Arsenal
August 30, 2009
8/30/09 Ross, PublicRecord, Mercenary Armies: A Worldwide Threat and a Menace to Peace
8/30/09 Reuters, White House claims Pakistan modified U.S.-made missiles: report
8/30/09 DeYoung, NYT, U.S. Sets Metrics to Assess War Success
8/30/09 Kroll, MoJo, Fast Times at Recruitment High
August 29, 2009
8/29/09 Lodono, WP, Embassy Costs to Rise in Baghdad
8/29/09 Russia Today, US military firm acts "against the Constitution of the Philippines" (Blackwater/XE video)
8/29/07 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Pentagon Plans For Global Military Supremacy: U.S., NATO Could Deploy Mobile Missiles Launchers To Europe
August 28, 2009
8/28/09 Nassaw, Guardian, Mullen blasts US 'strategic communication' efforts in Afghanistan
August 27, 2009
8/27/09 UPI, U.S. to relocate missile defense system
August 25, 2009
8/25/09 Scahill, RebelReports, U.S. Increasing Use of Private Contractors in War Zone
August 24, 2009
8/24/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, AFRICOM: Pentagon's First Direct Military Intervention In Africa
8/24/09 Winslow & Sprey, MoJo, The Defense Industry's Secret Weapon
8/24/09 BBC, Media build up to World War II
August 23, 2009
8/23/09 Knowlton, NYT, Mullen Pessimistic on Afghanistan
8/23/09 Cooper. NYT, U.S. Military Says Its Force in Afghanistan Is Insufficient
August 22, 2009
8/22/09 Smith & Warrick, WP, Blackwater Disclosure Adds to CIA Worries
August 21, 2009
8/21/09 Rothschild, Progressive, More Military Intrusion Into Law Enforcement
August 20, 2009
8/20/09 Dando, Nature, Biologists napping while work militarized
8/20/09 Schouten, USA Today, Following the Money from Defense Lobby
8/20/09 Shanker, NYT, Counterinsurgency Unit to Stay in Philippines
8/20/09 USA Today, Biologists urged to watch for neurological weapons
8/20/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part II
8/20/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Showdown with Russia and China: U.S. Advances First Strike Global Missile Shield System
8/20/09 Bright, CSM, Reports: CIA hired Blackwater to help assassinate terrorists
8/20/09 Friedman, AsiaTimes, Washington ponders its endgame
August 19, 2009
8/19/09 Evans, ABCNews, ,a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=8364838">Arms Expert Warns New Mind Drugs Eyed by Military
August 18, 2009
8/18/09 Eoss, IntelDaily, Winners and Losers in the American Warfare State
8/18/09 August, Times Online, US Troops to Return to Iraq Despite Barack Obama's Withdrawal Plan
August 14, 2009
8/14/09 Capdevila, IPS, Indigenous People Troubled by US Military Presence
8/14/09 ABN, Eva Golinger: U.S. Privatizes Colombian War with its Transnational Mercenaries
August 13, 2009
8/13/09 Reyes, Miami Herald, U.S. says it might operate from -- but not run -- Colombian military bases
August 12, 2009
8/12/09 Hambling, Wired, Killer Drones to Get Sound System
8/12/09 Rothschild, Progressive, The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.
8/12/09 Shanker, NYT, New Army Handbook Teaches Afghanistan Lessons
8/12/09 Atzmon, FPIF, The Bully in Baghdad
August 11, 2009
8/11/09 Drew, NYT, A Soldier's Eye in the Sky
8/11/09 Pincus, WP, Air Force Training More Pilots for Drones Than for Manned Planes
8/11/09 Restrepo, IPS, COLOMBIA: Half Century of US Military Presence
August 10, 2009
8/10/09 Rodda, PublicRecord, Exposed: 'C Street' and The Military
8/10/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Biological Warfare and the National Security State: A Chronology
8/10/09 Volman, IPS, Clinton Sprinkles US Military Aid Across Africa
8/10/09 Defense Link, Air Force Global Strike Command activated
8/10/09 Valdivieso, AP, S. America concerned about US military in Colombia
August 9, 2009
8/09/09 Pay, Al Jazeera, US 'biggest' threat say Pakistanis
August 8, 2009
8/08/09 AFP, Climate Change to Challenge US Military: Report
8/08/09 Stratton, Guardian, Afghanistan could take 40 years, says new army chief
August 7, 2009
8/07/09 Navarro, NYT, New Battle on Vieques, Over Navy's Cleanup of Munitions
8/07/09 BBC, Uribe and Lula discuss US bases
August 6, 2009
8/06/09 Cappacio, Bloomberg, U.S. Intelligence Head Says Afghan Army Must Grow to 325,000
8/06/09 LaFranchi, CSM, Chavez rages at US plan to boost antidrug ops in Colombia
August 5, 2009
8/05/09 Hambling, Wired, 'Pain Ray' First Commercial Sale Looms
8/05/09 AFP, Obama Pentagon Plans Speeding Up 'Bunker Buster' Bomb
August 4, 2009
8/03/09 Drummond, Wired, Military Aims for Instant Repair of Wartime Wounds
July 29, 2009
7/29/09 Drummond, Wired, Total Recall: Pentagon Looks to 'Optimize' Troops' Minds
7/29/09 Brodzinsky, CSM, Possible US-Colombia military deal raises regional tensions
7/29/09 Swanson, Public Record, The Unconstitutional 'Treaty' Bush Agreed to During His Last Days
July 28, 2009
7/28/09 Pemberton, FPIF, Military vs. Climate Security: Mapping the Shift from the Bush Years to the Obama Era
7/28/09 Litvinsky & Lobe, IPS, U.S.: Better Balance Between Climate and Military Spending Urged
July 27, 2009
7/27/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Biowarfare Research: Lifting the Lid on America's "28 Days Later"
7/27/09 Mian, FPIF, Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink
July 26, 2009
7/26/09 Pincus, WP, Military Weighs Private Security on Front Lines
7/26/09 Martell, BBC, The women who clear Sudan's minefields
July 24, 2009
7/24/09 Bromwich, Asia Times, Serial war as a way of life
7/24/09 Williams, PublicRecord, War Related Illnesses Slowly Killing U.S. Veterans, Civilians
July 23, 2009
7/23/09 Robertson, CNN, How robot drones revolutionized the face of warfare
July 22, 2009
7/22/09 Wilson, The Hill, Pentagon Didn't Break Rules, Says GAO
7/22/09 Strobel, McClatchy, U.S. Embassy in Baghdad overstaffed, watchdog reports
7/22/09 Scahill, Nation, Blackwater Seeks Gag Order
July 21, 2009
7/21/09 Lindsay-Poland, FPIF, Revamping Plan Colombia
July 20, 2009
7/20/09 BBC, US to add 22,000 troops to army
July 17, 2009
7/17/09 Levine, CNN, Defense Department paid millions in wages to invalid accounts
7/17/09 Public Record, Pentagon Reclassifying Documents Already in the Public Domain
July 16, 2009
7/16/09 AFP, US Considers Expanding Army: Pentagon
July 15, 2009
7/15/09 Cubby, The Age, Uranium Mine Linked to US Arms Dealer
July 14, 2009
7/14/09 Tron, The Hill, Obama's Veto Threat Over F-22 Divides Democrats
July 13, 2009
7/13/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Wall Street Journal Loves Obama's Drone War Vs. Pakistan: "Unmanned Bombs Away"
July 12, 2009
7/12/09 Liepold, Army Times, Army lodging heads for upgrades by Actus Lend Lease, InterContinental Hotels Group
July 10, 2009
7/10/09 AFP, US Demand Fuels Spike in Small Arms Trade: UN Survey
July 8, 2009
7/08/09 Fisher, IntelDaily, Blackwater Charged With Murder, Tax Evasion, Shredding of Evidence in Baghdad Massacre Case
7/08/09 Stack, CSM, Fresh drone attacks in Pakistan reignite debate
July 7, 2009
7/07/09 Stiglitz & Bilmes, Capital Times, Adding Up the True Costs of Two Wars
July 6, 2009
7/06/09 LeMelle, FPIF, Straight Talk: Revealing the Real U.S. Africa-Policy
7/06/09 Wardrop, Telegraph, Unmanned Drones Could Be Banned, Says Senior Judge
7/06/09 Secrecy News, Pentagon Intel Ops "Often" Evade Oversight
7/06/09 CNN, U.S., Russia ready to set new nuclear arms limits
July 5, 2009
7/05/09 Simpson, Reuters, Italians Protest US Base Expansion, G8
7/05/09 China View, U.S. pledges increased military support to Somalia
July 3, 2009
7/03/09 Leopold, Truthout, Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion
7/03/09 Russia Today, Video: US sent Afghan mercenaries into Iraq (U.S. creates and controls all of its "enemies")
7/03/09 McAfee, IntelDaily, Questioning The Ethical Legitimacy of Drone Attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan
July 2, 2009
7/02/09 Johnson, MoJo, How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases
July 1, 2009
7/01/09 Hambling, Wired, Darpa's Smart, Flat Camera Is Packed With Beady Eyes
7/01/09 Thomma et al, McClatchy, Jones: No more U.S. troops to Afghanistan this year
7/01/09 BBC, US opens 'major Afghan offensive'
7/01/09 Roa, AlterNet, The Military Invades U.S. Schools: How Military Academies Are Being Used to Destroy Public Education
7/01/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Cyber Command Launched. U.S. Strategic Command to Oversee Offensive Military Operations
7/01/09 Montero, CSM, Obama could send 1,500 National Guard troops to Mexican border
June 30, 2009
6/30/09 Berrigan, FPIF, Weapons: Our #1 Export?
June 29, 2009
6/29/09 Zetter, Wired, Deep-Packet Inspection in U.S. Scrutinized Following Iran Surveillance
June 26, 2009
6/26/09 Kaye, IntelDaily, Five Decades of US Behavioral Scientists Implicated in Torture
6/26/09 Godoy, IPS, TECHNOLOGY: Rare Metals Could Trigger Next Trade War
6/26/09 Morris, MoJo, Mission Impossible
6/26/09 Bright, CSM, US sends weapons to Somali government
June 25, 2009
6/25/09 Morris, MoJo, The Axis of Pork (Part I: The Hidden Defense Budget; Part II: Operation Overrun; Part III: Where's My Flying Tank?)
June 24, 2009
6/24/09 Jones & Shah, Guardian, US missile strike kills 60 at funeral in Pakistan
6/24/09 Leaver & Atzmon, FPIF, A Withdrawal in Name Only
June 23, 2009
6/23/09 BBC, Civilians 'Bear the Brunt of War'
6/23/09 Shachtman, Wired, Afghan Airstrike Video Goes Down the Memory Hole
6/23/09 Morris, MoJo, Operation Overrun Defense budget
6/23/09 Hennessey & Berg, BBC, Rehearsing the end of the world
6/23/09 Bristow, BBC, China and US hold military talks
6/23/09 BBC, UK 'missed opportunity in Iraq'
June 22, 2009
6/22/09 Fontaine, News Tribune, Networked eyes on the battlefield
6/22/09 Morris, MoJo, Shock and Audit
6/22/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Obama's Undeclared War Against Pakistan Continues, Despite His Attempt to Downplay It
6/22/09 Northam, BBC, Missing for 50 years - US nuclear bomb
6/22/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, NATO's War Plans For The High North
June 19, 2009
6/19/09 ProPublica, In Their Shoes: Foreign Contractors in Iraq
6/19/09 Youssef, McClatchy, U.S. admits Afghan airstrike may have killed 86 civilians
6/19/09 CNN, Probe into Afghan civilian deaths: Airstrikes 'appropriate'
June 18, 2009
6/18/09 Hernandez, WP, Inventory Uncovers 9,200 More Pathogens
June 17, 2009
6/17/09 Kennard, AlterNet, "I Hate Arabs More Than Anybody": Desperate Army Recruits Neo-Nazis
6/17/09 Ottenberg, ITT, Their Island, Our Shame
June 16, 2009
6/16/09 Valencia & Slack, Boston Globe, State suspends weapons program
6/16/09 Dreazen, WSJ, Audit Finds That US Overpaid Blackwater by Tens of Millions of Dollars
June 15, 2009
6/15/09 Cohn, Truthout, Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
6/15/09 McClatchy, Pentagon wavers on release of report on Afghan attack
6/15/09 AP, Chinese sub, US sonar collision accidental: report
6/15/09 Cintron, WWLB, Police departments with heavy artillery
June 14, 2009
6/14/09 Swain, Times Online, Afghan Villagers Slain as They Took Cover
6/14/09 Lightman, McClatchy, Congress will pass war spending, but not without fight over photos
June 13, 2009
6/13/09 Graff, Reuters, U.N. seeks review of special forces in Afghanistan
June 12, 2009
6/12/09 Scahill, RebelReports, "A Perfect Storm for Disaster" Brewing With Washington's "Unprecedented" Shadow Army
6/12/09 Van Auken, IntelDaily, New US commander in Afghanistan assembles team of assassins
6/12/09 Porter, IPS, US-PAKISTAN: CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses
June 11, 2009
6/11/09 Ourdon, le Monde, Mercenaries Set Off for Afghanistan
June 10, 2009
6/10/09 The Public Record, Declassified Docs Offer New Revelations of Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program
6/10/09 Space.com, Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified
6/10/09 Scahill, RebelReports, U.S. War Privatization Results in Billions Lost in Fraud, Waste and Abuse--Report
6/10/09 Oakland Trib, Defense Department sees protests as terrorism
June 9, 2009
6/09/09 Heller, EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Air Raid Victim Tells Obama to Leave Afghanistan
June 8, 2009
6/08/09 Stanton, IntelDaily, US Army's Human Terrain System Like Swine Flu: Get Near it and You're Infected
6/08/09 Madslien, BBC, Military spending sets new record
June 6, 2009
6/06/09 Winship, TruthOut, The Privatization of "Obama's War"
June 5, 2009
6/05/09 Scahill, IntelDaily, UN Human Rights Council Blasts US for Killing Civilians, Drone Attacks and Using Mercenaries
6/05/09 Contreras, San Antonio, Texans Sue KBR, Halliburton Over War-Zone Burn Pits
6/05/09 DiNovella, Progressive, Fighting Militarism's Toxic Legacy
June 4, 2009
6/04/09 Heller, OpenLeft, Female Afghan MP Warns Congress of Dire Situation After US Airstrikes
6/04/09 CNN, U.N. envoy calls for probe into U.S. drone attacks
June 3, 2009
6/03/09 Reuters, U.S. finds mistakes in deadly Afghan air strikes
June 1, 2009
6/01/09 Taylor, AP, Tentative Deal Struck for Funding War
6/01/09 Trend Capital, USA stands ready to assist Azerbaijan in delivering hydrocarbons: U.S. special envoy
May 29, 2009
5/29/09 Sanger & Shanker, NYT, Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace
5/29/09 Berrigan, ITT, Defense Budget Shell Game
5/29/09 Fellowship For Reconciliation, Pentagon Plans Latin America-Wide Intervention Ability for New Military Base in Colombia
May 27, 2009
5/27/09 Tech Radar, US cops and military to get laser guns
5/27/09 Shah et al, Miami Herald, U.S. undertakes Iraq-scale embassy project in Pakistan
May 26, 2009
5/26/09 Hallinan, FPIF, Shadow Wars
May 21, 2009
5/21/09 Al Jazeera, US burns Bibles in Afghanistan row
May 19, 2009
5/19/09 Chivers, NYT, Arms Sent by U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands
5/19/09 Hedgpeth, WP, Army to Restructure Weapons Program, Expand It to All Combat Brigades
May 18, 2009
5/18/09 BBC, Rumsfeld 'Bible texts' criticised
5/18/09 Draper, GQ, And He Shall Be Judged: Rumsfeld ... Report covers slideshow
5/18/09 Spillius, Telegraph, Donald Rumsfeld covered Iraq briefing papers with Biblical texts
May 16, 2009
5/16/09 Jamail, TruthOut, Engineering "Trust of the Indigenous Population": How Some Anthropologists Have Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Army
May 15, 2009
5/15/09 AFP, IAEA Chief Warns of New 'Virtual' Nuclear Powers
5/15/09 Hook, LAT, Obama's extra war funding wins House approval
May 14, 2009
5/14/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia
May 12, 2009
5/12/09 Drummond, Wired, Physicist's Fool-Proof War Formula (Just Add Media Accounts)
5/12/09 Deen, IPS, POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says
5/12/09 Defense Update, DARPA to Seek Underground Targets with Laser, Gravity Sensors
May 10, 2009
5/10/09 Boone, Guardian, Doctors Raise Phosphorus Concerns After US Strikes in Afghanistan
May 7, 2009
5/07/09 CNN, Blackwater era ending in Iraq
5/07/09 Shachtman, Wired, Pentagon's Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion (Updated)
May 6, 2009
5/06/09 Vine & Pemberton, FPIF, Marine Protection as Empire Expansion
5/06/09 KC TV, Weapon of Choice: Depleted Uranium
May 5, 2009
5/05/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Al Jazeera Strikes Back at Pentagon, Releases Unedited Footage of US Soldiers' 'Bible Study' in Afghanistan
5/05/09 BBC, US needs 'digital warfare force'
May 4, 2009
5/04/09 Auken, IntelDaily, Obama administration seeks extraordinary military powers in Pakistan
5/04/09 PressTV, Pentagon rapped over KBR huge corruption case
May 3, 2009
5/03/09 Asia News Intl, Advisor: 'US Needs to Call off Drone Strikes in Pak'
April 30, 2009
4/30/09 Gill, BBC, Invisibility cloak edges closer
April 29, 2009
4/29/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Will NorthCom take over in Swine Flu Outbreak?
April 27, 2009
4/27/09 Bogan, Times, Radiation From 1960s Nuclear Tests Is Still Hurting My Family
4/27/09 Ross, IntelDaily, An Odd Coincidence: Many SOA Grads Become Latin Death Squad Killers
4/27/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Pentagon's Cyber Command to Be Based at NSA's Fort Meade
April 24, 2009
4/25/09 Sheridan et al, WP, Plan Would Deploy Guard Near Mexico
4/24/09 Stanton, IntelDaily, Counterinsurgency for the Masses: Educating Americans for Campaigns of National Interest
April 23, 2009
4/23/09 Zhong, Asia Times, China unveils its new naval clout
4/23/09 Geran, AP, Pentagon plan won't echo Obama no-nukes pledge
April 22, 2009
4/22/09 Miller, ProPublica, AIG Faces Inquiry Over Medical Care for U.S. Contractors
4/22/09 Hsu, WP, A Pentagon Cyber-Command Is in the Works
4/22/09 Cirello, IntelDaily, Pentagon general: President won't decide when troops leave Iraq
April 21, 2009
4/21/09 Hambling, WIred, Army Tests Flying Robo-Sniper
4/21/09 Mount, CNN, Hackers stole data on Pentagon's newest fighter jet
April 16, 2009
4/16/09 Poulsen, Wired, Documents: FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists and Hackers for Years
April 15, 2009
4/15/09 Porter, IPS, Errant Drone Attacks Spur Militants in Pakistan
April 13, 2009
4/13/09 Martin, IntelDaily, Pentagon holds war game simulating world financial crisis
April 12, 2009
4/12/09 Buchen, Wired, Next-Gen Atom Smashers: Smaller, Cheaper and Super Powerful
April 10, 2009
4/10/09 Barnes, LAT, Obama requests $83.4 billion more for war spending
April 9, 2009
4/09/09 Brooks, USA Today, Military Used Pigs in Blasts to Test Armor
April 8, 2009
4/08/09 Smith, Times Online, Military Sonar Blamed for Mass Dolphin Strandings
4/08/09 Montero, CSM, Pakistan drone attacks to intensify, Obama officials say
April 7, 2009
4/07/09 Shalal-Esa, Reuters, Gates plan raises questions for firms, military
April 6, 2009
4/06/09 Madra, Reuters, Torturer Says US Policy Fueled Rise of Khmer Rouge
4/06/09 Gupta, AlterNet, Shocking Scenarios: Rapid Economic Contraction May Lead to New Wars and Radicalized Politics
4/06/09 Herman, FPIF, Serb Demonization as Propaganda Coup
April 5, 2009
4/05/09 Wesolowsky, CSM, Obama lays out steps for a nuclear free world
4/05/09 Kattakin & Lamb, Sunday Times, Thousands Flee Bomb Attacks by US Drones
April 3, 2009
4/03/09 Stanton, IntelDaily, US Army 101st Airborne Investigative Report on Human Terrain System
4/03/09 AFNS, General Kehler: Spherical battlespace is new theater of operations
April 2, 2009
4/02/09 Arraf, CSM, Interview: Top US commander in Iraq
4/02/09 Scahill, AlterNet, Obama's Blackwater? Chicago Mercenary Firm Gets Millions for Private "Security" in Israel and Iraq
April 1, 2009
4/01/09 Haider, Reuters, US Expands Pakistani Drone-Strike Zone
4/01/09 Loven & Hurst, AP, US, Russia call for nuke cuts in sweeping agenda
March 31, 2009
3/31/09 Wyatt, BBC, UK in Iraq, the beginning of the end
March 30, 2009
3/30/09 Scahill, AlterNet, 283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries: The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq
3/30/09 Engelhardt, Nation, The Great Afghan Bailout
March 28, 2009
3/28/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Obama to Bring More Mercenaries to Afghanistan -- Sound Familiar?
5/28/09 BBC, Russia to build 6 nuclear subs with cruise missiles
March 27, 2009
3/27/09 Arraf, CSM, US general: American forces may not leave key Iraqi cities
3/27/09 BBC, Russian 'Arctic military' plan
March 26, 2009
3/26/09 Nichols, Nation, Shouldn't Congress Hold the Pentagon to Account?
3/26/09 Al Jazeera, US jets 'bombed convoy in Sudan'
3/26/09 BBC, US concerned over assertive China
3/26/09 Dowd, Reuters, Police taser use down in Canada amid safety fears
March 25, 2009
3/25/09 Boyd, McClatchy, Pentagon exploring robot killers that can fire on their own
3/25/09 Taylor, McClatchy, Why secretly funded DEA surveillance planes aren't flying
March 23, 2009
3/23/09 IntelDaily, Killer Chemtrails: The Shocking Truth (Video)
March 22, 2009
3/22/09 Watson, CNN, U.S. troop withdrawal through Turkey may get PM's OK
March 21, 2009
3/21/09 CNN, U.S. Navy vessels in Bahrain for evaluation after collision
March 20, 2009
3/20/09 Greenberg, PSL, Israel uses new, more-lethal tear gas canisters on Palestinians
3/20/09 Kassolowsky, Reuters, U.S. nuclear submarine collides in strait near Iran
March 19, 2009
3/19/09 Feffer, FPIF, Arms Race in Space
March 18, 2009
3/18/09 Peter, CSM, US considers broadening drone airstrikes in Pakistan
3/18/09 BBC, Czechs halt US missile treaties
3/18/09 Levine, CNN, Gates: 'Stop-loss' phasing out, families of fallen to get travel aid
March 17, 2009
3/17/09 Bender, Boston Globe, Gates Readies Big Cuts in Weapons
3/17/09 DeYoung, WP, U.S. Moves to Replace Contractors in Iraq
3/17/09 BBC, Russia announces rearmament plan
March 16, 2009
3/16/09 Wolff, Reuters, U.S. OKs record $2.1 billion arms sale to India
March 15, 2009
3/15/09 Page, Register, Pentagon inks deal on portable milli-wave raygun tech
March 14, 2009
3/14/09 Hedgepeth, WP, Army Defends Costly Weapons Program
March 13, 2009
3/13/09 Doak, FPIF, Making Peace or Fueling War in Africa
3/13/09 Hambling, Wired, New Army Weapon Aims to Fry Gadgets, People
3/13/09 Barnes, LAT, Pentagon plans blimp to spy from new heights
March 11, 2009
3/11/09 Byrne, IntelDaily, Pentagon knowingly exposed troops to cancer-causing chemicals, document shows
March 10, 2009
3/10/09 CNN, China says U.S. ship violated international law
March 9, 2009
3/09/09 Pemberton, FPIF, Battle Over Bases
March 6, 2009
3/06/09 Grey, Reuters, U.S.-led troops not protecting civilians enough: study
March 5, 2009
3/05/09 Hambling, Guardian, Nanotechnology goes to war
March 4, 2009
3/04/09 Nakashima, NYT, New Post Proposed at Pentagon
3/04/09 BBC, China to boost military spending
March 3, 2009
3/03/09 Perry, LAT, Jet crash caused by poor maintenance, errors, Marine investigation concludes
3/03/09 Falconer & Schulman , MoJo, Blackwater's New Frontier: Their Own Private Africa
3/03/09 Macaskill, Guardian, Obama offers to drop missile project if Russian helps deal with Iran
3/03/09 BBC, Canada inquiry told of Taser use
March 2, 2009
3/02/09 Rincon, BBC, US nuclear relic found in bottle
February 26, 2009
2/26/09 AFP, Pentagon moves to impose secrecy on budget talks
February 25, 2009
2/25/09 Greco, FPIF, Too Many Overseas Bases
February 24, 2009
2/24/09 Baumann, MoJo, Barney Frank to Obama: Cut Military Spending
2/24/09 CNN, Cost overruns have military facing 'train wreck,' McCain says
2/24/09 Madsen, Online Journal, Stanford a cog in the U.S. intelligence dirty money laundering machine
February 23, 2009
2/23/09 WorldFocus, U.S. secretly trains Pakistani soldiers to fight insurgents
2/23/09 McCarthy, Guardian, Suspend Military Aid to Israel, Amnesty Urges Obama After Detailing US Weapons Used in Gaza
2/23/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Surging Towards Disaster in the "Afpak Theatre"
February 21, 2009
2/21/09 Barsanti, ITT, War Without Warriors
February 20, 2009
2/20/09 BBC, US finds new Afghan supply route
February 17, 2009
2/17/09 Press TV, US to remove soldiers from Okinawa
2/17/09 Stanton, IntelDaily, The Mystical Realm of Human Terrain and COIN: Who is in Charge?
February 16, 2009
2/16/09 Hambling, WIred, Army's Ultimate Paintball Gun is No Toy
February 15, 2009
2/15/09 Stoner, ITT, Attack of the Killer Robots
February 14, 2009
2/14/09 Landay, McClatchy, Is the U.S. repeating Soviet mistakes in Afghanistan?
February 13, 2009
2/13/09 The Age, Defense Role in CIA's Secret Jails
February 12, 2009
2/12/09 Hambling, Wired, Special Forces' Gigapixel Flying Spy Sees All
2/12/09 BBC, US 'lost track of Afghan weapons'
2/12/09 Page, The Register, NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution
February 10, 2009
2/10/09 Feffer, FPIF, Pacific Freeze: Call to Action
February 9, 2009
2/09/09 Taylor & Norton-Taylor, Guardian. US Using British Atomic Weapons Factory for Its Nuclear Programme
2/09/09 Sigger, Wired, Top Army Biowar Lab Suspends Research After Toxin-Tracking Scare (Updated)
2/09/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, NATO's, Pentagon's New Strategic Battleground: The Arctic
2/09/09 Kearney, IntelDaily, Pentagon warns of US military intervention in Mexico's "war on drugs"
February 8, 2009
2/08/09 Starr, CNN, Sources: Iraq, Afghanistan withdrawals delayed
February 7, 2009
2/07/09 Eckel, AP, Russia allows transit of US military supplies
February 6, 2009
2/06/09 Gettleman & Schmitt, NYT, U.S. Aided a Failed Plan to Rout Ugandan Rebels
2/06/09 BBC, Kyrgyz closure of US base 'final'
2/06/09 Wald, NYT, Bomb Plants Could Shift to Control of Pentagon
February 5, 2009
2/05/09 Shachtman, WIred, Drone 'Surge'; Predator Flights Up 94% in 2008
2/05/09 Shachtman, Wired, 27,000 Work in Pentagon PR and Recruiting
2/05/09 Barry & Schwartz, NYT, Dispute Mounts Over Key US Base in Kyrgyzstan
February 4, 2009
2/04/09 BBC, Iraqi death researcher censured
2/04/09 CNN, Post-Soviet nations to form military force
February 3, 2009
2/03/09 Johnson, MoJo, Economic Death Spiral at the Pentagon
2/03/09 BBC, Kyrgyzstan 'to shut key US base'
February 2, 2009
2/02/09 Miller, ProPublica, Commission on Wartime Contractors Discovers...Afghanistan
2/02/09 Porter, IPS, Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision
2/02/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Defense Spending To Increase by 8% in 2010
January 29, 2009
1/29/09 Klomegah, IPS, TRADE: Russia Supplying Legal And ''Illegal'' Arms to Africa
1/29/09 Stringer, AP, Arctic's thaw brings security risks for NATO
January 28, 2009
1/28/09 Hopper, CNN, Pakistan: U.S. must halt drone attacks
1/28/09 Harding, Guardian, Russia scraps plan to deploy nuclear-capable missiles in Kaliningrad
January 27, 2009
1/27/09 CNN, Gates says missile attacks in Pakistan will continue
1/27/09 Reuters, First batch of extra U.S. troops in east Afghanistan
1/27/09 Martin, WSWS, Obama's new foreign policy team prepares escalated bloodletting in Afghanistan and Pakistan
1/27/09 Cogan, IntelDaily, US moves to consolidate new supply routes to Afghanistan
January 26, 2009
1/26/09 Sinharoy, ITT, Blackwater to Battle Pirates
January 24, 2009
1/24/09 Fernandez, SF Chron, Researchers Shocked: Tasers Cause Dramatic Rise of In-Custody Sudden Deaths
January 22, 2009
1/22/09 Cunningham, IPS, MIDEAST: Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons
1/22/09 Bezlova, IPS, CHINA: Modernising the World's Biggest Army
January 17, 2009
1/17/09 CNN, North Korea claims to have weaponized plutonium
1/17/09 Norton-Taylor, Guardian, Fresh Evidence of Israeli Phosphorus Use in Gaza emerges
January 16, 2009
1/16/09 Labott, CNN, U.S.-United Arab Emirates sign nuclear deal
January 14, 2009
1/14/09 IntelDaily, Greece hinders US arms delivery to Israel
1/14/09 IntelDaily, Pentagon report warns of Mexico "collapse"
January 13, 2009
1/13/09 ENS, Navy Allowed to Kill Whales in Hawaii During Sonar Training
January 11, 2009
1/11/09 Warrick, WP, Iran Using Fronts to Get Bomb Parts From U.S.
January 10, 2009
1/10/09 Ehrlinger, NYT, A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery
January 9, 2009
1/09/09 Deen, IPS, US Weaponry Facilitates Killings in Gaza
1/09/09 Hurdle, Reuters, US Army Recruiting at the Mall With Video Games
January 8, 2009
1/08/09 Shachtman, Wired, Pentagon Wants Loving Chat-Bot to Calm Troops' Kids
1/08/09 Sterling, CNN, Navy creates force devoted to fighting piracy
January 6, 2009
1/06/09 Shalal-Esa, Reuters, Gates projects Pentagon needs $70 billion more for wars
January 2, 2009
1/02/09 Berrigan, ITT, We Arm the World