‘Cicadas': US military’s new swarm of mini-drones
AFP, By Don De Luce, May 16 Washington – US military scientists have invented a miniature drone that fits in the palm of a hand, ready to be dropped from the sky like a mobile phone with wings. The...
View ArticleU.S. rushing new weapons to Iraq as Islamic State advances in Ramadi
McClatchy, By Mitchell Prothero, May 15 Irbil – The Islamic State on Friday took control of the provincial government center of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s largest province, and appeared to be in...
View ArticleThe US Military’s Sexual-Assault Problem Is So Bad the UN Is Getting Involved
Several countries told the US its policies on justice for military sexual assault victims weren’t good enough. Mother Jones, By Jenna McLaughlin, May 14 The US military has a problem with sexual...
View ArticleThe Watchdog, the Whistleblower, and the Secret CIA Torture Report
VICE News, By Jason Leopold, May 19 On June 9, 2010, a CIA employee working on a secret review of millions of pages of documents about the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” program contacted the CIA’s...
View ArticleU.S. doctor sanctioned for ‘abhorrent and abnormal’ troop training
Reuters, By John Shiffman, June 19 Richmond, VA – A state board revoked the license of a former U.S. Army doctor on Friday, finding that he plied students with hypnotic drugs during battlefield-trauma...
View ArticleWest Point professor calls on US military to target legal critics of war on...
US military academy official William Bradford argues that attacks on scholars’ home offices and media outlets – along with Islamic holy sites – are legitimate The Guardian, By Spencer Ackerman, August...
View Article‘I’m praying for you’: MSF posts grim details from Afghan hospital strike
AFP, By Hashim Safi, November 5 Medical charity MSF Thursday released chilling details from a devastating US bombing of an Afghan hospital, saying staff and patients had been decapitated and lost their...
View ArticleOne Year After the Senate Torture Report, No One’s Read It and It Might Be...
The Intercept, By Murtaza Hussain, December 9 One year ago today, the Senate Intelligence Committee published a highly redacted executive summary of its investigation into the CIA’s torture and...
View ArticleTorture by Iraqi militias: the report Washington did not want you to see
Two unpublished investigations show that the United States has consistently overlooked killings and torture by Iraqi government-sponsored Shi’ite militias. Reuters, By Ned Parker, December 14 Erbil,...
View ArticleNavy Uses US Citizens as Pawns in Domestic War Games
Truthout, By Dahr Jamail, January 11 Beginning in mid-January, Navy SEALs will be practicing unannounced and clandestine combat beach landings across Washington State’s Puget Sound and many other...
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