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China denies military exercise aimed at US
China denied on Tuesday media reports that an artillery drill in the East China Sea was in response to a planned military exercise between South Korea and the United States. The 6-day, live ammunition exercise starting on Wednesday in the East China Sea off China’s coast was seen by some…
Pentagon appeals to defense industry for lower cost weapons, services
The Pentagon on Monday told the US defense industry to bring down costs and find more savings in a “new era” of more modest military spending. Ashton Carter, chief arms buyer for the Pentagon, delivered the belt-tightening message to a gathering of hundreds of defense chief executives and senior managers…
Obama relieves McChrystal of command, promotes Petraeus
President Barack Obama has relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of the US military’s forces in Afghanistan, of command. In his speech to the press at 1:45 PM ET, Obama emphasized that his decision came in part because he believes it it is imperative that the US military understands it is…
Pentagon revives Rumsfeld-era domestic spying unit
The Pentagon’s spy unit has quietly begun to rebuild a database for tracking potential terrorist threats that was shut down after it emerged that it had been collecting information on American anti-war activists. The Defense Intelligence Agency filed notice this week that it plans to create a new section called…
Pentagon complains of ‘negative’ picture of Afghan war
WASHINGTON  The Pentagon on Thursday said US-led forces are making headway against the Taliban, despite what it called an overly gloomy portrayal of the war shaped by media coverage. US and NATO troops have taken back territory from insurgents over the past year and bolstered security across the country,…
Pentagon backs off ban on four Guantanamo reporters
WASHINGTON  Four reporters who were banned from covering trials at Guantanamo have been offered an opportunity to be reinstated by requesting it in writing, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Wednesday. Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon public affairs official, made the offer in a letter responding to an appeal by three…
Pentagon report in April never mentioned $1 trillion in Afghan wealth
Original goal of Pentagon task force that performed Afghan minerals survey was to get “contracts going between US firms and Iraqi firms” A RAW STORY investigation has revealed that a report released by the Pentagon last April on the progress of the Afghanistan “surge” included only a single passing reference…
Update: Wikileaks ‘confirms’ it has video of US massacre in Afghanistan
The whistleblower website that posted video of a US Army helicopter firing on unarmed civilians and killing two Reuters employees is ready to do it again, its founder says. (A screenshot of the clip appears at right; video available at this link.) Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange says he has obtained…
‘Discovery’ of Afghan riches a pro-war PR scam?
A New York Times report announcing the US has found $1 trillion-worth of mineral deposits in Afghanistan has some observers wondering if the news is part of a public-relations effort to bolster support for the Afghanistan war as the mission’s death toll continues to climb. An article in Sunday’s New…
US ‘desperately’ trying to keep Wikileaks from publishing US communications about Arab states
Philip Shenon, a former New York Times reporter now writing for Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast, alleged late Thursday that the Pentagon is “desperately” searching for the founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks, out of concern he is about to publish classified US State Department cables. Curiously, the piece cites…
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