by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 25, 2015 | National Security
Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the United States Pacific Command, arrived in the Philippines on Tuesday for a three-day visit that highlights broad changes to the Southeast Asian nation’s military strategy. The Philippines has lately welcomed the militaries...
by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 24, 2015 | Environment, National Security
WASHINGTON – Soldiers are being deployed to help fight wildfires in the West for the first time since 2006, the Pentagon announced Thursday. “The Army doesn’t have firefighters,” said spokesman Lt. Col. Joe Buccino. “But the Army has soldiers that can do things in...
by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 17, 2015 | National Security, Politics
On August 14, almost 50 Afghan-Americans gathered outside the Pakistani embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest what they say is Pakistan’s ongoing support of terrorist organizations operating in Afghanistan. The protesters called for the United States Congress...
by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 17, 2015 | Health
WASHINGTON – A new vaccine, 30 years in the making, could finally signal an advance in the struggle against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease which kills more than half a million people each year, health experts say. In July, the European Medicines Agency, similar...
by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 13, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA – The U.S. may have opened an embassy in Havana, Cuba, but 500 miles away at the Guantanamo Bay naval base you wouldn’t know that anything had changed. Guantanamo Bay, with its small-town feel, is a major naval base as well as home...
