President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed outrage to aides because there have been no violent mass street demonstrations against his statements and policies. He believes he needs violent demonstrations against him in order to declare a national state of emergency that would allow him to do anything he wants.   read more

Upon the retirement of Melvin W. Russell, who served as acting director of the Defense Media Activity (DMA) from October 2009 until April 30, 2012, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Bryan G. Whitman was appointed a...   read more

Despite testimony from the Pentagon’s top leaders that energy diversification is a key component of American military and security strategy, the Senate Armed Services Committee  on May 24 voted 13-12 to prohibit the U.S. military from buying biofu...   read more

Four years after crashing the global economy as a result of their irresponsible gambling with other people’s money, U.S. banks posted record profits for the first quarter of 2012, according to a report released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor...   read more

Two thousand, six hundred sixty-two days: That is how long the United States held innocent man Lakhdar Boumediene at the prison camp for “terrorists” at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, from January 20, 2002, to May 14, 2009. Although by early 2004 one of hi...   read more

The new ambassador to the United States from Spain is a career diplomat who has previously served in the U.S. and whose career has been tied to the political fortunes of Spain’s right-of-center political party, the People’s Party (PP), which won S...   read more

The key U.S. Asian ally of South Korea has named a new ambassador to the United States who has served before in the U.S. Born March 29, 1948, Choi Young-jin earned a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations at Yonsei University in Seo...   read more

Seven years after it was hired to provide food to troops in Afghanistan, a Swiss company has been accused of overcharging the Department of Defense about three-quarters of a billion dollars.   Supreme Foodservice AG of Switzerland has been paid ...   read more

It is one of the most dangerous jobs in America, with a death rate 10 times that of construction work: tower workers. Nearly 100 of these climbers have died on the job since 2003, more than half of them working on cell phone towers and the rest on...   read more

Prescription drug abuse and overdoses are overwhelming state officials in Tennessee.   Nearly 18 million prescriptions for controlled substances such as OxyContin and hydrocodone (the primary ingredient of Vicodin) were dispensed in the state du...   read more

A career diplomat who has specialized in Asian affairs, including U.S.-Taiwan relations, will be the next director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), and as such the de facto ambassador to Taipei. Christopher J. Marut, who served previousl...   read more

Chaiyong Satjipanon became Thailand’s ambassador to the United States on April 18, 2012.   Born on September 14, 1953, Chaiyong was educated in Thailand and the U.S. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree (with honors) in political science and ...   read more

From the amount of money spent each year in the United States on law enforcement, one might assume crime continues to be a growing problem.   But that’s not the case at all.   Crime rates today are at their lowest levels in 30 years and the ra...   read more

John Brennan, counterterrorism advisor to President Barack Obama, has reportedly taken on the lead role in selecting which terrorists will be targeted for drone attacks or raids by the U.S. military or the CIA.   Brennan and his small team at th...   read more

The fallout from Facebook’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) now includes three lawsuits filed against the social media giant and the banks that helped it go public.   At least three shareholder lawsuits allege Facebook and its creator Mark Zuckerb...   read more

Four years ago, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) was admonished by Congress’ watchdog agency to improve its performance, which presumably meant doing more work rather than less.   DCAA apparently thought the opposite.   In fiscal year ...   read more

A proposed bike path in Los Angeles has provoked a lawsuit against federal and state agencies by a group of homeowners complaining the project will violate environmental laws.   Attorney S. Zachary Samuels sued on behalf of himself and a dozen n...   read more