Archive for the 'War' Category
Operation Condor
March 8th, 2013Via: Democracy Now: A historic trial underway in Argentina is set to reveal new details about how Latin American countries coordinated with each other in the 1970s and ’80s to eliminate political dissidents. The campaign known as “Operation Condor” involved military dictatorships in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. They worked together to […]
New York: Government Emergency Alert Test Interrupts Rand Paul Filibuster
March 7th, 2013Via: YouTube / CSPAN:
Afghanistan: U.S.-NATO to Stop Reporting Number of Taliban Attacks
March 6th, 2013Via: Wired: One of the major metrics for the decade-long Afghanistan war is seriously flawed. Rather than fix the problem, the U.S.-NATO military command in Kabul has decided that you simply shouldn’t see the data. Late last month, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) conceded that it misreported the 2012 statistics on Taliban attacks. Its […]
Holder: Drone Strikes in U.S. Possible in Response to ‘Extraordinary Circumstance’
March 6th, 2013Via: NBC: The Obama administration has “no intention” of carrying out drone strikes against suspected terrorists in the United States, but could use them in response to “an extraordinary circumstance” such as the 9/11 terror attacks, according to a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder obtained by NBC News. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who received […]
Robot Warriors: Lethal Machines Coming of Age
March 6th, 2013Via: BBC: The era of drone wars is already upon us. The era of robot wars could be fast approaching. Already there are unmanned aircraft demonstrators like the arrow-head shaped X-47B that can pretty-well fly a mission by itself with no involvement of a ground-based “pilot”. There are missile systems like the Patriot that can […]
Russia Fears Its Troops Will Riot if Cigarette Rations End
March 5th, 2013Via: Wired: Russia’s new defense minister wants to extinguish one of the Russian military’s most endemic health problems and martial perks: giving free cigarettes to troops. His challenge is to prevent nicotine-deprived soldiers from violently freaking out. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has reportedly drawn up a rule to end the longstanding practice of providing enlisted […]
Pirate Bay Now Running Out of North Korea [???]
March 4th, 2013Update: Probably Still in Europe This post purports to explain what’s happening. You’ll need more propellers in your beanie than I have in mine if you plan on understanding this: The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake. (P2) — Still Routes Through Europe I’m not really sure what’s going on here. nslookup […]
British Terror Suspects Quietly Stripped of Citizenship… Then Killed by Drones
March 4th, 2013Via: Independent: The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism for The Independent has established that since 2010, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, […]
Pfc. Bradley E. Manning’s Statement for the Providence Inquiry
March 4th, 2013Via: alexaobrien.com: The statement below was read by Private First Class Bradley E. Bradley at the providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. This transcript was taken by journalist Alexa O’Brien at the Article […]
DHS Using Customized Versions of Predator Drones
March 3rd, 2013Via: Cnet: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show. The documents provide more details about the surveillance capabilities of the department’s unmanned […]
