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2014/02/25

Mother Jones: Can’t Touch This – Best Overview of Pentagon Corruption and Idiocy at This Time and Place

CAN”T TOUCH THIS The wars are winding down. It’s the age of austerity. But nobody messes with the Pentagon budget. Until Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) rode to the rescue this week, Pentagon brass and their allies had been issuing dire warnings about the nation’s military readiness: The armed services were …

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2014/02/252014/02/25

Marcus Aurelius: Winners and Losers in DoD Budget

The Winners and Losers of Next Year’s Defense Budget What was cut and what was spared in Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s budget-request preview. By Sara Sorcher and Jordain Carney National Journal, February 24, 2014 The blade hasn’t fallen yet, but Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel raised the ax Monday when he offered a sneak peek of …

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2014/02/242014/02/24

Jim Fetzer: Saudi Role in 9/11 Theater Goes Very Public — Details That Cannot Be Denied?

Suppressed Proof: Saudi Arabia Was Complicit in 9/11 “Since 15 of the 19 alleged suicide terrorist were from Saudi Arabia and none were from Iraq, would it not have made more sense to have invaded Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq?” Veterans Today, 23 February 2014 It has now become clear that a major cover-up has …

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2014/02/192014/02/19

Penguin: Is the Pentagon Completely Corrupt? Yes — F-35 Totally Vulnerable to Electromagnetic Neturalization

The New F-35 Fighter Jet Can Be Taken Down Without A Bullet Ever Being Fired The F-35, the latest fighter jet being developed for the U.S. Armed Forces, has hit another potential snag.This time, it’s not questions of the jet’s structural integrity or even questions of relevance in combat. It’s the plane’s vulnerability to hackers. The …

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2014/02/142014/02/14

Berto Jongman: GAO – U.S. intelligence agencies can’t justify why they use so many contractors

GAO – U.S. intelligence agencies can’t justify why they use so many contractors Brian Fung Washington Post, 14 February 2014 Private contractors play a huge role in the government, particularly in civilian intelligence services like the CIA. Contracting critics say it’s an addiction whose overhead costs drive up the federal budget and leads to data …

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2014/02/142014/02/14

Berto Jongman: John Bell on Age of Dissent

The age of dissent Why are people resorting to street politics across the globe? John Bell Al Jazeera, 11 February 2014 John Bell is Director of the Middle East Programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace in Madrid. In 2012, after the beginnings of the Arab revolutions, Paul Mason, editor at BBC’s Newsnight programme, …

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2014/02/142014/02/14

Winslow Wheeler: Who Really Runs the Pentagon?

It’s not Chuck Hagel. I explain in a commentary at Foreign Policy at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/02/13/the_men_who_really_run_the_pentagon_chuck_hagel, and below. The Men Who Really Run the Pentagon Bob Gates wrestled the defense budget back from the Joint Chiefs. Chuck Hagel is handing it back. Winslow Wheeler Winslow T. Wheeler is the director of the Straus Military Reform Project at …

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