Archive for the 'War' Category
Flashback 1969: GE Walking Truck
June 2nd, 2011Look familiar?
The Heavy Cost of the Bush-Obama Murder Rampage
June 1st, 2011Via: Lew Rokwell: In every election cycle, the politicians love to pretend there is a difference among them on the foreign policy questions. Yet on these issues of unsurpassed importance, we see the Democrats and Republicans are all part of the same bloodthirsty gang. On the superficial level of presidential politics, Obama and Bush appeared […]
Libya Lost $1.3 Billion on Options Trades Done with Goldman Sachs
May 31st, 2011But first, remember this one? The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs: The point to bear in mind, as Mr. Sloan brilliantly makes clear, is that as Goldman was peddling C.M.O.’s, it was also shorting the junk on a titanic scale through index sales — showing, at least to me, how horrible a […]
U.S. to View Major Cyber Attacks as Acts of War
May 31st, 2011The Bin Laden spectacle was completely absurd from top to bottom—and now… Via: AFP: The Pentagon has adopted a new strategy that will classify major cyber attacks as acts of war, paving the way for possible military retaliation, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The newspaper said the Pentagon plans to unveil its first-ever […]
The Whistleblower
May 30th, 2011If you don’t know what this is about, see the handy Employee involvement in child sex slave traffic section on the Wikipedia page for DynCorp. And remember: “We Serve Today For a Better Tomorrow.” Related: The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice by Kathryn Bolkovac Bolkovac, who worked as part […]
UK Training Saudi Forces Used to Crush Arab Spring
May 29th, 2011Via: Guardian: Britain is training Saudi Arabia’s national guard – the elite security force deployed during the recent protests in Bahrain – in public order enforcement measures and the use of sniper rifles. The revelation has outraged human rights groups, which point out that the Foreign Office recognises that the kingdom’s human rights record is […]
Lockheed Network Hit by Major Disruption
May 29th, 2011Via: Reuters: Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier, is experiencing a major disruption to its computer systems that could be related to a problem with network security, a defense official and two sources familiar with the issue said on Thursday. Lockheed, the biggest provider of information technology to the U.S. government, is grappling with […]
Three Chinese Government Buildings Bombed
May 26th, 2011Via: Telegraph: Three Chinese government buildings have been bombed in the southern city of Fuzhou, in Jiangxi province, killing two and injuring six. The first blast went off in the car park of the Fuzhou public prosecutor’s office just after nine o’clock this morning, as workers were arriving for the day. Two other bombs went […]
Serbia Arrests Ratko Mladic
May 26th, 2011Via: CBS News: The Serbian government confirmed Thursday that Ratko Mladic, Europe’s most wanted war crimes fugitive, had been arrested. A man who identified himself as Milorad Komadic when he was arrested Thursday is the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander. The director of communications for the government of President Boris Tadic confirmed to CBS News’ […]
A Fifth of Russia’s State Defence Spending Is Stolen Every Year
May 25th, 2011Putin the Apostle? Via: Calgary Sun: A fifth of Russia’s state defence spending is stolen every year by corrupt officials, dishonest generals and crooked contractors, Russia’s chief military prosecutor said in an interview published on Tuesday. President Dmitry Medvedev says endemic corruption is holding back Russia’s development, but anti-bribery groups say the problem has become […]
