Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. TO ANNOUNCE UNILATERAL AERIAL BLOCKADE ON SYRIA [???]
February 27th, 2012Via: ynet: The Pentagon is readying for the possibility of intervention in Syria, aiming to halt Syrian President Bashsar Assad’s violent crackdown on protesters, the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Saturday, citing a US military offical. According to the official, the intervention scenario calls for the establishment of a buffer zone on the Turkish border, in […]
And Now… ‘State Department Quietly Warning Region on Syrian WMDs’
February 25th, 2012Mmm hmm. Via: Foreign Policy: The State Department has begun coordinating with Syria’s neighbors to prepare for the handling of President Bashar al-Assad’s extensive weapons of mass destruction if and when his regime collapses, The Cable has learned. This week, the State Department sent a diplomatic demarche to Syria’s neighbors Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi […]
U.S. Super-Sizing Afghan Jail It Promised to Abandon
February 20th, 2012Via: Wired: There once was a plan to turn over the main U.S. detention center in Afghanistan to control of the Afghans in 2011. That’s out the window. Instead, the military is offering millions to vastly expand the center’s inmate intake. Specifically, $35 million will fund expansions necessary to house “approximately 2,000 detainees” at the […]
Iranian State Media PressTV Claims Jamming in Europe and Online
February 20th, 2012Via: PressTV: Jamming signals have been reportedly interrupting the broadcast of Press TV, Iran’s 24-hour English-language news channel, in various locations across Europe. Press TV viewers in Europe say the frequent attacks last three to four minutes each time. Some reports indicate that the news channel’s online stream is also targeted at the same time […]
Laser ‘Dazzler’ Weapon Approved for Use by Police and Coast Guard
February 20th, 2012Via: New Scientist: THE US police and coastguard may soon start using laser “dazzlers” like those the American and British militaries have employed for years at checkpoints in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the SHOT Show last month in Las Vegas, Nevada, B.E. Meyers Electro-Optics of Redmond, Washington, unveiled the first laser dazzler that has been […]
Nuclear Weapons on a Highway Near You
February 20th, 2012Via: Mother Jones: “Is that it?” My wife leans forward in the passenger seat of our sensible hatchback and points ahead to an 18-wheeler that’s hauling ass toward us on a low-country stretch of South Carolina’s Highway 125. We’ve been heading west from I-95 toward the Savannah River Site nuclear facility on the Georgia-South Carolina […]
Israel Deploying ‘Iron Dome’ in Tel Aviv
February 20th, 2012Via: AFP: The Israeli military will on Monday deploy a battery of rocket interceptors from its “Iron Dome” system in the Tel Aviv region, a military spokesman said on Sunday. “Iron Dome is being incorporated into the heart of the Israeli military. As part of this process, the system is deployed in different sites and […]
Iran Stops Oil Sales to British, French Companies
February 19th, 2012Via: Reuters: Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state’s lifeblood, oil. “Exporting crude to British and French companies has been stopped … we will sell our oil to new customers,” spokesman Alireza Nikzad was […]
DARPA Wants to Give Soldiers Robot Surrogates, Avatar Style
February 19th, 2012Via: IEEE: In the movie Avatar, humans hooked themselves up to brain-machine-interface pods with which they could control giant genetically engineered human-alien hybrids. It’s just a movie, but DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, doesn’t care: It wants this kind of system to be real, just replace “giant genetically engineered human-alien hybrids” with […]
SWIFT READY TO BLOCK IRANIAN BANK TRANSACTIONS
February 18th, 2012When I studied International Relations in college, we were taught that economic sanctions could be on par with, “Rockets and bombs,” as one professor put it, and potentially much worse. Questions about economic sanctions amounting to collective punishment and other violations of International Law are ignored by the perpetrators. These types of policies resulted in […]
