U.S. and U.K. to Strengthen Yemeni Security and the UN
In the wake of a nearly fatal display of U.S. security and intelligence agencies inability to protect the United States from airborne terrorists,...
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Suicide Bomb Attack at Afghan CIA Base
A suicide bomber somehow managed to gain entry to a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan on December 30 and detonated explosives that killed...
Read moreU.S. Navy Attempted-Suicide Rate Near 3 Percent
The Navy Times website reported on December 28 that a Defense Department survey of service members for 2008 showed a higher attempted-suicide rate...
Read moreU.S. Troops Increasingly Unwelcome in Japan
As reported by TheNewAmerican.com several months ago, the United States is presently shifting tens of thousands of military personal and family members from...
Read moreVeterans Group Calls for Refusal to Deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq
In what is sure to be a controversial call to action or inaction, the organization March Forward, a group of patriotic retired and...
Read moreAmerican UN Official Wanted Karzai Replaced
Kai Eide, the Norwegian diplomat who is the UN Special Representative to Afghanistan, has said his former deputy — Peter W. Galbraith, an...
Read moreNo Deadline for U.S. Exit From Afghanistan
Obama administration officials on December 6 made it perfectly clear that American military forces will remain in Afghanistan for a long time, playing...
Read moreObama’s Afghan Troop Surge for 100 al-Qaeda
President Barack Obama’s December 1 speech at West Point was meant to justify sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan at a cost...
Read moreMarine Commander To President: Give Me More Afghanis, Not More Marines
The commanding general of the Marine Corps in southern Afghanistan has a message for President Obama: We need more troops on the ground,...
Read moreObama Afghan Strategy Taken from Bush’s Playbook
Before he had finished invoking the blessings of God upon the nation he was elected to lead, researchers and pundits had evaluated every...
Read moreMore Americans Think U.S. Should “Mind its Own Business”
A poll released on December 3 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press revealed that 49 percent of Americans believe...
Read moreObama Escalates War in Afghanistan
President Obama announced December 1 he would immediately begin deploying an additional 30,000 U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan, an escalation that would be complete...
Read morePresident Obama’s ‘Nice Guy Act’ Wearing Thin?
Rodney Dangerfield made a very profitable career off his famous lament, “I can’t get no respect.” Seems these days that President Obama knows...
Read moreObama Sells Out to the Neocons
The Obama administration is close to announcing its decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Reuters reports that the "final number [of troops...
Read moreHigh Army Suicide Rate & U.S. Foreign Policy
Reuters and other media organs have reported that the suicide rate in the United States Army is twice the national suicide rate and...
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