News, December 24, 2009

Gates Proposes $2 Billion in Funds to Aid Unstable Countries US Military: No Change to Iraq Pregnancy Policy Navy's Attempted Suicide Rate Nearly 3 Percent Guantánamo Closure Delayed Another Year US Attack on Yemen Signals Escalation Defense Bill Pork Earmarks Total $4 Billion 'War on Terror'

Dumbest Anti-Terror Tech, Ever? As Attacks Increase, US Struggles to Recruit Computer Security Experts Should the US Destroy Jihadist Websites? Feds Address Concerns About Safety of Illinois Prison Guantanamo 'Hell on Earth,' Says Somali Detainee Police Feared Terrorist Attack After 2004 Michael Jackson Arrest Lithuanian Report Inconclusive on How Secret CIA Prisons Were Used Lithuanian Parliament Condemns CIA Prisons FBI Leaker Should Have Raised Flags

The War at Home

Blast! Los Alamos Researchers Accidentially Demolish Building With a Cannon At Fort Hood, Reaching Out to Soldiers at Risk Navy: Investigation Drove Sailor to Suicide

News, December 23, 2009

Guantánamo Closure Delayed Another Year

The War at Home

Military Mentors Discreetly Hired, Fired Peace Activists to Set Up Encampment in Washington Pa. Soldier's Mom Files Second Electrocution Suit

'War on Terror'

Former Guantánamo Prisoner Returns to Work at Al-Jazeera India Rejects Talks With Pakistan Before It Acts Against Mumbai Attackers Book: 'Bin Laden' Came Within Minutes of Killing Bill Clinton

Billions in Earmarks Inflate Defense Bill's Cost

That comes on the heels of Congress passing a $447 billion spending bill Dec. 13 that included 5,224 earmarks totaling $3.9 billion, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a watchdog group. The earmarks include $54 million for a flood-control project that will raise two trestles used by the Napa Valley Wine Train.

• Gitmo Head Count Below 200

• US Ups Funding for Israel's Missile Defense Programs 

The War at Home

	Obama to Name Bush Adviser as Cybersecurity Coordinator
	Chaplains Called on to Deliver Tragic News

Viewpoints:

Making More Terrorists in Yemen  by Glenn Greenwald GOP Hawks Love Obama's War Talk  by Jack Kenny

News, December 21, 2009

Did Headley Target Nuclear Plant?

US Military in Europe

US Forces to Train Poles on Air and Missile Defense US Traumatic Brain Injury Clinics in Germany to Open in Early 2010

The War at Home

Obama Plan Could Limit Records Hidden From Public Texas Antiwar Activists Losing Patience With Obama Plight of Contractor Raped in Iraq Spurs Push in Congress Inside Washington: An Anti-Whistleblower Culture Muslim Leaders in US Grapple With How to Protect Their Youth

News, December 20, 2009

	Senate Dems Break Fillibuster, OK $636B Pentagon Spending
	12 Guantánamo Detainees Freed; Captive Count at 8-Year Low
	IAEA Applying a Nuclear Double-Standard

Frontline

	Israeli Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified US Docs
	Did US Keep Mum on Mumbai Attack?
	US-Russia Arms Deal Unlikely Before February: Report
	Police Expect Mumbai-Style Terror Attack on London
	2/3 of UK Afghan War Vets Suffer Hearing Damage
	Afghan Killing Bares a Karzai Family Feud
	Modellers Claim Wars Are Predictable

Americans Still Dying

	Georgia Soldier's Death in Iraq Being Investigated
	Detroit (MI) Marine Dies on Fourth Deployment in Iraq
	Air Force Reservist, Cincinnati Police Officer, Slain in Afghanistan (KY)
	Panama City (FL) Soldier With Ties to Ohio Dies of Wounds Suffered in Afghanistan