Attorney Calls for Formal Investigation of DoD Contract

In a post almost seven months ago, I reported on a claim that the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a hand-held portable lie detector system made by Lafayette Instrument Company, was never tested for countermeasures before it was deployed to troops in...

Civilian Workers Strike Continues at Vance AFB

Rick Boardman can say all he wants to a reporter for the Enid (Okla.) News & Eagle — as he does in this video — in an attempt to justify the decision to strike that garnered support of 94 percent of the union members for whom he serves as president.  What he...

I Married A Spy - Chapter 2

"They'll give me $10,000.00 to re-up!" "I don't think so Popeye." That was my response when Steve suggested that he could stay in the Navy and keep drinking for the rest of his life. Just the fact that the Department of Defense had even offered Spongebob a check to stay in...

I Married a Spy - Chapter One

I met Batman in 1967 after I dropped out of college. It was the Fall Semester after the Summer of Love in San Francisco. The college poetry teacher suggested that everybody drop out and go experience the renaissance. I drove from Los Angeles to my aunt's home in Sacramento....

Pentagon Project Aims to be RoboCop Reality

The Pentagon's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is seeking contractors to make robots that can hunt down noncooperative humans. Scott Thill reports on these developments for Alternet, gets comments from the ACLU and various University professors."Are Pentagon...