Free Talk Live - Military / Defense

Obama Serves 14-State Governors With Warnings of Arrest

anothermark — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:04:37 +0000

Barack Hussein Obama had served 14-State Governors in the United States, National Security Letters (NSLs) warning that the Governor’s actions in attempting to form “State Defense Forces” needs to be halted “immediately” or they will face arrest for the crime of treason. The employment of NSLs was authorized by the Patriot Act introduced by George W. Bush. Contained within the section related to these letters, it is forbidden for anyone receiving a NSL warning to even acknowledge the existence of said communication

US Army says "Thanks, but no more Tanks", but Politicians Insist...

kelvin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:11:29 +0000

"The Army is on record saying we do not require any additional M1A2s," Davis Welch, deputy director of the Army budget office, said this month. Sean Kennedy, director of research for the nonpartisan Citizens Against Government Waste, said Congress should listen when one of the military services says no to more quipment.
"When an institution as risk averse as the Defense Department says they have enough tanks, we can probably believe them," Kennedy said.

Army Labeled Evangelicals as Religious Extremists

Mattfree88 — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:46:05 +0000

Army Labeled Evangelicals as Religious Extremists

A U.S. Army training instructor listed Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as examples of religious extremism along with Al Qaeda and Hamas during a briefing with an Army Reserve unit based in Pennsylvania, Fox News has learned.
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Neglected History: US Gov't Attacked Protesting Veterans

StrayLite — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:12:21 +0000

Another event history that is ignored in government indoctrination camps (public schools). This is an egregious example of how the US government has mistreated veterans. How many people know that Gen MacArthur attacked prtoesting veterans in Washington DC in the 20th Century?

Marines' 'Poster Boy' for Suicide Prevention Kills Self

anon4k — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:24:06 +0000

Marines' 'Poster Boy' for Suicide Prevention Kills Self

UK stripping terrorism suspects of citizenship

Jking8767 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:22:39 +0000

From the UK, more fodder for the debate over the US drone assassination campaign and the acceptability of killing citizens: In early February, a leaked white paper from the Obama Justice Department caused a small stir, because it laid out an expansive set of circumstances under which the president could order a citizen killed abroad. In September 2011, the US killed Al Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, both US citizens, and a few weeks later a US drone strike in Yemen also killed Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman.

US military suicides in charts: how they overtook combat deaths

iamodd999 — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:27:13 +0000

suicides have never been so high since data was recorded: up to 349 for 2012.

It exceeded the Pentagon's own internal projection of 325. US government began closely tracking suicides in 2001 through the Department of Defense Suicide Event Report (DoDSER). It exceeds the 311 Americans who died in war zones last year.

Private navy to provide security where state navies failed.

Jordan Viray — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:02:52 +0000

British entrepreneur Antony Sharp is starting a company which will provide armed escorts to ships transiting through the pirate infested Gulf of Aden. He hopes his company, Typhon [sic], will fill in the large security hole left by state-run navies.

MLK's view of US militarism

Jking8767 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:36:26 +0000

The civil right achievements of Martin Luther King are quite justly the focus of the annual birthday commemoration of his legacy. But it is remarkable, as I've noted before on this holiday, how completely his vehement anti-war advocacy is ignored when commemorating his life (just as his economic views are). By King's own description, his work against US violence and militarism, not only in Vietnam but generally, was central - indispensable - to his worldview and activism, yet it has been almost completely erased from how he is remembered.