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Winslow Wheeler: Hill Hearing on Defense Backs Into the Truth

Foreign Policy is running my description of the hearing that Buck McKeon put on yesterday with Lockheed-Martin and a cast of lesser, not entirely cooperative, other characters.  Find my analysis at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/07/19/hard_of_hearing?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full, and below: Hard of Hearing Why the House’s attempt to save defense spending might flop. BY WINSLOW T. WHEELER | JULY 19, 2012 It …

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Breaking News: Israel False Flag Attacks (Bulgaria & Madame Clinton Done, Olympics False Flag Planned)

Breaking/Confirmed: Sec Clinton Assassination Attempt in Israel (Updated) Al-Alam and Reuters Report Hillary Clinton Convoy Attack in Israel By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Veterans Today, 19 July 2012 Israeli radio and Reuters broke the story then went mysteriously silent, an assassination attempt inside Israel, on Secretary of State Clinton.  Soon afterward, Iran’s national network, al …

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Winslow Wheeler: CBO Truth, DoD Lies, Political Theater

An important and informative Tony Capaccio article (from Bloomberg; shown below) came out today.  It summarizes (accurately) CBO’s analysis of the budget effects of sequester: if sequester were to occur, the Pentagon’s “base” (non-war) budget would be $469 billion for 2013.  This is slightly above what was spent in 2006, and it is “larger than the …

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Chuck Spinney: Global Moral Downside of Privatizing US Military Support

In the late 1980s, under the leadership of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, the Pentagon began to privatise many of  the military’s support services that had traditionally be done soldiers, sailors, and airmen — laundries, dining halls, security guards, cleaning latrines, some supply functions, etc.  It was argued at the time that this would save …

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David Swanson: Even Failed Activism Succeeds

Why Even Failed Activism Succeeds I enjoy reading histories of past activism, including memoirs by long-time activists, such as Lawrence Wittner’s new book, Working for Peace and Justice. Almost every such account includes belated discoveries of the extent to which a government was been spying on and infiltrating activist groups. And almost every such account …

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