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Pentagon Inquiry Clears McChrystal of Wrongdoing

WASHINGTON -- A Pentagon inquiry into a Rolling Stone magazine profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to his dismissal as the top US commander in Afghanistan has cleared him of wrongdoing. The probe's results released Monday also called into question the accuracy of the magazine's report last June, which quoted...

Report: Tillman's Mother Wants McChrystal Off Military Families Commission

The mother of a well-known Army Ranger killed in the war in Afghanistan says retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal was involved in the cover-up of her son's death and should be fired from his new post on a White House commission for military families. Mary Tillman, whose son Pat Tillman was infamously killed by friendly...

First Lady Wants You: To Help Military Families

WASHINGTON -- Drawing in everyone from Best Buy's Geek Squad to the Afghan war commander fired by her husband, Michelle Obama ramped up her campaign to support military families on Tuesday and prodded everybody else in the country to get in on the act. The first lady, joined in the East Room by the president and Vice...

Rolling Stone: General Deployed Psy-Ops Against US Senators

The U.S. Army ordered a "psychological operations" team to manipulate visiting U.S. senators into pushing for more funding and troops for the war in Afghanistan, according to a report in Rolling Stone magazine. Three-star U.S. general Lt. Gen. William Caldwell is accused of deploying propaganda techniques, which the...

Rolling Stone's Army Psy-Ops Story Is Out; Twitter Already Making 'Goat' Jokes

It looks like Rolling Stone has another hit. The magazine dropped an online bombshell late last night, publishing an article claiming the Army ordered "psychological operations" to be used against visiting U.S. lawmakers in Afghanistan. Why? Because the military supposedly wanted to drum up more support for the war effort...

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05/24/12 Why Is General McChrystal Teaching an Off-the-Record... Source: TheAtlantic.com It's fine for a military office to play the role of professor -- but not if that means allowing "special arrangements" that corrupt intellectual freedom.
05/22/12 The U.S. still has no exit strategy. Source: Rolling Stone It is disingenuous to claim, as Barack Obama did at the Nato conference in Chicago, that in two years, when US troops have ended their combat role in Afghanistan , the war "as we understand it" will be over.
05/12/12 It's a case of our government gone wild Source: Times-News - Hendersonville NC
There is abundant and long-standing evidence that vital parts of the national security and military apparatus of the federal government are out of control.
05/11/12 Americans Love a Good Killer Source: Counterpunch The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer.
05/08/12 General Stanley McChrystal to Open 2012 LIMRA Annual... Source: Insurance Broadcasting WINDSOR, Conn., April 17, 2012Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), will open the 2012 LIMRA Annual Conference, which will be held Oct. 2830, 2012, in Chicago, Ill.