How Americans are as blind to US fascism as Nazi-era Germans

...to save Europe;” a noble national defense against Britain and France's determination...,” including Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, US Ambassador to the..., and other key positions in Defense and State Departments.   In 1992, ...any semblance of argument of “self-defense.” The Obama administration won’t acknowledge...are crystal-clear that only self-defense, in a narrow legal meaning,...

... wing" of the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command. No wonder he was a darling of former vice president Dick Cheney and secretary of defense Rumsfeld. The Obama administration's belief in his extreme terrorization methods qualifies as no more than Rumsfeldian foreign policy. Так что теперь в ...

Back from combat, women struggle for acceptance

...'d you get out? All the questions that come with it." The Defense Department bars women from serving in assignments where the primary mission is to ...Sen. Patty Murray, a member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs committee, recently asked VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to ensure that service members' combat experience is included on their military discharge papers, so ...

U.S. Warns Latin America About "Flirting" With Iran

Monroe Doctrine, Hillary’s Style? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton late last week urged Latin ...W. Bush in the guise of U.S. national defense: CIA terrorists have already been tried and convicted in ... they do." There have been similar expressions of concern from Pentagon officials including Defense Secretary Robert Gates who in Senate testimony earlier this year said he was concerned about...

Retrieval and Return- Chap. 7 and 8

... and lavender skirt that reached below her knees, appeared to have no defense at all. "That's what you'd think, but see, this ... into Wolfram and Hart ellicited nothing but a bored look from the secretary, and a little hat-tip from a few security guards. A singular ..., everything went to hell. Or, at least they did. The secretary and security guards didn't notice when the tweed-wearing man turned ...

Morituri te Salutant: On a “Surge” in Afghanistan

... 2011. The immediate days following saw Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates back off in testimony to Congress. The July 2011 ...to AfPak Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, and yesterday Secretary Clinton also stated that negotiations are possible...abide by Afghanistan’s Constitution.” Constitutions, Madam Secretary, can be abrogated, and an Islamic Emirate...

More of the Conservative Manifesto

...Office of the Secretary of Defense o Defense Policy Board Advisory...o Office of Inspector General  Defense Criminal Investigative Service • Service departments...Pentagon Police (USPPD) • Department of Defense Field Activities o American Forces...Officer Office of the Under Secretary (OUS) • Office of Postsecondary Education...WHIHBCU) Office of the Deputy Secretary (ODS) • Office of Elementary and...

WE NEVER REALLY EXPECTED THAT MYSTERIOUS TRIPLE SUICIDE IN GITMO TO HAVE CONFUSING MEMORY HOLES GUYS

...after the resignation of the Obama Administration's two top officials responsible for detainee issues: White House counsel Greg Craig and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Phil Carter. A senior Pentagon official, asked about the report on Sunday, did not have an immediate response, but said one might...

Afghan Strategy + Amanda Knox

...1800s) audience. It looks like many of the NATO allies will be sending a significant amount of troops to help in this operation. The Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and President deserve a lot of credit for getting the NATO allies and others to agree to send thousands of more troops which, previously, ...

Soldiers with PSTD are apparently Godless unAmerican liars

... a class-action lawsuit against the secretary of the VA for the shoddy ... appointee at the VA, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Michael McLendon. McLendon, ... role for faith-based organizations. The secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs...help they needed, an assistant secretary of defense disputed the report’s findings...to treatment of PTSD. The new secretary of the Department of Veterans ...