The Pentagon will face stricter operating and reporting rules under the major defense authorization bill heading to the White House for President Trump’s signature, as U.S. military leaders find themselves under fire for what critics say is a failure to account for and minimize civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes and military operations. The latest rules, […]
Bipartisan Bill Could Give Any President the Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military Detention Forever…
ONE OF THE most outrageous acts of Barack Obama’s presidency was his failure to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012. The fiscal year 2012 NDAA included provisions that appeared to both codify and expand a power the executive branch had previously claimed to possess — namely, the power to hold individuals, […]
House to Vote on Giving Amazon $53B Deal to Become Main Pentagon Supplier…
Members of the US House of Representatives and Senate Armed Services committees announced Wednesday that they have reached agreement on the proposed $700 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense spending bill. This astronomical figure—an $80 billion increase over spending in 2016 and roughly $26 billion more than was requested by President Donald […]
Obama Quietly Signs The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act” Into Law…
Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017…
More on Obama’s ‘Anti-Propaganda Agency’…
Russia Warns Any Attempt by Obama to Arm Syrian Rebels Will Be Seen as a “Hostile Act”…
Russia also joined the global opposition to the US defense policy bill when it said on Tuesday that a U.S. decision to ease some restrictions on arming Syrian rebels had opened the way for deliveries of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, a move it said would directly threaten Russian forces in Syria…
The U.S. Is Going to Get It’s Very Own ‘Ministry of Truth’…Senate Quietly Passes the “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act”…
Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act has passed the Senate as part of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report. The bill will establish “an interagency center housed at the State Department to coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts throughout the U.S. government.”
Obama Grants Waiver for Military Support of Foreign Fighters (aka Hired Mercenaries) in Syria…
President Barack Obama has ordered a waiver of restrictions on military aid for foreign forces and others in Syria, deeming it “essential to the national security interests” of the US to allow exceptions from provisions in the four-decades-old Arms Export Control Act…