Admiral Fallon, former head of CentCom, the top commander of the American forces in the middle east aprubtly resigned on March 11, but we were assured it had nothing to do with Iran or any plans to attack.
Then, on March 19th, we were told that the Pentagon had shuffled Admiral Fallon out of […]

Admiral Fallon resigned his post as head of CentCom this afternoon, though the European Press seems pretty clear that he was pushed out.

A voice on the tee vee says that Defense Secretary Gates gave Admiral Fallon the message - that he should resign - by refusing to take his phone calls. Refusing to take […]

Okay, here’s a hypothetical: It’s 2000 and John McCain is the darling of the GOP. He is, in a way, the Barack Obama of 2000 - suddenly offering a very credible threat, to the annointed front runner who, in 2000, was George W. Bush.
Since McCain was thwarted by the unabashed racism of Bush’s […]

If we are to believe Matthew Cole in this morning’s Salon much of the aid that’s gone to the Bush administration’s good buddy, Gen. Musharraf, is ending up not only NOT being used to fight the taliban but the reverse. Our own money is being used to support and finance our deadly enemy, the […]

It’s convenient, isn’t it, when those damn eco-terrorists - out of nowhere - decide to burn a suite of eco-friendly luxury homes.
We know that it had to be these terrorists because - well - they left a sign. (No need for forensic evidence here.) Time was terrorists used to have kill or […]

Up to 70% of US aid to Pakistan ‘misspent’
We’ve been giving General, President (whatever) Musharraf up to $80 Million per month to fight AQ in the remote “tribal” areas.
It’s now believed that up to $4 Billion has gone…who knows where. Surely, protecting UBL, and Dr. Khan while eliminating former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto couldn’t have […]

Why isn’t this deteriorating situation along the Turkish border a bigger source of worry?
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Iraqi Kurdish officials on Friday ordered 6,000 Kurdish militiamen to take up new positions in Iraq’s Dohuk province as hundreds of Turkish troops crossed the border in what Turkey said was an attack on Kurdish rebels who’d sought shelter […]

From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the U.S.
The Chicago Tribune has all the horrific details. It’s a mind-boggling expose and probably only begins to scratch the surface.
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We’ve been talking about these latest developments in the Sibel Edmonds case ever since the Times of London helped break her silence back on January 6th. (You can find our previous articles about the case from Jan 6th - here , Jan. 24th - here , and Jan. […]

This is a great video, and nicely summarizes what all this wasteful, no-bid, mercenary-laden warfare is bringing us.

Of course, this is not a new way of looking at war and war industries.No one less then that great appeaser, President Dwight D. Eisenhower himself appears to have shared those views:

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