The three military exchange services pulled all smartphones made by Chinese electronics manufacturers Huawei and ZTE from stores around the world and banned their sale because of the security risks the devices pose, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The Defense Department’s undersecretary for personnel and readiness issued a ban of “all Huawei and ZTE cellphones, personal […]
Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2017…
World military expenditure is estimated to have reached $1739 billion in 2017, the highest level since the end of the cold war. After 13 consecutive years of increases from 1999 to 2011 and relatively unchanged spending from 2012 to 2016, total global expenditure rose marginally in 2017, by 1.1 per cent in real terms. This […]
Syria – Threat Of Large War Recedes But May Come Back…
The expected U.S. attack on Syria last night did not happen. Today U.S President Trump seemed to pull back from his earlier attempt to pressure Russia over a faked chemical incident in Ghouta, Syria: Trump – Never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at […]
Haley, Mattis Divided on Evidence of Syria Gas Attack…
Germany, Italy Refuse to Join Syria Airstrikes…
“There Wasn’t a Single Corpse”: Russia Claims ‘White Helmets’ Staged Syria Chemical Attack…
DoD Blatantly Admits on Twitter It Works With Hollywood to Sell You War Propaganda…
This week, the Department of Defense sent out an interesting Tweet where they openly admitted that they control how the US government is portrayed in Hollywood films. While this is a fact that has been documented for many years, it is still largely overlooked by mainstream media sources, who insist that this idea is nothing […]
Trump Tells Pentagon to Plan for Military Parade on Veterans Day…
President Donald Trump wants to hold his proposed military parade on Veterans Day, a date that would increase significance to the first public U.S. military procession since the Gulf War’s end. Trump directed Pentagon planners to organize a Nov. 11 parade in the nation’s capital, according to an unclassified memo National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster […]
The Federal Government Can’t Account for $21 Trillion. Does Anybody Care?…
On September 10, 2001, then Secretary of the Department of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that for the 1999 DOD budget, “According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.” The War On Waste The following day the US sustained the terrorist attacks that forever changed our world, and this startling revelation was largely […]
AUDIT: Afghanistan Watchdog Releases Audit of Defense Department Spending…
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, received the results of an audit he requested in 2016, along with then-Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The audit is the result of conscientious oversight efforts conducted by Grassley over several years […]