In an event today at the White House, President Barack Obama called for a crackdown on wasteful defense spending and said there must be more competition in the contracting process. Obama declared the "days of giving defense contractors a blank check are over." The...
Just one day after the Obama Administration declared an end to America's four-year long diplomatic embargo of the Syrian government, US Ambassador to the IAEA Gregory Schulte claimed there was "growing evidence of clandestine nuclear activities in Syria." The...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lashed out at the Iranian government today, declaring them a threat to the Middle East, Europe and Russia. Clinton also claimed that "it is clear that Iran intends to interfere with the internal affairs of all of these people."...
A report issued today by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) warned that the Israeli government believes that it still retains the ability to destroy Iran's nuclear program with a unilateral attack, and as the international community's diplomatic...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's decision earlier this month to overturn the ruling of the Election Commission to delay the election to August 20 has itself been overturned, and the commission has once again set the date for August 20. Holding the election in August...
As Japan continues to fret over a planned test launch in North Korea, the military is preparing to deploy the "Son of Star Wars" missile defense system in case they decide to try to shoot down a North Korean rocket. "If it is capable of reaching Japan then it goes...
Terrorist attacks in troubled Pakistan are nothing new, but today's attack in Lahore, which killed six police and two civilian bystanders and injured several others seems to have captured the attention of not just the nation, but much of the world as well. The 12...
As the bloody drug war between the Mexican government and the assorted drug cartels along the US border continues to escalate, one US Defense Department official has revealed that the Pentagon estimates that the cartels have at their disposal over 100,000 troops,...
The reports yesterday that the Obama Administration has offered to abandon the missile defense shield in Eastern Europe in return for Russian help in diplomatic measures against the Iranian government were publicly responded to by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev...
Sri Lanka once again rejected international calls for a ceasefire in their several decade long war against Tamil separatists yesterday, declaring that the fighting would only stop when the rebels lay down their arms. But as the war rages on, the Sri Lankan military...
