Archive for the 'War' Category
Hiding Surveillance and Killer Drones in Plain Sight
June 20th, 2011Via: New York Times: Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds. The […]
Largest Ever Marine Corps Drill on U.S. East Coast
June 20th, 2011[???] Via: CNN: It’s mid-June, a perfect time to visit the beach to watch porpoises play in the surf or seagulls strut the sand — or you could watch a formation of Marine Corps warplanes darting over the shore at hundreds of miles per hour. But don’t worry — the United States hasn’t declared war […]
Eisenhower’s Worst Fears Came True: We Invent Enemies to Buy the Bombs
June 19th, 2011Via: Guardian: Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for this post-imperial fidget and yet we keep getting trapped. Germans do not do it, or Spanish or Swedes. Britain’s borders and British people have not been under serious threat for a generation. Yet time and again […]
Libyan Rebels: DIY Weapons
June 15th, 2011Via: Al Jazeera: As the war in Libya stretches on, the availability of arms and ammunition is becoming a problem for rebel fighters. A school in Misurata has become the laboratory for invention of new weapons with the help of discards and scraps.
Change: First Lady Wants Hollywood to Excrete Even More Pro Military Propaganda
June 15th, 2011Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford: Hollywood is often characterized as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals. In Reel Power, Matthew Alford shows it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive U.S. corporate and political forces. Films like Transformers, Terminator: Salvation and Black Hawk Down are […]
$6.7 Billion In Cash Missing in Iraq
June 15th, 2011I don’t know how many times I’ve posted this one, but CNN has just aired a new piece about it, and, yep, the cash is still missing. Maybe it went to the same place as the missing $2.3 trillion that Rumsfeld mentioned on September 10, 2001. Via: CNN:
Secret Grand Jury Looking Into Atrocities at Abu Ghraib
June 14th, 2011Unless Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld wind up behind bars, it’s just another distraction. Come to think of it, even if they were thrown in prison, the other members of the Project for a New American Century would still be free to kill again. Via: Time: It has been nearly a decade since Manadel al-Jamadi, an […]
Vietnam Holds Live-Fire Exercises as Territorial Dispute with China Escalates
June 14th, 2011Via: Guardian: China has warned other countries not to become involved in an escalating sea border dispute with Vietnam that reflects concern over Beijing’s increasing international power and confidence. Experts say the stand-off between China and Vietnam – two of the six powers laying claim to a number of islands and their surrounding waters in […]
Blackwater Hires Former AIG Regulatory Compliance Chief
June 13th, 2011I couldn’t make it up if I tried. Via: Wired: Nothing says, “We’re through with scandal!” quite like hiring a former executive from one of the country’s leading economic bloodsuckers. Blackwater — sorry, Xe Services — really wants to turn the PR page from the bad old days of Nisour Square, when the infamous private […]
U.S. Government Finally Declassifies Pentagon Papers: Complete Archive Posted Today
June 13th, 201134% of this is newly declassified information. Via: U.S. National Archives: The Pentagon Papers, officially titled “Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force”, was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed. […]
