One reason this is bad. CNN 2019: "the Defense Department network consistently ranks in the top tier of internet service providers for trafficking child pornography"https://t.co/Kkqisd0AZV — Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) March 23, 2021
The Department of Defence has decided to end its contract with a mysterious group of scientists who had worked with the DoD since early Cold War, Gizmodo reports. With their funding cut abruptly, the group will now scramble to find …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nck09gfdQ70 Here’s the entire Pentagon Paper Archive for ya: https://www.archives.gov/research/pen…
via antiwar: When the Pentagon starts throwing around estimates of who got killed and how in its assorted wars in the Middle East, they are often wildly inaccurate. Nowhere was this more apparent than a new briefing this week on …
via bracingviews: Missile Envy W.J. Astore I grew up on a steady diet of threat inflation. Before I was born, bomber and missile “gaps” had been falsely touted as showing the Soviet Union was ahead of the U.S. in developing nuclear-capable …
via fair.org: You may not know it, but bloated Pentagon budgets are actually “progressive.” Or so says a recent opinion piece in Bloomberg News (3/17/19), “Progressives Should Learn to Love the Pentagon Budget,” by Hal Brands. Bloomberg identifies Brands as the “Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor …
It appears it really will be another promise made and another promise kept by an American president who continues to confound his enemies and delight his tens of millions of supporters both in the United States and around the world. …
via Matt Taibbi When the Defense Department flunked its first-ever fiscal review, one of our government’s greatest mysteries was exposed: Where does the DoD’s $700 billion annual budget go? A retired Air Force auditor — we’ll call him Andy — tells …
via Zerohedge: Pentagon spokesman Charles Summers said Friday morning that there will be “grave consequences” if Turkey moves forward in purchasing Russia’s S-400, according to Bloomberg — this after the top US commander in Europe, Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, recommended …
Lockheed Martin has been given a billion dollar contract to provide THAAD missile systems for Saudi Arabia. This decision to continue to give the Saudis arms comes at a time when Congress is mulling implementing their own sanctions against SA …
by TFittonJW If generals and colonels at Pentagon, rather than lawyers and agents at DOJ/FBI, were caught talking about overthrowing a president would there be any doubt that it would be called a coup attempt? The ongoing coup against @realDonaldTrump …
#BREAKING: Defense department officials say the Pentagon is prepared to give $3 billion to fund construction of the President's southern border wall, if he were to declare a national emergency. #OANN — Jenn Franco (@jennfranconews) January 10, 2019 Senate Judiciary …
by Geoffrey Grider The strategic American military system for moving troops, weapons, and supplies over long distances has decayed significantly and needs rapid upgrading to be ready for any future war with China or Russia, according to a report by …
$21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions “could not be traced, documented, or explained.” $21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon. And that’s …
The Pentagon is clawing back hundreds of millions of taxpayer-subsidized dollars it gifted to Saudi Arabia and the UAE over a three-year period, when it ‘accidentally’ refueled their aircraft for free during their war on Yemen. US Central Command is …
by Thinker American soldiers who should be protecting the fields that feed that people, and not those that supply the world with dope!!! Only war in Afghanistan, is the one to keep the drugs (poppy fields) flowing and the profits …
by Ron Paul The Pentagon has finally completed its first ever audit and the results are as many of us expected. After spending nearly a billion dollars to find out what has happened to trillions in unaccounted-for spending, the long …
by Thinker How could anyone have thought the Pentagon could have passed, when in 2001 they announced they couldn’t find $2.3 trillion dollars, it just disappeared. Since there wasn’t an outrage or march on Washington about the missing trillions, that …
by stockboardasset The B61 nuclear gravity bomb, deployed at most U.S. Air Force and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military bases, has almost five decades of service, making it the oldest bomb in the US stockpile. Numerous programs have modified the B61 for …
via thenationalsentinel: Penetration: The Obama era was particularly hard on the U.S. military, as the administration and Congress refused to pass real budgets which prevented the services from investing in high-tech systems, including those designed to protect our most vital assets. This was again …
by Thinker I do not recall any outrage over this one. The article below implies that the analyst’s security clearance was pulled because he was stirring the pot over some irregularities he was seeing. Can we safely assume that this …
by Thinker A Defense Department project to optimize the M4A1 carbines used by U.S. Special Operations Command for continuous suppressed use is moving forward. On Tuesday, firearms maker Sig Sauer announced it had received a $48 million DoD contract to …
by Thinker What’s under the White House and Camp David, having the Trumps taking the weekend on property they feel comfortable being on? What did the learn that they weren’t told that has them looking at their staff and people …
Wolf here: Amazon is a mega-force in online retail. The “Amazon effect” is everywhere. But even for Amazon (AMZN), it’s hard to make money on its online retail operations. Amazon, through its division AWS, also owns a big part of …
by Thinker Easy to spend other peoples money for desires that don’t necessary serve the people, but a military industrial complex that has lost over $9 trillions dollars that can’t be found, and receives billions a year to continue to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05FuHNUlEk It would help more to refund the taxpayers money ! NO MORE SUBSIDIES ! WE WANT AUDITS FROM EVERY GOVERNMENT DEPT TW
by Chris Black Motto: the Empire Strikes Out President Trump announced on Monday during a press conference that he is aiming at creating a Space Force as soon as possible, and he already ordered the Pentagon to “make it so”. …
by stockboardasset The U.S. Army’s Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters have fewer capabilities for critical missions than the Russian-made Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name: Hip) helicopters operating in Afghanistan’s Air Force, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s inspector general. Afghan Armed …
Josh Sigurdson does another Freedom Minute update, this time on a mysterious story, something we wouldn’t usually go into. A UFO was caught stalking a U.S. aircraft carrier for days in November 2004 according to newly released Pentagon documents. The …
by andthenisawtheblood Really curious to hear some of your thoughts on this, as I’ve seen “ethical investing” come up from time to time. Here’s a couple articles on the subject: Google Won’t Seek to Renew Pentagon Contract After Internal Backlash (Short …