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Pentagon furloughs coming soon in U.S. government budget fight?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday that if automatic government spending cuts kick in on March 1 he may have to shorten the workweek for the "vast majority" of the Defense Department's 800,000 civilian...
Tags: Washington, DC, Career and Workplace, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Employees, Politics
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War's lingering phantoms
Robert Koehler"War's lingering phantoms haunt every society." As two hellish, costly and needless wars struggle toward collapse, this is the time -- now, right this minute, before the next false alarm goes off -- for us to look honestly at the cost and quality of...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sociology, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Values
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Big pay cut contemplated for civilian defense workers
The vast majority of civilian defense employees face a 20 percent pay cut from April through September if looming federal budget reductions aren't averted, a move that will hit Maryland harder than almost every other state, the Pentagon warned Wednesday....
Tags: Career and Workplace, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health and Safety at Work, Politics, Defense
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Jessica Chastain's signature 'Zero Dark Thirty' line follows her [Video]
Daniel Day-Lewis may have been "clothed in immense power" in "Lincoln," but when it comes to memorable movie lines from the past year, it would be hard to top Jessica Chastain's forceful explanation of why she happens to be attending a particular CIA...Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Central Intelligence Agency, Daniel Day-Lewis, Movies, Gold Standard Incorporated
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Rachel Marsden: Pentagon keyboard jockeys can now out-decorate combat heroes
American VoicesPARIS -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced last week that the Pentagon has created a new military award for keyboard cyber-warriors and drone joystick jockeys. The Distinguished Warfare Medal will recognize those whose ability to incinerate a...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of Defense, Heroism, Rachel Marsden, Verizon Communications
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McManus: A team of rivals on Syria
Last August, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-CIA Director David H. Petraeus proposed that the United States change its policy and send weapons and other aid to the rebels fighting the Syrian government. Defense Secretary Leon E....
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Martin Dempsey, Defense, Hillary Clinton
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Gen. John Allen turns down NATO post, set to retire
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — Gen. John Allen, who was top commander in Afghanistan until Feb. 10, announced Tuesday that he is retiring from the Marine Corps due to his wife’s chronic illness, turning down a White House offer to nominate him to be the supreme...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Paula Broadwell, Politics, Police Investigations, Barack Obama
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Avoiding the sequester isn't rocket science
Democrats and Republicans in Washington agree: It would be a disaster if the "sequester," with its more than $1 trillion of cuts to defense and domestic spending, takes effect March 1, as scheduled. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the reductions to...Tags: Social Security, Petroleum Industry, Politics, Brookings Institution, George W. Bush
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Panetta's lifting of women combat ban wins praise
L.A. NOWDefense Secretary Leon E. Panetta's announcement that the Pentagon was ending the ban on women serving in combat met with praise in some quarters. Retired Navy Rear Adm. Veronica “Ronne” Froman said she was overjoyed and pleasantly surprised... -
Goldberg: Soldier girl blues
What if, during the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney had accused President Obama of wanting to let servicewomen serve in combat? After all, Obama had hinted as much in 2008. What would Obama's response have been? My hunch is that he would have accused...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of Defense, Politics, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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Will women have to sign up for the (nonexistent) draft?
When Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that he was rescinding restrictions on women in combat, he dropped this provocative comment: “Our nation was built on the premise of the citizen soldier. In our democracy, I believe it is the...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of Defense, Politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Same-Sex Marriage
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Women in combat? Old news for lady warriors of the big screen
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is lifting the ban on women serving in ground combat units, a landmark decision that will open up some 230,000 military jobs to women. But this is hardly new territory for the ladies of the big screen, where females...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, James Cameron, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (movie), Aliens (movie), Defense
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