Joseph Cirincione, Foreign Policy. July 24, 2008. Bucking the wishes of top Pentagon officials, Bush is pushing one of the largest military buildups in history.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. July 18, 2008. The U.S. is currently spending between $55 and $66 billion a year on intelligence. So why can't we find Osama bin Laden?
Allen McDuffee, AlterNet. July 1, 2008. The U.S. government is putting more and more of its budget for foreign military funding in the hands of the Pentagon. Where is the money going?
Nick Penniman, American News Project. June 14, 2008. Video: The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems, but troops still aren't getting what they need.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. June 10, 2008. How Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Deirdre Jurand, Jurist Legal News and Research AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. June 2, 2008. Binyam Mohamed was detained in Pakistan and allegedly tortured at the behest of the Bush Administration. He could be executed if convicted.
Frida Berrigan, Tomdispatch.com. May 28, 2008. The Pentagon has developed a taste for unrivaled power and unequaled access to the treasury that won't be easily undone by future administrations.
Middle East OnlineMay 27, 2008. In a stunning accountability failure, out of $8.2 billion in U.S. taxpayer funded defense contracts for Iraq, $7.7 billion seems to be missing.
Josh Silver, Huffington Post. May 26, 2008. You probably didn't hear about the House voting to ban Pentagon propaganda -- since the networks have failed to cover the story.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. May 22, 2008. In the new film Iron Man, the people cast as terrorists take the fall for what the U.S. has done in the real world.
Allen McDuffee, The Nation. May 19, 2008. We know the military has lowered the bar for enlisting, but few realize how much money we're paying the DoD for their shady recruitment practices.
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. May 5, 2008. The Pentagon wants to Disney-fy the Green Zone and create a lasting cultural footprint in Baghdad.
Roberto Lovato, Of America AlterNet: PEEK. May 5, 2008. Cinco de Mayo has become a recruiting ground for a military struggling to sustain troop levels.
Diane Farsetta, Center for Media and Democracy. May 5, 2008. The Pentagon pundit scandal was not only a corrupt marriage of propaganda and corporate lobbying -- it was completely illegal.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. April 29, 2008. The Pentagon says it's halting its propaganda program, but the news media is still quite about its role in leading us to war.
