Archive for the 'War' Category
Army Mortuary Unit Deploys to Middle East
July 20th, 2012Via: AP / Army Times: More than 40 soldiers from Fort Lee are deploying to Kuwait and Afghanistan. Officials at the Army base near Petersburg say the soldiers from the 111th Quartermaster Company left Wednesday for an at least six-month deployment. The soldiers are part of one of the Army’s only two active duty mortuary […]
IARPA Contracting for Quiet Surveillance Drone
July 19th, 2012Via: Aviation Week: Now small firm D-Star Engineering has received what appears to be the first contract (for $4.8 million) awarded under the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (IARPA) Great Horned Owl (GHO) program to develop a new class of quiet small unmanned aircraft. … Sound is the number one signature that gives away the […]
U.S. Military Purchasing Combat Equipment for Domestic Contingency Planning
July 19th, 2012Via: Public Intelligence: For the last two years, the President’s Budget Submissions for the Department of Defense have included purchases of a significant amount of combat equipment, including armored vehicles, helicopters and even artillery, under an obscure section of the FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the purposes of “homeland defense missions, domestic emergency […]
‘It Was Just Beautiful’
July 19th, 2012Via: YouTube / Atom Central: On July 19, 1957, five men stood at Ground Zero of an atomic test that was being conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This was the test of a 2KT (kiloton) MB-1 nuclear air-to-air rocket launched from an F-89 Scorpion interceptor. The nuclear missile detonated 10,000 ft above their heads. […]
Syria: Assad Brother-in-Law, Syria Defense Minister Killed in Damascus Blast
July 18th, 2012Via: Wall Street Journal: Three top military and security leaders in the Syrian regime including President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law and the defense minister were killed in a bombing in Damascus on Wednesday in the biggest blow to the country’s rulers since the start of the uprising. State television said Mr. Shawkat, Defense Minister Maj. Gen. […]
Pentagon, CIA Sued for Lethal Drone Attacks on U.S. Citizens
July 18th, 2012Via: Wired: Survivors of three Americans killed by targeted drone attacks in Yemen last year sued top-ranking members of the United States government, alleging Wednesday they illegally killed the three, including a 16-year-old boy, in violation of international human rights law and the U.S. Constitution. “The government has killed three Americans. It should account for […]
The Lily-Pad Strategy
July 18th, 2012Via: Tom Dispatch: Disappearing are the days when Ramstein was the signature US base, an American-town-sized behemoth filled with thousands or tens of thousands of Americans, PXs, Pizza Huts, and other amenities of home. But don’t for a second think that the Pentagon is packing up, downsizing its global mission, and heading home. In fact, […]
CNN on the Iran Threat
July 16th, 2012Via: Salon: There’s a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity. Personally, I think it’s both: a healthy dose of each is needed. The system design is malicious, while those who serve as its public face are generally vacant.
DoD Report Reveals Some Detainees Interrogated While Drugged, Others “Chemically Restrained”
July 12th, 2012Via: Truthout: Detainees in custody of the US military were interrogated while drugged with powerful antipsychotic and other medications that “could impair an individual’s ability to provide accurate information,” according to a declassified Department of Defense (DoD) inspector general’s report that probed the alleged use of “mind altering drugs” during interrogations. In addition, detainees were […]
How Many Child Molestors Work for the NRO?
July 12th, 2012Via: McClatchy: One of the nation’s most secretive intelligence agencies is pressuring its polygraphers to obtain intimate details of the private lives of thousands of job applicants and employees, pushing the ethical and legal boundaries of a program that’s designed instead to catch spies and terrorists. The National Reconnaissance Office is so intent on extracting […]
