Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Top Ten Reasons to Quit Facebook
May 4th, 2010And another reason, not mentioned in the list below: Facebook Steps Up Lobbying, Deepens Ties with Intelligence Agencies, FTC. Via: Gizmodo: After some reflection, I’ve decided to delete my account on Facebook. I’d like to encourage you to do the same. This is part altruism and part selfish. The altruism part is that I think […]
DynCorp Running “Counter-Narcotics” Missions Along Pakistan/Afghanistan Border
May 3rd, 2010Counter-Narcotics. *wink* Via: Wired: The airspace along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border is pretty crowded these days: Along with U.S., Afghan and Pakistani military missions, the CIA is running its own covert drone ops. Less well known, but perhaps equally controversial, is the State Department’s counter-narcotics air force, staffed by mercenaries. A recently released State Department Inspector […]
Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
May 1st, 2010Via: Fowles Books: The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile […]
Halliburton Acquired Boots & Coots On 9 April 2010
May 1st, 2010And then… ‘Last Resort’ Safety Device Failed in Fatal Drilling Incident: Boots & Coots Inc. of Houston and Amarillo, Texas-based GSM Enterprises Inc., two of the companies that extinguished hundreds of oil wells in Kuwait set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in 1990, have been brought in to help cap the leaks. Halliburton’s timing was […]
Sophisticated Counterfeiting Operation Run Out of Apartment Facing Federal Reserve Building in Los Angeles
April 30th, 2010Update: Brian Alexik Walks Free Yep, you read that right. Via: Los Angeles Downtown News: Brian Alexik, the former fugitive who was arrested last year for drugs, weapons and counterfeiting charges, was sentenced today to five years probation as part of a plea deal and released from custody. Alexik, who was arrested on June 3, […]
Guatemala: Unearthing a Massacre
April 29th, 2010Via: Global Post: Archeologists this month meticulously unearthed the brittle, bare bones of what are thought to be at least 162 men, women and children killed by the Guatemalan army in 1982. Stoic old folks watched intently for signs of brothers and sisters; kids asked about the heaps of femurs and broken craniums. There were […]
U.S. Subpoenas New York Times Reporter Over Book on CIA
April 29th, 2010Via: New York Times: The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. The author, James Risen, who is a reporter for The New York Times, received […]
Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for ‘War Crimes,’ According to Law Professor
April 29th, 2010Read the following book and let me know how many Americans have faced international tribunals for those atrocities: Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Via: Wired: The pilots waging America’s undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for “war crimes,” a prominent law […]
Derek Michael Stansberry: Former Air Force Intelligence Specialist Claims to Have Bomb and Fake Passport Aboard Trans-Atlantic Flight
April 28th, 2010Update: Text of Note COA may mean Course Of Action. Via: Los Angeles Times: Air Force reservist Derek Michael Stansberry allegedly claimed in a confused note to have explosives aboard a Delta flight from Paris to Atlanta. His possible motives are unclear. An Air Force reservist working for a defense contractor in Africa was charged […]
AIG Will Be Paying for Legal Defense of Goldman Sachs’ Top Executives; They Have Insurance Underwritten by AIG
April 25th, 2010Unless the AIG imbroglio is untangled, the rest of this is nonsense. —Elliot Spitzer: “There are no coincidences in this world. None.” Who bailed out AIG? The U.S. Taxpayer. So, who’s actually going to pick up the tabs to both prosecute and defend Blankfein and the gang? The U.S. Taxpayer. I don’t understand the significance […]
