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2 Nov 2023, 5:42 pm
 Pix Credit hereOn November 1, 2023, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) issued a press release regarding the extent to which large enterprises have been complying with U.S. sanctions regimes touching on human rights. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 4:24 am by Rebecca Tushnet
  Comment: This has to be the case if the New York Times is not to be a commercial speaker when it publishes its most important stories: Publishing the Pentagon Papers and portions of the Wikileaks documents, or Judith Miller’s Iraq reporting, undoubtedly was extremely important to the NYT’s brand, for good or ill. [read post]
30 Jul 2019, 9:09 am by David Priess
During the first Gulf War, he served as the Pentagon’s J2, or chief of intelligence, working closely with Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 8:54 am by Hadley Baker
According to the Pentagon, Soleimani was actively plotting more attacks on Americans. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 8:35 am by Adam Mount, Pranay Vaddi
Over the past four years, many Americans have been surprised to learn that a U.S. president can order a nuclear strike at a moment’s notice without the approval of any other official. [read post]
28 Jul 2017, 9:06 am by Michel Paradis
One reporter claimed to overhear someone in the Pentagon muse, “We’re taking orders via Twitter now? [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 11:31 am by Elina Saxena, Quinta Jurecic
As the Kremlin ramps up its involvement in Syria, world leaders are taking a careful look at Russia’s intentions and strategy in the country. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 10:59 am by Benjamin Wittes
” Perhaps most importantly, there’s been a nearly complete purge of senior leadership at the Pentagon, and the replacement of removed officials with Trump loyalists. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 12:21 pm by Jacques Singer-Emery, Patrick McDonnell
Jackson Hall, on behalf of the government, argued that the prosecution seeks three specific things: the establishment of a new closed caption television (CCTV) remote site at the Pentagon and the designation of Fort Meade as an additional CCTV site. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 8:30 am by Chris Mirasola
Through Fitzgerald’s testimony, the prosecution established the basic factual record of the 9/11 attacks, including the hijackings of American Airlines Flight 11 (which hit Tower One of the World Trade Center), United Airlines Flight 175 (which hit Tower Two of the World Trade Center), American Airlines Flight 77 (which hit the Pentagon), and United Airlines Flight 93 (which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania). [read post]
9 Aug 2015, 4:58 pm
  Thus consider the larger object of the efforts to legitimate torture by reshaping societal conceptions of the self and of the consequences of inclusion and exclusion.The Central Intelligence Agency’s health professionals repeatedly criticized the agency’s post-Sept. 11 interrogation program, but their protests were rebuffed by prominent outside psychologists who lent credibility to the program, according to a new report.The 542-page report, which examines the involvement of the… [read post]
5 Sep 2021, 7:01 am by Sara Bjerg Moller
The difficulties ISAF’s lead countries experienced sourcing personnel to sustain the Kabul force, coupled with the Pentagon’s waning attention toward Afghanistan as it prepared to invade Iraq in spring 2003, led Washington and its NATO allies to conclude that the time had come for the alliance to take charge of ISAF. [read post]
23 May 2016, 1:14 pm by Alex R. McQuade
The battle for Fallujah has begun. [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 1:32 pm by Brian Liu, Raquel Leslie
Beijing’s onslaught against Chinese Big Tech continued on Oct. 8 with an announcement that the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has imposed a fine of RMB 3.4 billion ($534 million) on Chinese food delivery giant Meituan for monopolistic behavior. [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 2:07 pm by Raquel Leslie, Brian Liu
China’s tech sector, which has in the past decade been one of the strongest job-creating sectors in the world’s second-largest economy, is now laden with stories about frozen headcounts and mass layoffs as tech giants grapple with regulatory crackdowns and a cooling economy. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 3:41 pm by Sean Quirk
Washington and Beijing are using their militaries to signal that neither is letting down its guard on Taiwan and the South China Sea during the coronavirus pandemic. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 5:47 am by Jon Gelman
As the Zadroga Act slowly journeys to expiration, Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) declared that, “We Have a Moral Obligation to Continue to Provide the Critically Needed Care and Compensation That Our 9/11 Heroes, Survivors and Their Families Deserve. [read post]