Obama to gun owners: You have ‘nothing to fear’…President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that lawful gun owners have “nothing to fear” from his incoming administration so there is no reason for Americans to stock up on guns.
12,000 troops see tours extended…Pentagon’s ’stop-loss’ provision blocks return of thousands at tour’s end.
[...]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com…
NBC has released an excerpt from the interview in which Obama announces that tomorrow, on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, he will name General Eric Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Shinseki gained fame for losing his job in the Bush Administration after he testified to Congress that an occupation of Iraq would require hundreds [...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk…
By Gordon Corera
Security correspondent, BBC News
The tribunals used for putting suspects on trial at Guantanamo Bay are a “stain on America’s military”, a former military prosecutor has told the BBC in his first interview since resigning.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk…
Jeremy Page in Delhi
The Indian Army has been shocked by the arrest of a senior Military Intelligence officer on suspicion of involvement in a bomb attack by Hindu extremists in western India in September.

http://www.globalresearch.ca…
by Sherwood Ross
If African-Americans are overrepresented in the armed forces it is likely because of the military’s practice of “strategically targeting low-income youth and students of color,” the ACLU has found.
Result: While African-Americans make up only 16% of the same-age civilian population, in 2006 they represented about 22% of enlisted Army personnel.

http://www.latimes.com…
The ‘malware’ strike, thought to be from inside Russia, hit combat zone computers and the U.S. Central Command overseeing Iraq and Afghanistan. The attack underscores concerns about computer warfare.
By Julian E. Barnes
November 28, 2008
Reporting from Washington — Senior military leaders took the exceptional step of briefing President Bush this week on a severe and widespread [...]

http://www.usatoday.com…
Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — A firm suspended from U.S. government contracts for allegedly bribing Army officers was awarded a new contract in Iraq two days after the suspension was imposed, government investigators found. The Pentagon paid the suspended company more than $1 million under the new contract.

shakespearessister

This just in: Washington Times full of shit! Okay, you probably already knew that. According to a member of the Obama transition team, the president-elect has no plans to delay the repeal of DADT.
washingtonblade
A member of Barack Obama’s transition team is denying media reports that the president-elect has decided to delay efforts to [...]

1. AP Lifts Ban on U.S. Military Handout Photos…
The Associated Press on Friday lifted its suspension on the use of photos provided by the U.S. military after the Pentagon assured the news cooperative that it would avoid distributing altered images to the news media.

2. GM to return two leased jets amid criticism…
General Motors Corp will [...]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk…
via: informationliberation.com
Genetically-modified crops could be grown by the Government in secret locations in an attempt to prevent trials being attacked by saboteurs, it has been reported.
By Jon Swaine
Trials could also be conducted away from the public in the Government’s Porton Down military research site in Salisbury, Wiltshire, it is claimed.