Mini-Me: John Brennan, Drones, Killing Children + Drone Meta-RECAP

Huh? John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old Medea Benjamin Huffington Post, 01/08/2013 In October 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended a gathering in Islamabad where he was taught how to use a video camera so he could document the drones that were constantly circling over his Pakistani village, terrorizing and killing his family and neighbors. Two days …

Winslow Wheeler: Will Chuck Hagel Stand Up to Drone Lobby?

Everyone has an opinion and the speculation is almost entirely based on what former Senator Hagel has said, rather than his actions–or lack of them–which speak a lot louder. Take an acutely political career that seems to have valued words above everything and match it with Pentagon myths about defense systems, and you get a somewhat different …

DefDog: Panetta at Press Club — Pathetic! & Comment by Robert Steele with Remedial Reading List

While touted as strategy, I fail to see any, more like wishful thinking and hope…..and as we all know, Hope is Not a Strategy…. Remarks by Secretary Panetta at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LEON E. PANETTA:  Thank you very much, Theresa, for that kind introduction.  And thank you for the …

Marcus Aurelius: Army Spreading Troops Around Africa?

A broad concept that illuminate the fact that Special Operations Forces are not available for such duties. Army plans to shift troops to U.S. Africa Command Aims for quick crisis response U.S. Africa Command, the military’s newest regional force, will have more troops available early next year as the Pentagon winds down from two ground …

Gordon Duff: Honoring Chuck Hagel, Fed Up with Zionist Meddling in US Affairs

Americans fed up with Israeli meddling in US domestic affairs By Gordon Duff and Press TV — ”Real or not, Netanyahu feels Israel has been abandoned by the US. Some Americans, I am certainly one of these, Hagel is one also as is Chairman of the JCOS, Martin Dempsey, see Israel as interfering in domestic …

Dolphin: Haiti Moves Up in African Union — World Routing Around the USA? + RECAP

Haiti To Become Full Associate Member Of African Union Osun Defender (Nigeria), 8 December 2012 The black race is gradually coming together. Where other world groupings are primarily motivated by strategic, security, political and economic interests, Africans wherever they are can count also on their common history of being black. Haiti currently has the status …