Biological Warfare and the National Security State: A Chronology

(The Intelligence Daily) -- The history of bioweapons research in the United States is a history of illicit--and illegal--human experiments. From the Cold War to the War on Terror, successive American administrations have turned a blind eye on dubious research rightly characterized as having "a little of the Buchenwald touch." While the phrase may have come from the files of the Atomic Energy Commission as Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Eileen Welsome revealed in her 1999 book, The Plutonium Files, an investigation into secret American...

Obama Admin. Asks High Court to Hear Torture Photo Case

(The Intelligence Daily) -- The Obama administration today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a court ruling requiring the release of photos depicting the abuse of prisoners held in...

Afghan War: NATO Builds History's First Global Army

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Two months before the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of NATO's first-ever ground war the world is witness to a 21st Century armed...

No Letup in Political Witch-Hunts Under Obama

(The Intelligence Daily) -- For eight years, the Bush administration relentlessly targeted Muslim, environmental, and animal rights activists as national security or terrorist threats. Shamefully,...

Echo Platoon: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland

(Tomdispatch) -- Echo Platoon is part of the 82nd Replacement Detachment of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Soldiers in the platoon are relegated to living quarters in a set...

US Still Paying Blackwater Millions

Comment: Really????????????????????? Just days before two former Blackwater employees alleged in sworn statements filed in federal court that the company's owner, Erik Prince, "views himself as a...

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