Gangs Joining Military for War Training,... and getting paid (VIDEO)

09-01-2006 • Fox 11 - You Tube

USA Gang signs and Tags all over Iraq - Just another unintended consequence of forcing an unpopular war on a county's people.

Backdoor Draft

08-30-2006 • www.antiwar.com

It Begins (Got passports for your children?)

Rumsfeld Cautions on Missile Shield

8-28-2006 • AP

After his first look inside the US missile defense system, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld sounded a note of caution about expectations that interceptors poised in underground silos here would work in the event of a missile attack by North Korea.

Military lawyers see limits on trial input

8-28-2006 • Boston Globe

Despite assuring Congress that career military lawyers are helping design new trials for accused terrorists, the Bush administration has limited their input on their key request, that any tribunals must give detainees the right to see the evidence ag

Pentagon to reorganize policy office, add new job

8-29-2006 • Reuters

The Pentagon unveiled a plan to reorganize its policy office and make it easier to coordinate the so-called global war on terror within the U.S. government and with international allies.

Rumsfeld: Extremists manipulating media

8-29-2006 • AP

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he is deeply troubled by the success of terrorist groups in "manipulating the media" to influence Westerners.

Army to Review Casualty Reports

8-25-2006 • AP

The Army is reviewing casualty reports on American soldiers killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere since 2001, a response to complaints that it has not always given families accurate information. The review covers hundreds of casualties in the two

Reinstate the draft or lose the war

8-24-2006 • Raw Story

Fast on the heels of yesterday's Defense Department involuntary call up of Marine reserves, an Iraq veterans group tells RAW STORY that if a draft is not the next step, President Bush must choose to accept a loss in the war.

U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Targeted For Suggesting New Independent 9/11 Investigation

8-23-2006 • Lonestar Iconoclast

According to unnamed military sources, SFC Buswell "used his Government issued email account to send messages disloyal to the United States …" Because of these statements, SFC Buswell could soon find himself dishonorably discharged, court m

Military Recruiters Cited for Misconduct ... Disciplined

8-21-2006 • AP

More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams

Raised age limit has older recruits filling out Army ranks

8-21-2006 • AP

Margie Black had wanted to enter the military as a teenager, but having her first child at 19 put off her ambitions. So when she learned the Army raised its enlistment age, Black, now a 41-year-old grandmother from West Columbia, Texas, didn't he

Lt. Ehren Watada's Speech: "Soldiers Can Choose to Stop Fighting"

08-18-2006 • Truthout.org

Watada said: "Today, I speak with you about a radical idea.... The idea is this: that to stop an illegal and unjust war, the soldiers can choose to stop fighting it." (Kick Ass Video)

Lt. Ehren Watada's Speech: "Soldiers Can Choose to Stop Fighting"

08-18-2006 • Truthout.org

Watada said: "Today, I speak with you about a radical idea.... The idea is this: that to stop an illegal and unjust war, the soldiers can choose to stop fighting it." (Kick Ass Video)

US Army faces FCS shambles

08-15-2006 • UPI

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's cyber-dream for the US Army has become a cyber nightmare. Rumsfeld took office determined to transfrom the US armed forces into a high-tech, computerized, lean, mean fighting machine that would be invincible.

Military recruiting violations rise as any warm body will do

8-14-2006 • Reuters

Allegations of wrongdoing by U.S. military recruiters jumped by 50 percent from 2004 to 2005, and criminal violations such as sexual harassment and falsifying documents more than doubled, a congressional agency said.

Israel asks for rockets with wide blast

08-11-2006 • New York Times

Israel has asked the Bush adminstration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, which it could use to strike Hezbollah missile sites in Lebanon, 2 American officials said Thursday. The request for M-26 ar

Army shoots down plan for military theme park

08-10-2006 • AP

The Army shot down a developer's proposal Tuesday to build a military theme park on a Virginia Army base that would feature rides that allow visitors to "command the latest M-1 tank", and "feel the rush of a paratrooper free fall**

BattleBots

8-8-2006 • LiveScience.com

The Vecna BEAR robot (Battlefield Extraction and Retrieval Robot) is being developed as an adjunct to other rescue technologies for extracting combat casualties. The BEAR bot has three main elements; hydraulic upper body, mobile platform and dynam

Blimps report for duty

Blimps report for du • Washington Post

Multimax Inc. is trying to revive an old-fashioned technology to thrust the information technology firm onto the front line. The Largo company has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this new project, the design looks like an elliptical UFO, bu

US sells military hardware over the Net

08-08-2006 • Sunday Mail

American defence chiefs are selling millions of dollars worth of military hardware from Iraq and Afghanistan to the highest bidder over the internet. The items - which include rocket launchers and guided missile radar - can easily be used or adapted

Agency says another PC with veterans' data missing

8-8-2006 • Reuters

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said that a desktop computer with personal data on as many as 38,000 U.S. military veterans had disappeared from Unisys Corp., a subcontractor. Disclosure of the breach comes three days after authorities arr

Governors object to Bush takeover of National Guard

8-6-2006 • AP

The nation's governors are closing ranks in opposition to a proposal in Congress that would let the president take control of the National Guard in emergencies without consent of governors. The measure would remove the currently required consent

Senate goes home rather than supply the troops

8-6-2006 • AP

The Senate debated but left unfinished a huge Pentagon spending bill. "I think we're going to be criticized, every one of us, for deciding to go home rather than finish this bill," said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.

US plans bigger troop cut in South Korea

8-7-2006 • Reuters

The United States will lower troop levels in South Korea beyond a previously agreed reduction to 25,000, but the cut will not be "substantial," a senior defense official said on Monday.

Petty officer held in secret for 4 months

8-6-2006 • Virginia-Pilot

A petty officer has been in the Norfolk Naval Station brig for more than 4 months facing espionage, desertion and other charges, but the Navy has refused to release details of the case. “I know of no authority to keep the proceeding closed. I’ve neve

Rumsfeld warns against early Iraq troop pull-out

8-4-2006 • Reuters

[Why do we need troops stationed around the world?] "If we left the Middle East, they'd order us and all those who don't share their militant ideology to leave what they call the occupied Muslim lands from Spain to the Philippines,"

US to fly top-of-line F-22 fighter often from Guam

8-4-2006 • Reuters

[In search of a mission.] The top US fighter aircraft, the F-22 Raptor, will operate frequently from the Pacific island of Guam in coming years, a top general said, as Washington counters China's military build-up with enhanced US firepower