Kerry Chosen for U.S. Secretary of State, Hagel Still in Limbo
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Massachusetts Senator John Kerry on Friday to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, calling him “the perfect choice to guide American diplomacy in the...
View ArticleIt’s All About Israel
If former Defence Secretary-designate Sen. Chuck Hagel’s lacklustre performance at his confirmation hearing Thursday heartened neo-conservatives and other hawks opposed to his nomination, those who...
View ArticleDespite Right-Wing Opposition, Hagel Looks Set for Confirmation
Despite an appeal Thursday by 15 right-wing Republican senators for President Barack Obama to withdraw the nomination of Chuck Hagel as his next defence secretary, the former Republican senator from...
View ArticleAfter Unprecedented Fight, Hagel Confirmed as Obama’s Pentagon Chief
Ending a long and controversial battle, the U.S. Senate Tuesday voted 58-41 to confirm former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as President Barack Obama’s new secretary of defence. The confirmation, which...
View ArticleU.S. Proposal Would Cut Military Powers on Rape Cases
The new U.S. secretary of defence, Chuck Hagel, pushed Monday for reforms of the armed forces’ judicial code that would roll back an archaic provision allowing high-ranking commanders to overturn...
View ArticlePentagon Estimates 26,000 Sexual Assaults in U.S. Military Last Year
The U.S. Department of Defence is announcing that reported cases of sexual assault in the U.S. military last year rose again to 3,374, a six percent increase over 2011 and a record high. Yet the figure...
View ArticleNew U.S. Military Anti-Assault Measures Deemed Insufficient
Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel. Credit: DoD photo by Glenn FawcettBy Carey L. BironWASHINGTON, Aug 15 2013 (IPS) The U.S. secretary of defence has unveiled a series of new directives aimed at cracking...
View ArticleHagel Urges Less Money for U.S. Army, More for Special Forces
Secretary of State John F. Kerry, left, confers with Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel during testimony on U.S. military intervention in Syria before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Credit:...
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