Dale Gavlak The Syrian Jabhat al-Nusra group’s public pledge of allegiance to al-Qaida last week has increased tensions with other predominantly Sunni Muslim rebel forces seeking more military support from the West which, particularly in the form of lethal weapons, it has so far denied. While the militant group is credited with winning many […]
Dale Gavlak The Syrian Jabhat al-Nusra group’s public pledge of allegiance to al-Qaida last week has increased tensions with other predominantly Sunni Muslim rebel forces seeking more military support from the West which, particularly in the form of lethal weapons, it has so far denied. While the militant group is credited with winning many […]
Frederick Reese In an attempt to deal with cuts imposed upon the military by sequestration, the Pentagon has formally proposed two rounds of Base Realignment and Closures (BRAC) for 2015 and 2017. The Republicans — distinctly and loudly — have said no to this. The Department of Defense has requested $2.4 billion over the next […]
Frederick Reese In an attempt to deal with cuts imposed upon the military by sequestration, the Pentagon has formally proposed two rounds of Base Realignment and Closures (BRAC) for 2015 and 2017. The Republicans — distinctly and loudly — have said no to this. The Department of Defense has requested $2.4 billion over the next […]
The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military’s health care system. Despite dire warnings from three defense secretaries about the uncontrollable cost, Congress has repeatedly rebuffed Pentagon efforts to establish higher out-of-pocket fees and enrollment costs […]
The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military’s health care system. Despite dire warnings from three defense secretaries about the uncontrollable cost, Congress has repeatedly rebuffed Pentagon efforts to establish higher out-of-pocket fees and enrollment costs […]
Imagine a terrorist group that recruits tens of thousands of young men from the same neighborhoods and social networks as the Pakistani military. A group whose well-educated recruits defy the idea that poverty and ignorance breed extremism. A group whose fighters include relatives of a politician, a senior Army officer and a director of Pakistan’s […]
Imagine a terrorist group that recruits tens of thousands of young men from the same neighborhoods and social networks as the Pakistani military. A group whose well-educated recruits defy the idea that poverty and ignorance breed extremism. A group whose fighters include relatives of a politician, a senior Army officer and a director of Pakistan’s […]
North Vietnamese army veteran Nguyen Anh Quoc grimaces as he forces down the last of the 35 vitamins he takes each morning. After decades of suffering from illnesses he believes were caused by exposure to Agent Orange, he is putting his faith in a regime advocated by the Church of Scientology. “I have to take […]
North Vietnamese army veteran Nguyen Anh Quoc grimaces as he forces down the last of the 35 vitamins he takes each morning. After decades of suffering from illnesses he believes were caused by exposure to Agent Orange, he is putting his faith in a regime advocated by the Church of Scientology. “I have to take […]
“Here we are again promised that we will be protected, and still we die. Is this justice? … Is this humanity?” said Hassan Hussein — a Hazara Muslim Shi’a in Pakistan who lost a brother in a bomb attack last month. In 2012, 1,450 Shias died in Pakistan — the worst toll since the 1990s, as […]
“Here we are again promised that we will be protected, and still we die. Is this justice? … Is this humanity?” said Hassan Hussein — a Hazara Muslim Shi’a in Pakistan who lost a brother in a bomb attack last month. In 2012, 1,450 Shias died in Pakistan — the worst toll since the 1990s, as […]
MINNEAPOLIS – (MintPress) – It reads like a plot of a bad thriller, with the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, the detaining government agent prisoner X over alleged revelations of Israeli secrets, and Israeli and U.S. cyber attacks to derail Iran’s nuclear energy program, but would consumers of the news media think this is the […]
MINNEAPOLIS – (MintPress) – It reads like a plot of a bad thriller, with the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, the detaining government agent prisoner X over alleged revelations of Israeli secrets, and Israeli and U.S. cyber attacks to derail Iran’s nuclear energy program, but would consumers of the news media think this is the […]
