By Chris Rodda (Talk To Action) On May 13, 2010, about eighty sol­diers, sta­tioned at Fort Eustis while attend­ing a train­ing course, were pun­ished for opt­ing out of attend­ing one of these Chris­t­ian con­certs. The head­liner at this con­cert was a Chris­t­ian rock band called Bar­low­Girl, a band that describes itself as tak­ing “an...
Read more »

Due to its claimed use in ter­ror­ism, pos­ses­sion of the Casio F91W watch was listed in Com­bat­ant Sta­tus Review Tri­bunal reports and other gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments as a rea­son for these detainees’ con­tin­ued deten­tion. The watch was pop­u­lar all over the Moslem world because it had great prayer alert fea­tures. Among those listed: Abdul­lah Kamel...
Read more »

By Dave Lin­dorff (Com­mon Dreams) The 2011 mil­i­tary bud­get, by the way, is the largest in his­tory, not just in actual dol­lars, but in infla­tion adjusted dol­lars, exceed­ing even the spend­ing in World War II, when the nation was on an all-​​out mil­i­tary footing. Mil­i­tary spend­ing in all its myr­iad forms works out to...
Read more »

I heard of how doubts about the legal­ity of inva­sion were the clos­est the British mil­i­tary had come to mutiny. Of how the Pen­ta­gon tried to freeze out the State Depart­ment by speak­ing at joint meet­ings entirely in acronyms that only Pen­ta­gon staff would under­stand. And of how Don­ald Rums­feld weeded out from those...
Read more »

By Joseph Rhee, Tah­man Bradley and Brian Ross (ABC) Coded ref­er­ences to New Tes­ta­ment Bible pas­sages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-​​powered rifle sights pro­vided to the United States mil­i­tary by a Michi­gan com­pany, an ABC News inves­ti­ga­tion has found. One of the cita­tions on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an appar­ent ref­er­ence to...
Read more »

By Eric Timmons (The Reg­is­ter Mail) Spec. Billy Miller, 24, was due to return from Afghanistan last Sep­tem­ber, but his tour of duty has been invol­un­tar­ily extended while he awaits a court mar­tial on charges of fail­ing to obey a gen­eral order and pos­ses­sion of child pornography. Miller’s mother, Terri, said the fam­ily e-​​mailed...
Read more »

By Sher­wood Ross (LA Pro­gres­sive) Thou­sands of GIs have suf­fered pre­ventable hear­ing loss because they were not sup­plied with earplugs to reduce the din of bat­tle. Many have a per­ma­nent ring­ing in their ears they will suf­fer through­out their lives. The con­di­tion is wide­spread. In 2006, the Vet­er­ans Admin­is­tra­tion paid out more than a half bil­lion...
Read more »