Obama Delivers Guantanamo Closure Plan to Congress, Nation

President Obama is making his case to the nation to finally close the much maligned detention center in his final year in office.

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Dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. U.S. officials say the Pentagon’s long-awaited plan to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer the remaining detainees to a facility in the U.S. calls for up to $475 million in construction costs, but would save as much as $180 million per year in operating costs. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Barack Obama presented a four point plan Tuesday to “close Guantanamo once and for all” the president said. The plan now lies in the control of Congress to approve the closure, or not. ​“When it becomes clear that something is not working as intended, that it does not advance our national security its time to change course," said

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Officials Emphasize Wars On Record $4.1 Trillion Budget Proposal

Much of the money requested was purported to be to prepare for potential wars against Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran in 2017,

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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Timothy Dupuis, of Dover, New Hampshire, climbs the stairs at an outpost in Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, May 2, 2006. Jacob Silberberg | AP

The Obama Administration is sending its record $4.1 trillion 2017 budget proposal to Congress today, and while Congressional leaders scoff at many of the non-military increases, the narrative on more money for wars seems to be dominated by the administration, hyping the assorted wars and “threats” they’ll be getting us into. The early Pentagon

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Through The Revolving Door: Most Former Congress Members Become DC Lobbyists

The authors of a recent study warned that these revolving door lobbyists could give employers “insider information about government operations that gives them an unfair advantage.”

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WASHINGTON --- Over half of retiring Congressmen become lobbyists in Washington, D.C., after their terms come to an end. Jeffrey Lazarus, Amy McKay and Lindsey Herbel made this startling claim in a study published on Jan. 14 in the journal Interest Groups & Advocacy. The study, which examined all departing members of Congress from 1976 to

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Anti-Corruption Gyrocopter Pilot Seeks Return To Congress, This Time By Election

“We’re going to literally pack the courtroom” with supporters and media, said Doug Hughes, who hopes to turn his April 13 sentencing hearing for a felony charge into a campaign opportunity.

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Douglas Hughes of Florida holds up a design for a stamp that was given to him by an artist as a gift, while meeting with reporters outside federal court in Washington, Thursday, May 21, 2015, . Hughes, who flew a gyrocopter through some of America's most restricted airspace before landing at the Capitol pleaded not guilty on Thursday to the six charges he faces. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida --- After illegally landing a miniature helicopter on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol last year, Doug Hughes is determined to return to the Hill as a member of the House of Representatives. “I’m coming back to Congress by ground. And this time I’m not going to be outside the building -- I’m going to be inside the building!”

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US Could Fund Neo-Nazis After Congress Removes Ban

The move came after an Azov battalion member told the Daily Beast about his battalion’s “experience with U.S. trainers and U.S. volunteers … even mentioning U.S. volunteer engineers and medics that are still currently assisting them.”

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The US$64 billion dollars set aside by Congress to fight “Russian aggression” could end up in the hands of far-right groups like the Azov Battalion, The Nation reports. In December 2015 U.S. legislators approved the US$1.8 trillion 2016 budget. According to House Speaker Paul J. Ryan, a sum of US$64 billion was passed for “overseas contingency

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Daniel Ellsberg: US Military-Industrial Complex Also Includes Big Corporations And Congress

“[The] CIA particularly represents the views of the Wall Street investment firms and the multinational corporations that they invest in,” noted the whistleblower who leaked “The Pentagon Papers.”

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Daniel Ellsberg, whistle-blower and former presidential adviser on nuclear strategy, is shown being photographed and placed in a bus after his arrest on Monday, June 22, 1982 at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore, California. Ellsberg was demonstrators opposed to Nuclear weapons development at Lawrence Livermore Lab were hauled off to jail as well as Ellsberg. (AP Photo)

MINNEAPOLIS --- MintPress News is proud to host “Lied to Death,” a 13-part audio conversation between famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and social justice activist Arn Menconi. Menconi wrote that these interviews are a “mixture of historical, political science and Dan’s sixty-year scholarly analysis as a former nuclear planner for Rand

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