Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
U.S. Government Storing Information on Americans in Vast Surveillance Database
December 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation’s history, collects, stores […]
Pfizer Targeted Nigerian Attorney General to Undermine Suit Over Fatal Drug Tests
December 17th, 2010Via: Democracy Now: Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer hired investigators to find evidence of corruption against the Nigerian attorney general to pressure him to drop a $6 billion lawsuit over fraudulent drug tests on Nigerian children. Researchers did not obtain signed consent forms, and medical personnel said Pfizer did not […]
CIA Gave Torturers $5 Million Legal Shield
December 17th, 2010Via: AP: The CIA agreed to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for two contractors who were the architects of the agency’s interrogation program and personally conducted dozens of waterboarding sessions on terror detainees, former U.S. officials said. The secret agreement means taxpayers are paying to defend the men in a federal investigation […]
Hope and Change: Obama Regime Hiring Mercenaries ‘At a Rate That Would Make Bush Blush’
December 16th, 2010Via: Daily Beast: Without much notice or debate, the Obama administration has greatly expanded the outsourcing of key parts of the U.S.-led counterinsurgency wars in the Middle East and Africa, and as a result, for its secretive air war and special operations missions around the world, the U.S. has become increasingly reliant on a new […]
$52 Billion of American Aid and Still Afghans are Dying of Starvation
December 13th, 2010Failure? Someone wound up with a whole lot of opium and heroin, and a bunch of corporations made a killing from a gusher of absurd and lucrative contracts. That sounds more like just another day at the office than failure to me—considering the criminal organizations involved and their blood soaked gravy train. —Top U.S. Commander […]
U.S. Tells Uganda: Consult Us Before Using Intelligence to Commit Atrocities
December 9th, 2010Via: Guardian: The US told Uganda to let it know when the army was going to commit war crimes using American intelligence – but did not try to dissuade it from doing so, the US embassy cables suggest. America was supporting the Ugandan government in its fight against rebel movement the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), […]
Welcome to Shanghai-on-Shannon: Chinese Plans to Create a City in Co Westmeath That Will Act as a Trading Hub for Europe
December 5th, 2010This is just what Ireland needs! The World’s Largest Shopping Mall — Is Empty China’s Empty City Via: Irish Times: IT HAS BEEN the talk of Athlone for almost two years. What began as vague whisperings of Chinese investors scouting the midlands town for a major project soon developed into umpteen rumours, each one grander […]
DynCorp and Afghan “Dancing Boys”
December 3rd, 2010Well, well, well. Related Search: DynCorp Human Trafficking Via: Guardian: A scandal involving foreign contractors employed to train Afghan policemen who took drugs and paid for young “dancing boys” to entertain them in northern Afghanistan caused such panic that the interior minister begged the US embassy to try and “quash” the story, according to one […]
Russia as Mafia State and Pot Calls Kettle Black
December 2nd, 2010I consider the following depiction of Russia to be middle-road, uncontroversial and obvious. What struck me, though, is how similar it sounds to the U.S. Just change some of the proper names to American ones and instead of mafia, use corporations. Sound familiar? Also, this isn’t just the State Department’s assessment. This topic represents an […]
Russia Frees Israeli Mercenary
November 20th, 2010Via: BBC: Russia has released Israeli mercenary Yair Klein, who was sought by Colombia for his involvement in the training of paramilitary squads, reports say. Klein, a former Israeli army soldier, is on his way to Israel, Interfax news agency reports. In 2001, a Colombian court convicted him in absentia of training right-wing guerrilla groups. […]
