While politicians, insiders and experts may be divided over how much the government should spend on the nation’s defense, there’s a surprising consensus among the public about what should be done: They want to cut spending far more deeply than either the Obama administration or the Republicans.

The survey guidelines, questions and detailed results to the polling of 665 random Americans, done by 3 nonprofit companies, questioned in a new and innovative format on their positions in regards to what to do with our military budget: raise it, keep it the same, or cut it? Survey says...

Jamal Abdi and Trita Parsi write that "just as with the lead-up to the Iraq War, the pathway to war with Iran will be paved with false assertions, self-fulfilling saber rattling and political weakness that might seem insignificant now, but will in retrospect turn out to be disastrous."

Fareed Zakaria provides a historical perspective on wars past with the saber rattling that is currently going on with respect to Iran's nuclear program.

Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is pushing to pass the VOW to Hire Heroes Act in the Senate

Susan Koch of WAMM uncovers the true purpose of the burgeoning penal system...the exploitation of inmate labor, mostly ethnic minorities, for the profit of private corporations including weapons manufacturers.

Pakistani Journalist, Ahmed Rashid, writes about the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, pointing out that the wars cannot be won purely by military force and that questions about who hates whom will become only more difficult to resolve until the warfare ends.

Despite being asked by conference leaders to appear as state governor and not a presidential candidate, Gov. Rick Perry endorsed an aggressive foreign policy doctrine

The Air Force has suspended an ethics briefing for new missile launch officers after concerns were raised about the briefing's heavy focus on religion.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's reputation as a fighter for transparency and destroyer of secrets ought to be thoroughly demolished by today's spectacle of the New York Times literally forcing him to give up the Guantanamo Bay files he'd been hoarding for months.

A trove of more than 700 classified military documents provides new and detailed accounts of the men who have done time at the Guantánamo Bayprison in Cuba, and offers new insight into the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there.

On May 13, 2010, about eighty soldiers, stationed at Fort Eustis while attending a training course, were punished for opting out of attending one of these Christian concerts. The headliner at this concert was a Christian rock band called BarlowGirl, a band that describes itself as taking "an aggressive, almost warrior-like stance when it comes to spreading the gospel and serving God."

Some of the detainees in Gitmo have no evidence against them

Republican Jim DeMint appearing on Fox News used the alleged Christmas Bomber issue to attack President Obama and the TSA because the agency's screeners might *gasp* unionize. DeMint deflected attention away from the fact that he voted against TSA funding earlier this year and has put a hold on Obama's nominee to head the department - hampering the agency's ability to put leadership in place.

President Obama intends to clamp down on practices that have resulted in billions of dollars in cost overruns and delays in recent years, citing a Government Accountability Office study that found 95 major Defense Department weapons contracts were over budget by a total of $295 billion.