http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/category/war war news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2013 2013-06-19T07:23:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061813_johncscottshow/jc-scott-filmmaker-facing-funding-deadline-mariachi-documentary/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061813_johncscottshow/jc-scott-filmmaker-facing-funding-deadline-mariachi-documentary/ 00:00:00Z John C. Scott Show Bankruptcy attorney Jesse R. Callahan, Middle East expert Prof. Stephen Zunes, documentary filmmaker Daniel Buckley, and Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry head Glenn Hamer 2013-06-19T00:00:07+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061713_patriot_act/remember-when-patriot-act-debate-was-all-library-records/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061713_patriot_act/remember-when-patriot-act-debate-was-all-library-records/ 22:48:00Z Justin Elliott In the months following the October 2001, passage of the Patriot Act, there was a heated public debate about the very provision of the law that we now know the government is using to vacuum up phone records of American citizens on a massive scale. Instead, the debate centered on something else: library records. 2013-06-17T22:48:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061413_dm_solar/air-forces-largest-solar-project-planned-davis-monthan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061413_dm_solar/air-forces-largest-solar-project-planned-davis-monthan/ 23:01:00Z Ryan Revock Construction of the largest solar energy array in the U.S. Air Force will begin at the end of June on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The project is expected to save the base $500,000 per year in energy costs. 2013-06-16T23:01:16+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061413_syria/us-aid-syrian-rebels-concluding-regime-used-chemical-weapons/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061413_syria/us-aid-syrian-rebels-concluding-regime-used-chemical-weapons/ 16:32:00Z Lizzy Tomei U.S. and European intelligence analysts believe Bashar al-Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons against its own people, according to a memo circulated within the U.S. government on Thursday. The White House confirmed Thursday evening that it will be militarily aiding the Syrian rebels in response to convincing evidence of chemical weapons use by the regime. 2013-06-14T16:32:47+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061113_vogt_veterans/ted-vogt-appointed-az-veterans-director/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061113_vogt_veterans/ted-vogt-appointed-az-veterans-director/ 00:34:00Z Dylan Smith Former Tucson-area legislator Ted Vogt has been appointed director of the Arizona Department of Veterans Services, Gov. Jan Brewer announced Tuesday. Vogt, a former Air Force intelligence office, lost a bid for reelection to the state House in November. As Veterans Services director, he replaces Joey Strickland, who resigned after hiring former GOP legislator Terri Proud as an assistant. 2013-06-12T00:34:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061113_buckmaster/buckmaster-whos-watching-intelligence-gatherers/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061113_buckmaster/buckmaster-whos-watching-intelligence-gatherers/ 20:24:00Z Buckmaster Show Terry Bracy, Buckmaster contributor on Washington and governmental affairs, kicked off the show with an update on intelligence gathering. The, financial planner Shelly Fishman gave the Money Maker report, followed by Pam Crim of Cox Busines, and Margaret Regan, arts editor of the Tucson Weekly, with a look at the local arts scene. 2013-06-11T20:24:57+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061113_govt_surveillance/nsa-black-hole-5-things-we-still-dont-know-agencys-snooping/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061113_govt_surveillance/nsa-black-hole-5-things-we-still-dont-know-agencys-snooping/ 16:57:00Z Justin Elliott Last week saw revelations that the FBI and the National Security Agency have been collecting Americans’ phone records en masse and that the agencies have access to data from nine tech companies. But secrecy around the programs has meant even basic questions are still unanswered. Here’s what we still don’t know. 2013-06-11T16:57:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061013_johncscottshow/jc-scott-az-house-panel-kills-medicaid-expansion-now/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061013_johncscottshow/jc-scott-az-house-panel-kills-medicaid-expansion-now/ 00:35:00Z John C. Scott Show Democratic state Sen. Steve Farley, Ken Strobeck of the Arizona League of Cities and Towns, Downtown Tucson Partnership CEO Michael Kieth, Republican strategist Sam Stone, and developer Richard Studwell. 2013-06-11T00:35:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061013_mccain_syria_op/sen-mccains-mistaken-rationale-over-syria/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061013_mccain_syria_op/sen-mccains-mistaken-rationale-over-syria/ 22:12:00Z Derrick Goodrich Our five-term senator, John McCain, has been a key advocate for an enhanced U.S. role in Syria, but the senator’s case does not hold water. Not only is he mistaken in his arguments for intervention, but, more fundamentally, he is mistaken as to what justifies a military intervention. 2013-06-10T22:12:46+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061013_govt_surveillance/the-best-stories-governments-growing-surveillance/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061013_govt_surveillance/the-best-stories-governments-growing-surveillance/ 19:11:00Z Christie Thompson Since 9/11, the government has been collecting enormous amounts of information on citizens. But most of the data grabbing is done in secret. What do we know about what the government knows? Here’s our reading guide to the government’s growing surveillance. 2013-06-10T19:11:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061013_pentagon_waste/pentagon-may-wasting-1b-year-erroneous-payments-contractors/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061013_pentagon_waste/pentagon-may-wasting-1b-year-erroneous-payments-contractors/ 07:25:00Z Richard H.P. Sia The Pentagon has been paying hundreds of millions of tax dollars a year to people and companies that don’t deserve it, but its financial management shortcomings are so severe that it’s made little progress in halting the errors or even measuring their magnitude, according to a report released by a Senate committee.. 2013-06-10T07:25:32+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/060913_verizon_records_judge/secret-court-judge-attended-expenses-paid-terrorism-seminar/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/060913_verizon_records_judge/secret-court-judge-attended-expenses-paid-terrorism-seminar/ 06:01:00Z Chris Young U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who signed an order requiring Verizon to give the National Security Agency telephone records for tens of millions of American customers, attended an expense-paid judicial seminar sponsored by a libertarian think tank that featured lectures from a vocal proponent of executive branch powers. 2013-06-10T06:01:42+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060913_syria_mccain/as-mccain-urges-intervention-syrians-az-keep-wary-eye/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060913_syria_mccain/as-mccain-urges-intervention-syrians-az-keep-wary-eye/ 16:58:00Z Jonathan Reid U.S. Sen. John McCain told a Washington audience Thursday that the United States must establish a safe zone in Syria and arm the opposition with “heavy weapons” before the region sinks “deeper into extremism and conflict.” But Reda Taleb thinks that would be a mistake. Taleb is one of several Syrians in Arizona who are keeping an eye on the conflict in their homeland, and on McCain’s actions. 2013-06-09T16:58:41+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/060713_enema_by_the_state/enema-by-state/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/060713_enema_by_the_state/enema-by-state/ 00:53:00Z Roberto De Vido The National Security Agency and the FBI are conducting surveillance of Americans’ telephone and internet communications activities. And some people are surprised. 2013-06-08T00:53:54+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060713_dday_vets/az-honor-flight-vets-reflect-d-day/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060713_dday_vets/az-honor-flight-vets-reflect-d-day/ 08:09:00Z Emilie Eaton Arizona resident Tony Alvarado stood in the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., Thursday, laughing and joking with other Tucson-area veterans until he was asked about D-Day. On the 69th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, Alvarado still tears up when he talks about his brother Edward, who was killed in one of the first waves of Americans to come ashore in the invasion. 2013-06-07T08:09:20+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/060613_d-day_facts/d-day-five-facts-know/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/060613_d-day_facts/d-day-five-facts-know/ 16:26:00Z Stacey Leasca June 6, 1944, marked the first day of the the Normandy landings during WWII. While this day will forever be marked in history, there are a few facts that go unnoticed. 2013-06-06T16:26:48+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060413_johncscottshow/jc-scott-medicaid-logjam-broken-vote-expected-this-week/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060413_johncscottshow/jc-scott-medicaid-logjam-broken-vote-expected-this-week/ 00:27:00Z John C. Scott Show Interviews with Pima County Democratic Party Chairman Don Jorgensen, Arizona Capitol Times Editor Jim Small, Middle East expert Prof. Stephen Zunes, Southern Arizona News Examiner Editor Emil Franzi, and state Rep. Ethan Orr, R-LD9 2013-06-05T00:27:47+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060313_buckmaster/buckmaster-will-us-pulled-into-syrias-civil-war/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060313_buckmaster/buckmaster-will-us-pulled-into-syrias-civil-war/ 22:46:00Z Buckmaster Show Commentators John Munger and Paul Eckerstrom on the Monday Political Face-off, then Buckmaster contributor on military and foreign affairs Gen. John A. Wickham, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff. 2013-06-03T22:46:28+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/053013_johnny_peacemaker/johnny-peacemaker/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/053013_johnny_peacemaker/johnny-peacemaker/ 21:54:00Z Roberto De Vido Senator John McCain visited Syria earlier this week to meet with rebel leaders. Why? He ain’t sayin’. 2013-05-30T21:54:08+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052913_eu_syria/eu-lifts-arms-embargo-syrian-rebels-extends-sanctions-assads-regime/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052913_eu_syria/eu-lifts-arms-embargo-syrian-rebels-extends-sanctions-assads-regime/ 01:25:00Z Paul Ames The European Union decided to let an arms embargo against the Syrian rebels expire, while the White House reportedly asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for a no-fly zone in Syria. 2013-05-30T01:25:09+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052813_mccain_syria/mccain-sneaks-into-syria-meets-with-rebels/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052813_mccain_syria/mccain-sneaks-into-syria-meets-with-rebels/ 16:59:00Z Talia Ralph John McCain, Republican senator and former presidential candidate, secretly visited Syria on Monday, where he met with rebel leaders. 2013-05-28T16:59:27+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052713_az_vets/az-vets-face-long-delays-claims-requests/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052713_az_vets/az-vets-face-long-delays-claims-requests/ 16:26:00Z Emilie Eaton A veteran’s benefits claim filed today with the Phoenix office of the Department of Veterans Affairs might not be closed until well after Memorial Day. Of 2014. In fact, it would be well past Labor Day and almost Columbus Day of next year before the average claim was completed in the Phoenix office, one of the slowest in the nation for closing such claims. 2013-05-27T16:26:03+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/111011_morenci_nine/decades-after-vietnam-memory-morenci-nine-preserved/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/111011_morenci_nine/decades-after-vietnam-memory-morenci-nine-preserved/ 15:53:00Z Whitney Phillips Folks here didn’t make much of the fact that nine members of Morenci High School’s class of 1966 enlisted together in the Marine Corps. But after six of those young men were were killed in Vietnam, national media dubbed them the “Morenci 9″ and this eastern Arizona copper-mining community was left to preserve the memory of their sacrifice. 2013-05-27T15:53:37+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/fallen/our-fallen-tucsonans-killed-iraq-and-afghanistan-wars/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/fallen/our-fallen-tucsonans-killed-iraq-and-afghanistan-wars/#When: 15:42:000 Dylan Smith Updated: After a decade of war, dozens from Tucson and Southern Arizona have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2013-04-30T15:42:26-07:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052213_bostom_bomb_fbi/fla-man-with-alleged-ties-tsarnaev-killed-during-fbi-questioning/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052213_bostom_bomb_fbi/fla-man-with-alleged-ties-tsarnaev-killed-during-fbi-questioning/ 15:56:00Z Kaitlin Funaro A man shot and killed during FBI questioning in Orlando, Fla. allegedly had ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, sources said Wednesday. 2013-05-22T15:56:19+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052113_israel_syria/israeli-defense-chief-warns-syria-cross-border-fire-golan-heights/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052113_israel_syria/israeli-defense-chief-warns-syria-cross-border-fire-golan-heights/ 00:57:00Z Noga Tarnopolsky A new front seems to be developing in the ever-changing Syrian civil war — a front of cross-border bluster. 2013-05-22T00:57:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052013_doj_ap_probe/ap-chief-unconstitutional-doj-probe-makes-sources-shy/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052013_doj_ap_probe/ap-chief-unconstitutional-doj-probe-makes-sources-shy/ 20:43:00Z Daniel DeFraia The Justice Department’s seizure of journalists’ phone records has made sources reluctant to talk, damaging the wire agency’s ability to report the news, said Associated Press chief Gary Pruitt. 2013-05-20T20:43:04+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052013_korea_missle/north-korea-fires-6th-short-range-missile-3-days/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052013_korea_missle/north-korea-fires-6th-short-range-missile-3-days/ 17:27:00Z Daniel DeFraia North Korea fired more short-range missiles away from South Korea and into the East Sea on Monday, its third successive day of missile tests. 2013-05-20T17:27:33+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051913_syrian_opposition/the-structure-and-organization-syrian-opposition/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051913_syrian_opposition/the-structure-and-organization-syrian-opposition/ 01:26:00Z Ken Sofer As President Barack Obama and his national security advisors continue to weigh the costs and benefits of providing greater financial and materiel support for elements of the Syrian opposition—potentially including lethal aid—it is important to understand the structure of the Syrian opposition, which remains plagued by many divisions. 2013-05-20T01:26:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/051713_johncscottshow/jc-scott-az-senate-budget-includes-medicaid-expansion/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/051713_johncscottshow/jc-scott-az-senate-budget-includes-medicaid-expansion/ 02:52:00Z John C. Scott Show Interviews with Rep. Bruce Wheeler D-LD28, Sen. Linda Lopez D-LD2, Sen. Steve Farley D-LD9, Ben Buehler-Garcia Ward 3 Tucson City Council Candidate, Reporter Ben Giles Arizona Capitol Times, Jesse Lugo Civic Leader, Middle East Expert Prof. Stephen Zunes 2013-05-18T02:52:48+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051613_think_again/think-again-worse-than-watergate/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051613_think_again/think-again-worse-than-watergate/ 01:33:00Z Eric Alterman In a new poll from Public Policy Polling, 74 percent of Republicans polled said they think the actions of the Obama administration during the crisis in Benghazi were worse than Watergate. The results, however, might be taken with a grain of salt as half of that 74 percent appear to have no idea whatsoever where—or even what—Benghazi is. 2013-05-17T01:33:06+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/051613_military_rape/the-most-important-muckreads-rape-military/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/051613_military_rape/the-most-important-muckreads-rape-military/ 01:13:00Z Christie Thompson The Pentagon announced this week that a sergeant working in the military’s sexual assault prevention office had been charged with — you guessed it — sexual assault. This news came just a week after the officer in charge of the Air Force’s rape prevention program was arrested for sexual battery. 2013-05-17T01:13:31+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/051613_soldier_debt/on-victory-drive-soldiers-defeated-by-debt/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/051613_soldier_debt/on-victory-drive-soldiers-defeated-by-debt/ 00:45:00Z Paul Kiel Seven years after Congress banned payday-loan companies from charging exorbitant interest rates to service members, many of the nation’s military bases are surrounded by storefront lenders who charge high annual percentage rates, sometimes exceeding 400 percent. 2013-05-17T00:45:09+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/051613_benghazi_revisited/benghazi-attack-revisited/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/051613_benghazi_revisited/benghazi-attack-revisited/ 00:30:00Z Eugene Kiely President Obama says the May 8 House hearing on Benghazi and subsequent reporting about it produced no new information. That’s largely the case, but the president misrepresented some facts at his May 13 press conference in dismissing the House investigation as a “political circus.” 2013-05-17T00:30:30+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/051313_buckmaster/buckmaster-should-azs-top-school-official-educator/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/051313_buckmaster/buckmaster-should-azs-top-school-official-educator/ 20:27:00Z Buckmaster Show The Monday Political Face-Off featured John Munger and Vince Rabago. Also, we talked with ASU Education Prof. David Garcia, who is considering a run for state superintendent of public instruction. Plus, a fun summer is planned at Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo and we get a preview from Kristen Metzger, the zoo’s education supervisor. 2013-05-13T20:27:35+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/051313_9-11-visas/factcheck-9-11-hijackers-and-student-visas/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/051313_9-11-visas/factcheck-9-11-hijackers-and-student-visas/ 19:45:00Z Robert Farley Lawmakers on both sides of the immigration debate have falsely claimed that “some” or “all” of the 9/11 hijackers were in the U.S. on student visas. Only one of the 19 hijackers came to the U.S. on a student visa. The rest arrived here on tourist or business visas. 2013-05-13T19:45:23+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/050913_drone_degrees/uav-degree-colleges-offering-courses-drone-design/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/050913_drone_degrees/uav-degree-colleges-offering-courses-drone-design/ 01:01:00Z Mary Shinn The drone minor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott aims to prepare students to build and fly unmanned aerial vehicles – UAVs, or drones – for a commercial market that doesn’t yet exist. 2013-05-10T01:01:13+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050713_mccain_gitmo/mccains-gitmo-exaggeration/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050713_mccain_gitmo/mccains-gitmo-exaggeration/ 16:51:00Z Brooks Jackson Sen. John McCain exaggerated when he claimed that about 25 percent of prisoners released from Guantanamo have returned to terrorist activities in “leadership positions.” 2013-05-07T16:51:20+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/050613_buckmaster/buckmaster-us-military-involvement-coming-syria/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/050613_buckmaster/buckmaster-us-military-involvement-coming-syria/ 20:36:00Z Buckmaster Show The Monday Political Face-Off featured commentators Bruce Ash and Paul Eckerstrom. Then, our monthly conversation with Gen. John A. Wickham, Jr., former U.S. Army chief of staff, on whether the U.S. will intervene in the Syrian conflict. 2013-05-06T20:36:33+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050613_syria_chemical_un/un-no-conclusive-proof-chemical-weapons-syria/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050613_syria_chemical_un/un-no-conclusive-proof-chemical-weapons-syria/ 18:05:00Z Priyanka Boghani A UN commission investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria said it has “not reached conclusive findings” on the issue, contradicting an earlier claim by UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte. The White House weighed in on Monday afternoon, with spokesman Jay Carney saying there was evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, but not conclusive proof. 2013-05-06T18:05:47+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050313_afghan_security/govt-auditor-challenges-white-house-account-afghan-security/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050313_afghan_security/govt-auditor-challenges-white-house-account-afghan-security/ 00:53:00Z Richard H.P. Sia Since the United States first sent troops to Afghanistan in 2001, a signature goal of the war has been to increase the capability of Afghan national security forces. But estimates of the size of the Afghan force trained to take over this lead security role have suddenly grown fuzzy and possibly unreliable. 2013-05-04T00:53:47+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050313_press_freedom_day/parents-detained-journalist-james-foley-mark-world-press-freedom-day/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050313_press_freedom_day/parents-detained-journalist-james-foley-mark-world-press-freedom-day/ 18:17:00Z Charles M. Sennott John and Diane Foley know ground truth. They know it through the passion of their son, James, a talented journalist who went missing while reporting in Syria on Thanksgiving Day and has not been heard from since. 2013-05-03T18:17:06+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050313_foley_syria/american-journalist-likely-held-by-syrian-government/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/050313_foley_syria/american-journalist-likely-held-by-syrian-government/ 17:15:00Z Peter Gelling After a five-month investigation inside Syria and the wider Middle East, GlobalPost and the family of missing American journalist James Foley now believe the Syrian government is holding him in a detention center near Damascus. 2013-05-03T17:15:01+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/050113_military_licenses/law-will-apply-military-experience-professional-licenses/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/050113_military_licenses/law-will-apply-military-experience-professional-licenses/ 16:12:00Z Matthew Longdon Rep. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, thought about leaving the Marine Corps in the ’80s to drive trucks until he learned his military license wouldn’t apply toward a commercial driver’s license. 2013-05-01T16:12:39+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/043013_guantanamo/guantanamo/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/043013_guantanamo/guantanamo/ 23:18:00Z Roberto De Vido President Obama again vowed to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. 2013-04-30T23:18:25+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/043013_mccaskill_obit/d-m-pays-tribute-pararescueman-killed-afghanistan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/043013_mccaskill_obit/d-m-pays-tribute-pararescueman-killed-afghanistan/ 22:35:00Z MSgt. Luke Johnson Over the weekend, the 943rd Rescue Group memorialized the life of a fallen pararescueman who was killed in Afghanistan on April 6 while working as a civilian security contractor. The memorial Saturday included family and friends of Chief Master Sgt. Nicholas L. McCaskill, 306th Rescue Squadron PJ. 2013-04-30T22:35:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/043013_buckmaster/buckmaster-update-arizonas-new-wwii-monument/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/043013_buckmaster/buckmaster-update-arizonas-new-wwii-monument/ 21:34:00Z Buckmaster Show An interview with Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, plus certified financial planner Shelly Fishman, Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President Lea Marquez Peterson previewed the May 7 Head Over Heels: Southern Arizona Women’s Conference, and Margaret Regan, arts editor of the Tucson Weekly, had the bi-monthly Buckmaster Arts Report. 2013-04-30T21:34:07+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/043013_syria_chem_weapons/syria-horrific-chemical-weapons-attack-probably-wasnt-chemicals/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/043013_syria_chem_weapons/syria-horrific-chemical-weapons-attack-probably-wasnt-chemicals/ 20:02:00Z Tracey Shelton A recent strike in Aleppo led Syrians to think chemical warfare had broken out. But a closer analysis reveals something different. 2013-04-30T20:02:46+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042913_handover_afghanistan/us-troops-afghanistan-packing-up-and-moving-out/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042913_handover_afghanistan/us-troops-afghanistan-packing-up-and-moving-out/ 18:40:00Z Ben Brody Preparation to hand over U.S. bases to Afghan forces is a huge undertaking for US troops. 2013-04-29T18:40:31+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042613_johncscottshow/jc-scott-pima-county-wants-keep-road-repair-gas-tax/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042613_johncscottshow/jc-scott-pima-county-wants-keep-road-repair-gas-tax/ 15:19:00Z John C. Scott Show Interviews with the PAG/RTA’s Jim DeGrood; state Rep. Bruce Wheeler (D-LD10); TucsonSentinel.com columnist Jimmy Zuma; Jesse Lugo, the former president of the Service Station Dealers of Arizona; Middle East expert Prof. Stephen Zunes; and attorney Don Loose. 2013-04-29T15:19:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042613_dla_billing/pentagon-claims-757-million-overbilling-by-contractor-afghanistan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042613_dla_billing/pentagon-claims-757-million-overbilling-by-contractor-afghanistan/ 22:14:00Z Richard H.P. Sia The Pentagon allowed a private firm providing food and water to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to overbill taxpayers $757 million and awarded the company no-bid contract extensions worth more than $4 billion over three years, according to the Pentagon’s chief internal watchdog and congressional investigators. 2013-04-26T22:14:49+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042613_homeless_vets/shelter-homeless-women-veterans-opens-phoenix/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042613_homeless_vets/shelter-homeless-women-veterans-opens-phoenix/ 20:36:00Z Christina Silvestri After serving in the U.S. Air Force for seven years, Bonnie Diaz waited tables and operated a forklift to make ends meet before she ended up homeless. “Coming out of the military is like coming out of prison and being released into the world,” Diaz, 46, said. “The world has moved on and it’s no longer a recognizable environment.” 2013-04-26T20:36:46+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042613_buckmaster/buckmaster-will-lawmakers-agree-budget-before-july-1-deadline/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042613_buckmaster/buckmaster-will-lawmakers-agree-budget-before-july-1-deadline/ 20:23:00Z Buckmaster Show The Friday Focus interview with House Majority Leader David Gowan of Sierra Vista. Then, it’s the Reporters’ Roundtable with Sarah Garrecht Gassen, editorial writer and columnist at the The Arizona Daily Star, and Linda Valdez, editorial writer and columnist at the The Arizona Republic. Plus, Weekend Watch with Matt Russell. 2013-04-26T20:23:25+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042413_graham_claims/lindsey-grahams-enemy-combatant-exaggeration/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042413_graham_claims/lindsey-grahams-enemy-combatant-exaggeration/ 21:37:00Z Eugene Kiely Sen. Lindsey Graham exaggerated when he claimed “all the information” that led to the capture of Osama bin Laden came from “enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay.” Detainees provided “key information” about bin Laden’s “courier network,” but “other sources” provided “other intelligence” that ultimately led to his capture and death, intelligence officials have said. 2013-04-24T21:37:41+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042313_syria_chem_weapons/syria-uses-chemical-weapons-against-rebels-israel-says/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042313_syria_chem_weapons/syria-uses-chemical-weapons-against-rebels-israel-says/ 00:35:00Z Noga Tarnopolsky For the past month, in increasing tones even if not on-the-record, Israeli military intelligence officers have claimed there is evidence that Bashar al-Assad is using chemical weapons, specifically Sarin, a nerve gas, against rebel forces. 2013-04-24T00:35:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042313_guantanamo_torture/six-claims-detainee-torture-skewered/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042313_guantanamo_torture/six-claims-detainee-torture-skewered/ 00:19:00Z Christie Thompson A nonpartisan think tank, the Constitution Project, released a scathing, 577-page report on the U.S.’s treatment, and torture, of detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The investigation began in 2009, after Obama opposed creating a “truth commission.” 2013-04-24T00:19:05+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042313_boston_fallout/the-boston-bombings-north-caucasus-us-russian-relations/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042313_boston_fallout/the-boston-bombings-north-caucasus-us-russian-relations/ 00:06:00Z Corey Welt In the days following the dramatic manhunt in Boston for surviving terrorism suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, questions have multiplied regarding the significance of the Tsarnaev brothers’ Chechen roots. Thus far, it isn’t clear whether this connection played any role in their fatal attack on the city last week, but it will likely continue to be investigated in the weeks to come. 2013-04-24T00:06:21+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042213_bombingcharges/boston-suspect-charged-with-using-wmd/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042213_bombingcharges/boston-suspect-charged-with-using-wmd/ 18:33:00Z Dylan Smith Federal authorities Monday charged Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston bombing and killing of an MIT police officer, with using a “weapon of mass destruction.”  (with complete document) 2013-04-22T18:33:10+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042213_grijalva_military_op/grijalva-military-price-tag-continues-grow-needlessly-wise-cuts-must-made/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042213_grijalva_military_op/grijalva-military-price-tag-continues-grow-needlessly-wise-cuts-must-made/ 16:31:00Z Raúl M. Grijalva We always hear about how polarized the country is, but on most of the big issues there’s a clear public mandate to go in a certain direction. Congress just needs to listen. The budget is a good example. A Jan. 30 Reason-Rupe poll asked respondents what the country spends too much money on, and the most popular response — at 21 percent, the winner by several points — was “defense/military/wars.” 2013-04-22T16:31:24+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041913_bombing_suspects/bombing-suspects-echo-home-grown-terrorists-madrid-london/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041913_bombing_suspects/bombing-suspects-echo-home-grown-terrorists-madrid-london/ 20:57:00Z Sebastian Rotella As an eighth-grader in a Cambridge public school, suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was quiet, friendly, spoke good English and seemed at home in his adopted country. While hundreds of police officers pursued the 19-year-old during a nationally-televised rampage across Boston Friday, a former classmate recounted memories of the refugee who, according to counterterror officials, became a U.S. citizen on an ironic date: Sept. 11, 2012. 2013-04-19T20:57:49+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/041813_mccain_foriegn_policy_op/mccain-gop-cant-turn-away-from-internationalism/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/041813_mccain_foriegn_policy_op/mccain-gop-cant-turn-away-from-internationalism/ 17:08:00Z John McCain Our last election was not primarily, or even secondarily, about national security. But to the extent that a referendum was held on that issue, polls show that most Americans gave their vote to the Democrats. This was a sea change, and there are many reasons for it, but a major one is clearly the legacy of Iraq. 2013-04-18T17:08:00+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041713_obamas_numbers/obamas-numbers-quarterly-update/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041713_obamas_numbers/obamas-numbers-quarterly-update/ 01:19:00Z Brooks Jackson There are insights that emerge from the first in a series of regular quarterly updates of key statistical indicators of the Obama presidency. 2013-04-18T01:19:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041713_north_korea_talks/north-korea-opens-window-into-possibility-talks-with-us/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041713_north_korea_talks/north-korea-opens-window-into-possibility-talks-with-us/ 00:57:00Z Geoffrey Cain North Korea said it was open to dialog with the US but that it would not return to the “humiliating negotiating table” until it has boosted its nuclear arsenal enough to fend off an American attack, the state news agency reported. 2013-04-18T00:57:30+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041513_buckmaster/buckmaster-dr-andrew-weil-living-and-eating-well/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041513_buckmaster/buckmaster-dr-andrew-weil-living-and-eating-well/ 22:17:00Z Buckmaster Show The Monday Political Face-Off, featured John Munger and Jeff Rogers. Then, we chat with Dr. Andrew Weil, director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. 2013-04-15T22:17:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041013_israel_syria/israel-may-operating-syria/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041013_israel_syria/israel-may-operating-syria/ 17:15:00Z Dylan Smith Israeli military personnel are operating in non-combat capacity in an area across Israel’s border with Syria, GlobalPost has learned. While the Israeli forces may be operating in a non-military capacity, it would be the first time they have been known to set foot in Syria since the 1970s. 2013-04-10T17:15:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040913_az_vets_trauma/more-az-veterans-report-dealing-with-military-sexual-trauma/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040913_az_vets_trauma/more-az-veterans-report-dealing-with-military-sexual-trauma/ 01:53:00Z Christina Silvestri Luisa Valdez said she was 18 and new to the Army when knocks awoke her and four male service members pushed her back into her barracks room and onto the bed. Each man raped her, she said. 2013-04-10T01:53:17+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040913_new_nukes/obama-proposes-shifting-funds-from-nonproliferation-new-nuclear-weapons/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040913_new_nukes/obama-proposes-shifting-funds-from-nonproliferation-new-nuclear-weapons/ 01:29:00Z R. Jeffrey Smith The Obama administration will propose a deep cut in funding for nuclear nonproliferation programs at the Energy Department largely so it can boost the department’s spending to modernize its stockpile of nuclear weapons, according to officials familiar with the proposed 2014 federal budget to be unveiled Wednesday. 2013-04-10T01:29:41+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040813_buckmaster/buckmaster-former-army-chief-weighs-korean-crisis/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040813_buckmaster/buckmaster-former-army-chief-weighs-korean-crisis/ 20:52:00Z Buckmaster Show The Monday Political Face-Off featured commentators Bruce Ash and Paul Eckerstrom. Also, General John A. Wickham, Jr., former U.S. Army chief of staff and commander of all U.S. and UN forces in Korea, discussed the dangerous situation on the Korean peninsula. 2013-04-08T20:52:24+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/040813_neruda/chile-plans-exhume-famed-poet-pablo-neruda/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/040813_neruda/chile-plans-exhume-famed-poet-pablo-neruda/ 16:57:00Z Faine Greenwood Authorities hope to determine if the literary figure died of prostate cancer, or was killed by the Pinochet regime. 2013-04-08T16:57:27+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040513_drone_age/hearts-minds-and-dollars-condolence-payments-drone-strike-age/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040513_drone_age/hearts-minds-and-dollars-condolence-payments-drone-strike-age/ 00:34:00Z Cora Currier In February, during his confirmation process, CIA director John Brennan offered an unusually straightforward explanation:  “Where possible, we also work with local governments to gather facts, and, if appropriate, provide condolence payments to families of those killed.” 2013-04-06T00:34:43+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040513_korean_war_talk/all-quiet-northern-front/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040513_korean_war_talk/all-quiet-northern-front/ 00:28:00Z Geoffrey Cain Over the years, plenty of Koreans have explained how they feel when the North drums up the militant rhetoric. It’s just a part of life, they usually say, and not as big of a deal here as it is in the American press. 2013-04-06T00:28:35+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040513_north_korea/north-korea-there-reason-hope/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040513_north_korea/north-korea-there-reason-hope/ 00:20:00Z Bradley K. Martin Externally, it’s clear enough that Kim Jong Un intends this season’s extreme saber-rattling performance to establish North Korea as a recognized nuclear weapons and long-range missiles power, not to be messed with. Internally, it’s equally clear he wants his subjects to see him not as a 30-year-old kid who’s inheriting power from his dead daddy but as a clever and fearless general able to save them from the machinations of ferocious enemies. 2013-04-06T00:20:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040413_defense_spending/hagel-warns-pentagon-officials-that-change-coming/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040413_defense_spending/hagel-warns-pentagon-officials-that-change-coming/ 17:02:00Z R. Jeffrey Smith If anyone thought Chuck Hagel wants to be a caretaker defense secretary, he worked hard to disabuse them of the idea in an April 3 speech to a roomful of generals and other senior officers at Washington’s National Defense University, an elite school chartered by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 2013-04-04T17:02:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040313_proud_periods/proud-fired-after-comments-women-combat-menstrual-cycles/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040313_proud_periods/proud-fired-after-comments-women-combat-menstrual-cycles/ 20:17:00Z Bethany Barnes The director of the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services resigned and an assistant he hired, former Tucson lawmaker Terri Proud, was fired Wednesday after Arizona-Sonora News Service reported that Proud said menstrual cycles might be too problematic for women to be in combat.  2013-04-03T20:17:52+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040213_iraq_think_again/acknowledging-mistakes-iraq-would-prevent-repeat/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040213_iraq_think_again/acknowledging-mistakes-iraq-would-prevent-repeat/ 16:20:00Z Eric Alterman For better or worse, the Vietnam War proved itself to be a learning experience for Americans. In many respects, President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq was an even greater catastrophe — one that is even less morally and intellectually defensible. And yet, as a nation, we appear to have learned virtually nothing this time around. 2013-04-02T16:20:55+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040113_korea_costs/the-high-cost-rattling-north-koreas-cage/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040113_korea_costs/the-high-cost-rattling-north-koreas-cage/ 17:47:00Z Douglas Birch The U.S. delivered a very expensive message last week in dispatching a couple of its $3 billion, B-2 stealth bombers from Missouri to drop dummy bombs during training exercises in South Korea. By some estimates the planes cost $135,000 per hour to fly — nearly double that of any other military aircraft. And their hefty price tag in today’s dollars makes them too expensive to put at serious risk in all but the direst circumstances. 2013-04-01T17:47:37+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/033113_road_to_emmaus/the-road-emmaus-dwindling-christian-communities-middle-east/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/033113_road_to_emmaus/the-road-emmaus-dwindling-christian-communities-middle-east/ 23:35:00Z Charles M. Sennott On the ancient cobblestones of Jerusalem’s Old City today Christians retraced what tradition holds as the path of Jesus in his final hours of life. 2013-03-31T23:35:29+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/033013_navy_seal/seal-team-6-member-dies-pinal-training-jump/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/033013_navy_seal/seal-team-6-member-dies-pinal-training-jump/ 19:23:00Z Dylan Smith A member of the U.S. Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 died Thursday when he and another member of the special forces unit collided in midair during training northwest of Tucson. Saturday, the Navy identified the deceased as Brett D. Shadle, 31, a special warfare operator chief. The injured SEAL remains in the hospital in stable condition. 2013-03-30T19:23:15+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032913_wwii_memorial/sandblasting-painting-final-steps-toward-creating-state-world-war-ii-memorial/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032913_wwii_memorial/sandblasting-painting-final-steps-toward-creating-state-world-war-ii-memorial/ 19:35:00Z Christina Silvestri In a west Phoenix industrial area, Master Sgt. Kelly Dugan and a team Arizona Air National Guard volunteers scrape rust from gun barrels that once graced the USS Arizona and USS Missouri. 2013-03-29T19:35:01+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/032613_gullible_think_again/are-journalists-any-less-gullible-than-they-were-10-years-ago/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/032613_gullible_think_again/are-journalists-any-less-gullible-than-they-were-10-years-ago/ 15:42:00Z Eric Alterman Instead of being a government watchdog and fact checking all the assertions politicians feed them, journalists have become prone to the lapdog tendencies of repeating what those in power say without questioning whether it’s true. 2013-03-26T15:42:56+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032413_bachmann_benghazi/bachmann-bungles-benghazi-food-stamps/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032413_bachmann_benghazi/bachmann-bungles-benghazi-food-stamps/ 18:10:00Z Robert Farley Rep. Michele Bachmann used misleading and at times wildly inaccurate portrayals of two key domestic and foreign policy issues — food stamps and the response to an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya — to paint President Obama as someone who doesn’t “care.” 2013-03-24T18:10:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032113_oyama_obit/remembering-hank-oyama/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032113_oyama_obit/remembering-hank-oyama/ 17:20:00Z Tom Prezelski The last time I saw Hank Oyama was about two years ago. I ran into him at an event Downtown and he asked me to walk him back to his car. It quickly became obvious that he really needed no particular help, but that he just wanted some company while he wandered around the heart of the city he loved to share some stories, and he was certainly someone who had more than a few stories to tell. 2013-03-21T17:20:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031913_great_days_in_naval_history/great-days-naval-history/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031913_great_days_in_naval_history/great-days-naval-history/ 12:09:00Z Roberto De Vido Despite Dennis Rodman’s best efforts, the situation in North Korea is still unstable ... 2013-03-19T12:09:24+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031813_pope_dirty_war/two-discordant-dirty-war-narratives-pope-francis/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031813_pope_dirty_war/two-discordant-dirty-war-narratives-pope-francis/ 17:22:00Z Jason Berry The news from Argentina on what Pope Francis did, or didn’t do during the years of the dirty war has shadowed the early days of his papacy, prompting the Vatican to denounce reporting to that effect. Could it be, on this one, that the Vatican may be right? 2013-03-18T17:22:39+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031513_vatican_pope/vatican-denies-pope-francis-stayed-silent-dirty-war/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031513_vatican_pope/vatican-denies-pope-francis-stayed-silent-dirty-war/ 04:56:00Z Sarah Wolfe The Vatican is hitting back at critics who have charged that Pope Francis didn’t do enough during Argentina’s Dirty War. A spokesman called the accusations “defamatory” and told reporters today that they “must be clearly and firmly denied.” 2013-03-16T04:56:47+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031513_korea_missiles/north-korea-launches-missile-east-sea/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031513_korea_missiles/north-korea-launches-missile-east-sea/ 15:10:00Z Geoffrey Cain North Korea fired off short-range missiles into the East Sea on Friday amid heightened tension following its February nuclear test, a military source in Seoul said. 2013-03-15T15:10:19+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031513_kim_assassination/north-korea-kim-jong-un-targeted-assassination-attempt/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031513_kim_assassination/north-korea-kim-jong-un-targeted-assassination-attempt/ 15:06:00Z Freya Petersen North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was recently the target of an assassination attempt, South Korean intelligence has said. 2013-03-15T15:06:00+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031413_pope_op/first-latin-american-pope-speaks-softly-carries-allegedly-dark-past/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031413_pope_op/first-latin-american-pope-speaks-softly-carries-allegedly-dark-past/ 23:41:00Z John Otis The 266th pope, and the first ever from Latin America, has one lung, rides the subway, reads Dostoevsky and has been described as both a moral compass and a sellout to Argentina’s former Dirty War leaders. 2013-03-14T23:41:06+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031213_bolton_super_pac/john-bolton-forms-super-pac/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031213_bolton_super_pac/john-bolton-forms-super-pac/ 01:17:00Z David Levinthal John Bolton, a former U.N. ambassador under President George W. Bush and a leading conservative voice on foreign policy issues, will lead a pair of newly formed political action committees, including a super PAC. 2013-03-13T01:17:14+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031213_staying_afghanistan/afghanistan-should-we-stay-or-should-we-go/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031213_staying_afghanistan/afghanistan-should-we-stay-or-should-we-go/ 17:24:00Z Jean MacKenzie Analysis: As Karzai insinuates Washington-Taliban collusion, fault lines deepen in an already troubled relationship. 2013-03-12T17:24:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/031113_buckmaster/buckmaster-gop-leaders-want-block-medicaid-expansion/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/031113_buckmaster/buckmaster-gop-leaders-want-block-medicaid-expansion/ 21:36:00Z Buckmaster Show The Monday Political Face-Off featured Carolyn Cox and Paul Eckerstrom. Also, the latest on the serious situation in North Korea from Gen. John Wickham, retired U.S. Army chief of staff. 2013-03-11T21:36:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031113_korea/north-korea-cuts-hotline-with-south-threatens-nuclear-strike-as-war-games-begin/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/031113_korea/north-korea-cuts-hotline-with-south-threatens-nuclear-strike-as-war-games-begin/ 17:42:00Z Freya Petersen North Korea severed its hotline with Seoul and confirmed its decision to scrap the armistice that ended the Korean War on Monday, as South Korean and U.S. troops launched a joint military exercise. 2013-03-11T17:42:35+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031113_drones_op/in-long-run-drones-may-counter-productive/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031113_drones_op/in-long-run-drones-may-counter-productive/ 17:31:00Z Tom Fenton For a president who is reluctant to play the role of world policeman, drones look like an easy option, a simple way to show a war-weary public that he is “doing something” to defend America. They may also be the cheap option. But like the sanctions program that is supposed to force Iran to give up its presumed nuclear weapons program, some experts have grave doubts that the drone program can achieve its objective of deterring terrorist acts. 2013-03-11T17:31:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/031113_mccain_tsa/mccain-wants-hearing-allowing-knives-planes/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/031113_mccain_tsa/mccain-wants-hearing-allowing-knives-planes/ 17:28:00Z Sarah Wolfe Sen. John McCain is calling for a congressional hearing into the Transportation Safety Administration’s decision to allow small knives on planes. 2013-03-11T17:28:27+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/030713_ignorance_thinkagain/the-terrible-power-purposeful-ignorance/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/030713_ignorance_thinkagain/the-terrible-power-purposeful-ignorance/ 21:51:00Z Eric Alterman It is true that knowledge is power. But getting American politicians to act upon that knowledge—or even convincing top pundits and reporters to pay attention to it—well, that’s another matter entirely. Just ask the millions of families of those killed, wounded, or displaced by the pointless and counterproductive American invasion of Iraq on its 10th birthday. 2013-03-07T21:51:13+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/030513_korea_truce/north-korea-threatens-cancel-korean-war-truce/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/030513_korea_truce/north-korea-threatens-cancel-korean-war-truce/ 17:01:00Z Jessica Phelan North Korea has vowed to disregard the 1953 truce that ended the Korean War, in response to South Korea’s joint military drills with the U.S. 2013-03-05T17:01:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/030413_syria_uprising/in-syria-one-mans-terrorist-another-mans-freedom-fighter/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/030413_syria_uprising/in-syria-one-mans-terrorist-another-mans-freedom-fighter/ 01:19:00Z Peter Gelling In Syria, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. It’s a vital distinction that, as evidenced by US reluctance to get involved, could influence the outcome of the conflict. 2013-03-05T01:19:29+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/030413_sinaloa_cartel/how-sinaloa-cartel-won-mexicos-drug-war/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/030413_sinaloa_cartel/how-sinaloa-cartel-won-mexicos-drug-war/ 01:09:00Z Jan-Albert Hootsen For well over a century, local farmers have harvested marijuana and opium in the rugged mountains surrounding Badiraguato. Since the 1980s, the Sinaloa cartel has acted as their Wal-Mart, transporting the mind-bending cargo north with quasi-corporate efficiency, and distributing it to a narcotics-craving United States market. 2013-03-05T01:09:56+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/030413_drone_targets/us-marking-unidentified-men-pakistan-yemen-as-drone-targets/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/030413_drone_targets/us-marking-unidentified-men-pakistan-yemen-as-drone-targets/ 18:36:00Z Cora Currier What little we know about the evidence needed to justify a drone strike on unidentified people. While President Obama and administration officials have framed the drone program as targeting particular members of al-Qaeda, attacks against unknown militants reportedly may account for the majority of strikes. 2013-03-04T18:36:53+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/030413_drone_strikes/the-drone-war-doctrine-we-still-know-nothing-about/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/030413_drone_strikes/the-drone-war-doctrine-we-still-know-nothing-about/ 18:29:00Z Cora Currier The focus on the targeting of American citizens overlooks many other strikes in which the U.S. doesn’t know who it’s killing. In these attacks, known as “signature strikes,” drone operators fire on people whose identities they do not know based on evidence of suspicious behavior or other “signatures.” 2013-03-04T18:29:00+00:00