Military Accepting Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Probe Finds

Raw Story | The US military has effectively adopted a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning white supremacists and neo-Nazis in an effort to bolster recruiting and retention, an article published Monday says.
Numerous articles have detailed the Army’s recruiting woes in the wake of two ongoing US wars [...]

New Reports from DoD

The DoD Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) and Defense Science Board (DSB) have recently released a number of interesting reports:
The CBDP 2009 Annual Report to Congress discusses DoD’s progress in protecting the nation and its allies from WMD threats. Previous versions of the report can be found here.
Several DSB [...]

Humboldt cities take on military recruiting — and U.S.

ARCATA – David was sitting in a coffee shop when he first got the idea to take on Goliath.
The “David” in this story has a last name of Meserve. The “Goliath” is less metaphorically known as the United States government.
And the tale revolves around a first-of-its-kind effort by two small Humboldt [...]

Pentagon Moves to Shut Down ‘Mullah FM’

Those of you hoping to tune into your favorite Taliban DJ are going to have to find something else on the dial. The Department of Defense, the Wall Street Journal reports, is launching a new covert war against the Taliban’s communications infrastructure in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Pentagon planners are reportedly working [...]

Pentagon accused of pig victimization

Animal rights activists take issue with the Pentagon’s alleged mistreatment of swine after revelations that military researchers have been blowing up pigs to check the efficacy of body armor worn by American soldiers.
Under the research guided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), live pigs have been dressed in [...]

DoD: Sexual assault reports increased in 2008

Reports of sexual assaults involving military victims or perpetrators are on the rise — more than 8 percent over the previous fiscal year — and increased more than three times as much in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pentagon’s new report to Congress also says the number of cases that were sent to [...]

Major RAND study with 300 interviews: Intelligence Operations and Metrics in Iraq and Afghanistan, Nov 2008

This major November, 2008 RAND Corporation study on intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, conducted 300 interviews at all levels with US, UK and Dutch intelligence officers and diplomats.
The 318 page document could be described as part of the “Pentagon Papers” for Iraq and Afghanistan. It was confidentially prepared for the [...]

Blackwater founder, CEO resigns

(CNN) – Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater Worldwide security firm, announced Monday he has resigned as head of the company, recently renamed Xe.
Prince, in an e-mail to employees and independent contractors, said Danielle Esposito will become chief operating officer and executive vice president. Esposito has worked for the [...]

Focus on Fusion Centers –

The Department of Homeland Security has produced a new “Concept of Operations” (pdf) to define how the Department will support and oversee the network of dozens of “fusion centers” that have been established around the country.  The fusion centers are intended to promote a collaborative approach among federal, state [...]

Wake Up Call: Activists Visit “The Army Experience”

On Monday, February 16th about 50 activists decided to take a trip to the Franklin Mills Mall right outside Philadelphia, PA to get their look at a new “store”. “The Army Experience” (AEC), as it is called, built by the taxpayers to the tune of $12 [...]

Of Children and “Cyber Wars,” Another Witchhunt to Fund

February 17, 2009: The U.S. Department of Defense tries to keep track of countries that have established Cyber War organizations, or just capabilities. Now Germany has joined the ranks of countries with a formal Cyber War organization. Germany is putting together a Cyber War unit. It is small, with [...]

Rumsfeld’s Plan to “Fight the Internet”

A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military’s plans for “information operations” – from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
Bloggers beware.
As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer.
From influencing public [...]

NSA Whistleblower Tells More on Illegal Wiretapping of US Citizens (videos)

On January 21, former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice appeared Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC show. Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, told Olbermann government programs designed to spy on the American people are more extensive and far reaching than previously admitted. “The National Security [...]

Army Manual Promotes Christianity to Combat Epidemic of Suicides

The U.S. Army’s suicide prevention manual advises military chaplains to promote “religiosity,” specifically Christianity, as a way to deter distraught soldiers from taking their own lives, according to an amended federal lawsuit filed last week against Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the Department of Defense.
The 2008 Army Suicide Prevention [...]

Air Force Announces “Counter-Blog” Propaganda Program

Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don’t be surprised. They’re just following the service’s new “counter-blogging” flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force’s public affairs arm, airmen are given [...]

Feds Act Against Eureka, Arcata Over Voted Measures to Restrict Military Recruiter Access to Minors

EUREKA — Emergency closed-session City Council meetings last night in Eureka and later today in Arcata were called as local officials scrambled to respond to a notice of pending legal action in United States District Court to invalidate two ballot measures adopted by voters in each city on Nov. 4.
The Department [...]

The Pentagon is muscling in everywhere. It’s time to stop the mission creep

We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a striking number of aspects of civilian [...]

Yucca Valley Council Objects to Marine Base Expansion

YUCCA VALLEY – The Town Council took a stand on the proposed expansion of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Thursday by approving a resolution granting them stakeholder status to the process.
This item was added to the council’s agenda last week to meet a filing deadline date of Dec. 15.
The [...]

DoE Seeks to Limit “Public Interest” FOIA Disclosures

A proposed new Department of Energy regulation would eliminate the so-called “public interest” balancing test that encourages DOE officials to release information under the Freedom of Information Act even when it is legally exempt from disclosure if doing so would serve the public interest.

Pentagon to Recruit Foreigners on Visas

WASHINGTON – Struggling to find enough doctors, nurses and linguists for the war effort, the Pentagon will temporarily recruit foreigners who have been living in the United States on student and work visas, or with refugee or political asylum status.

Pentagon Targets Afro and Hispanic Youth to Fight Its Wars

If African-Americans are overrepresented in the armed forces it is likely because of the military’s practice of “strategically targeting low-income youth and students of color,” the ACLU has found.Result: While African-Americans make up only 16% of the same-age civilian population, in 2006 they represented about 22% of enlisted Army personnel.
Even [...]

Spy drone ‘Predator,’ reflects what US has become

TUCSON — The bad news is that the US Border Patrol has four drones flying out of Fort Huachuca over the US/Mexico border for surveillance. One drone has already crashed near Nogales and these unmanned aerial planes, provided first by Israel’s Apartheid spy technology maker, Elbit Systems, are a risk to the lives of those [...]