Striking a New Deal for Defense debt

Whether or not the sequester goes into effect — or lasts only a couple of months — the Pentagon’s budget is surely coming down another notch or two. That’s simply the reality of the current economic and strategic circumstance. It’s time for defense leaders to plan accordingly. The surest way to make smaller Pentagon budgets work is to cut end strength and structure — fewer troops, brigades, ships and aircraft. In the near term this might be managed by reducing the number of soldiers and the size of units routinely stationed or rotated abroad.>

By PDA, USA.

Defense Policy Resource.

Nickelodeon "WANTED" For Impersonating Responsible Media Company

Nickelodeon is "WANTED" for impersonating a responsible media company, while it actually markets junk-food and obesity to children. That's the message of a hard-hitting, full-page ad in The Hollywood Reporter by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest and other groups. The ad is a "Wanted" poster featuring mug shots of an unshaven and disheveled SpongeBob SquarePants, whom the ad warns should be approached with caution: he may be armed with nutritionally dangerous foods. The issue hits newsstands tomorrow.

By CSPI, USA,

Health Policy Resource.