Military
Drone Alert
Greg Thrasher – Our country spends billions of dollars on the purchase of weapons and hi tech security devices under the premise of national defense and the protection and safety of the home land. Retired generals leave our armed forces to peddle their services to defense contractors in the weapons industry. America not only arms [...]
1st black to graduate from Naval Academy dies
The Naval Academy says Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African-American to graduate from the Academy, has died. He was 85. The Capital of Annapolis reported that Brown died Tuesday. An Academy spokesman did not know where Brown died. Brown was appointed to the Academy in 1945. He ran varsity track and cross country, [...]
Officials: Al-Qaida bomber was CIA informant
The CIA had al-Qaida fooled from the beginning. Last month, U.S. intelligence learned that al-Qaida’s Yemen branch hoped to launch a spectacular attack using a new, nearly undetectable bomb aboard an airliner bound for America, officials say. But the man the terrorists were counting on to carry out the attack was actually working for the [...]
Bin Laden said to have wanted Obama assassinated
A former Obama administration official says al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden wanted to see President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus assassinated. But Michael Leiter tells NBC’s “Today” show he didn’t think that necessarily was bin Laden’s highest priority, suggesting the terrorist leader dreamed of another large-scale, 9/11-type attack on the United States. Asked [...]
Coast Guard Academy to honor its first black graduate
Since becoming the first African American to graduate from the Coast Guard Academy in 1966, Merle Smith has seen more diversity among the corps of cadets. But he says the academy still has work to do to better reflect the face of America. The service academy, which is honoring Smith with a pioneer award Sunday, [...]
