Archive for the 'War' Category
Afghanistan: Opium Poppy Cultivation Rises Sharply from 2011-2012
November 22nd, 2012Via: New York Times: Opium poppy cultivation rose substantially in 2012 in an “alarming” trend, despite a major opium eradication effort by Afghan governors, United Nations officials said Tuesday as they released the organization’s 2012 opium survey, which was undertaken with the Afghan Ministry of Counternarcotics. The higher cultivation levels were driven by high prices […]
Navy Fires Two More Commanders
November 22nd, 2012David Petraeus, John R. Allen, Charles M. Gaouette, Jeffrey Sinclair, and now… Via: Stars and Stripes: The Navy on Monday dismissed two commanders amid allegations of misconduct, weeks before they were both scheduled to assume new commands. Capt. Ted Williams was relieved as commander of the amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney, and Cmdr. Ray […]
Mideast Unrest Keeps Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group in the Med
November 22nd, 2012Via: Navy Times: More than 4,000 Marines and sailors deployed in the Mediterranean were ordered to remain in the region amid continued unrest in the Middle East, officials announced Monday. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, embarked on the three-ship Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, was ordered late last week to “stay in theater until otherwise […]
The Mine Kafon
November 20th, 2012Via: Massoud Hassani: Mine Kafon | Callum Cooper from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo. Research Credit: HPLovecraft666
“No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders,” Says Man Who Regularly Bombs Pakistan and Yemen
November 20th, 2012Via: Reason: Speaking in Thailand Sunday, President Obama defended Israel’s counter-assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip by saying, “There’s no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.” More from MSNBC: “Let’s understand what the precipitating event here that’s causing the current crisis and that was […]
Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots
November 19th, 2012Via: Human Rights Watch: Governments should pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. These future weapons, sometimes called “killer robots,” would be able to choose and fire on targets without human intervention. The 50-page report, “Losing Humanity: […]
ISRAEL: CABINET AUTHORIZED MOBILIZATION OF UP TO 75,000 RESERVISTS
November 17th, 2012Here we go again. Via: Reuters: Israel’s cabinet authorized the mobilization of up to 75,000 reservists late on Friday, preparing the ground for a possible Gaza invasion after Palestinians fired a rocket toward Jerusalem for the first time in decades. Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial centre, also came under rocket attack for the second straight day, […]
Broadwell and Kelley Visited White House
November 17th, 2012Via: AP: The two women at the center of the David Petraeus scandal — the biographer with whom he had an extramarital affair and the socialite who received worrisome emails that led investigators to uncover the illicit relationship — visited the White House on separate and apparently unrelated occasions. Neither woman met with President Barack […]
Poverty: 50 Million Americans Struggling to Survive
November 15th, 2012The United States is projected to spend an estimated US$323 billion for development and procurement on the F-35 program, making it the most expensive defense program ever. The total lifecycle cost for the entire American fleet is estimated to be US$1.51 trillion over its 50-year life, or $618 million per plane. —Wikipedia, Lockheed Martin F-35 […]
Hamas Military Chief Killed in Gaza Air Strike
November 14th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Hamas has said an Israeli air strike in Gaza killed Ahmed Jabari, the head of its military wing, in an attack on a vehicle on Wednesday.
