Archive for the 'War' Category
Rutgers Professor Concerned About Weather Weapons
February 15th, 2015Via: Independent: A senior American climate scientist has spoken of the fear he experienced when US intelligence services apparently asked him about the possibility of weaponising the weather as a major report on geo-engineering is to be published this week. Professor Alan Robock stated that three years ago, two men claiming to be from the […]
Obama Sends Letter to Congress Seeking Authorization of ISIS Fight
February 11th, 2015Back around 2003, I had a T-shirt made with this logo on the front: It never goes out of style. Via: New York Times: President Obama on Wednesday formally asked Congress to authorize a three-year military campaign against the terrorist group the Islamic State that would avoid a large-scale invasion and occupation but in addition […]
U.S. to Establish New Cybersecurity Agency
February 10th, 2015Via: Reuters: The U.S. government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of risks, a senior Obama administration official said on Tuesday. The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) will be an “intelligence center that will ‘connect the dots’ between various cyber threats to the nation […]
Introducing Spot
February 10th, 2015Via: Boston Dynamics (Google):
U.S. Considers Providing Arms to Ukraine
February 2nd, 2015Not good. Via: Guardian: President Barack Obama’s administration is considering providing Ukrainian forces with defensive weapons and equipment in the face of a rebel offensive that has shattered a five-month truce, according to the New York Times. The newspaper quoted US officials as saying secretary of state John Kerry and US joint chiefs chairman Martin […]
Intervention in Civil Wars Far More Likely in Oil-Rich Nations
January 29th, 2015Via: Independent: Conspiracy theorists have long insisted that modern wars revolve around oil. Now research suggests hydrocarbons play an even bigger role in conflicts than they had suspected. According to academics from the Universities of Portsmouth, Warwick and Essex, foreign intervention in a civil war is 100 times more likely when the afflicted country has […]
1,000 Paratroopers from 82nd Airborne Headed to Iraq
January 28th, 2015Via: Fay Observer: The 82nd Airborne, and more specifically its 3rd Brigade Combat Team, are no strangers to Iraq. Since 2003, parts of the brigade have deployed in support of U.S. efforts there on at least three occasions. Now, more than three years after the U.S. military presence in Iraq was thought over, about a […]
How the CIA Made Google
January 27th, 2015This is a really good one. Via: Medium: Google styles itself as a friendly, funky, user-friendly tech firm that rose to prominence through a combination of skill, luck, and genuine innovation. This is true. But it is a mere fragment of the story. In reality, Google is a smokescreen behind which lurks the US military-industrial […]
Doomsday Clock: It Is Three Minutes to Midnight
January 23rd, 2015Via: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: Unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity, and world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of political leadership endanger […]
Yemen: Coup Underway
January 20th, 2015Via: Globe and Mail: A Yemeni army commander says Shiite Houthi rebels have seized the presidential palace in the capital, Sanaa, a move he described as a “coup.” Col. Saleh al-Jamalani, the commander of the Presidential Protection Force that guards embattled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, says the rebels swept into the presidential palace on […]
