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 […]
DoD Blatantly Admits on Twitter It Works With Hollywood to Sell You War Propaganda…
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 […]
U.S., South Korea Postpone Joint Military Exercises Until After Winter Olympics…
The United States and South Korean governments have agreed to postpone joint military exercises until after next month’s Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, a move that comes after South Korea offered to hold talks with North Korea about the winter games next week. In a readout of President Trump’s phone call with South Korean […]
New Audit Finds $21 Trillion in Unauthorized Spending by Federal Government…
Earlier this year, a Michigan University economist, working with graduate students and a former governmental official, found $21 trillion in unauthorized spending in the departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development for the years of 1198-2015. Now, the Department of Defense has announced it will conduct the first department-wide, independent audit in its history. […]
Pentagon’s Top Weapons Buyer to John McCain: ‘Excuse me, we hold people responsible’…
Ellen Lord, the Defense Department’s acquisition chief, said Wednesday that a shakeup of department personnel overseeing weapons purchasing programs is already in the works after facing tough questioning from Sen. John McCain about government waste. A review of staff in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and military services is looking at whether or […]
‘The Message From Mattis Is Basically Square Your Shit’: DoD Scrambles for Facts in Niger…
In the month since four Army Special Forces and five local security forces troops were killed by jihadi-aligned militants in Niger, the Department of Defense has insisted that the ambush was a complete surprise, catching the joint patrol off guard while they were on a routine mission to meet with local leaders in a village […]
Obama Team Was Warned in 2014 about Russian Interference…
The Obama administration received multiple warnings from national security officials between 2014 and 2016 that the Kremlin was ramping up its intelligence operations and building disinformation networks it could use to disrupt the U.S. political system, according to more than half a dozen current and former officials. As early as 2014, the administration…