Archive for the 'War' Category
UN APPROVES NO-FLY ZONE OVER LIBYA
March 17th, 2011Update: UN Approves No-Fly Zone Over Libya Via: Los Angeles Times: The U.N. Security Council has voted to authorize a no-fly zone and other military action against the regime of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi. The vote was 10 to 0, with five abstentions. The five were China, Russia, Brazil, India and Germany. Military officials in […]
Army Recruits Prisoners to Make Body Armor
March 14th, 2011Via: Wired: Building parts for Patriot missile systems was just a warm-up, apparently, for a government-owned company that relies on federal inmates making as little as 23 cents an hour. On Wednesday, the U.S. Army announced that it handed Federal Prison Industries a no-bid, nearly $20 million contract to build body armor. It’s the latest […]
Saudi Troops Arrive in Bahrain as Protests Escalate
March 14th, 2011Via: Christian Science Monitor: Amid concerns of a Shiite uprising in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia sent troops to support the Sunni monarchy. Bahrain’s opposition denounced the move as an ‘occupation.’ Saudi forces have reportedly arrived in Bahrain to reinforce its police, who clashed with protesters yesterday in an escalation of the month-long Shiite-led protests calling for […]
Prison Labor Used to Build Parts for Patriot Missiles
March 9th, 2011Via: Wired: This spring, the United Arab Emirates is expected to close a deal for $7 billion dollars’ worth of American arms. Nearly half of the cash will be spent on Patriot missiles, which cost as much as $5.9 million apiece. But what makes those eye-popping sums even more shocking is that some of the […]
Black 9/11: A Walk on the Dark Side
March 9th, 2011Via: Foreign Policy Journal: In his important 2006 book, Nemesis, the Last Days of the American Republic, the third and concluding part of a trilogy, the late Chalmers Johnson, who was an expert on Japan and US foreign policy, writes that as much as 40% of the Pentagon budget is “black,” meaning hidden from public […]
NATO Starts 24/7 Surveillance of Libyan Airspace
March 8th, 2011Via: CNN: NATO has launched around-the-clock surveillance flights of Libya as it considers various options for dealing with escalating violence in the war-torn country, America’s ambassador to the organization told reporters Monday. Representatives of key Western powers also highlighted the possibility of establishing a no-fly zone in Libya — part of growing campaign to break […]
U.S. Air Force Launches Second X-37B Autonomous Spacecraft
March 7th, 2011Via: Cnet: A second mysterious, robotic space plane was launched into orbit by the U.S. Air Force today, after the first craft safely returned to Earth late last year following a secretive months-long mission and speculation about its potential military or intelligence uses. The second Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV, left Cape Canaveral, […]
U.S. Looking at Tapping Strategic Oil Reserve
March 6th, 2011Oh sure. Via: Reuters: White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said on Sunday the Obama administration is considering tapping into the U.S. strategic oil reserve as one way to help ease soaring oil prices.
SAUDIS MOBILIZE THOUSANDS OF TROOPS TO QUELL GROWING REVOLT
March 6th, 2011It’s going to be an interesting Monday in the energy markets. Via: Independent: Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer and the regional domino whose fall the West fears most, yesterday announced that it would ban all protests and marches. The move – the stick to match the carrot of benefits worth $37bn (£23bn) recently […]
$1.2 Trillion: The Real U.S. National Security Budget
March 4th, 2011Via: Alternet: If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year. … A country with a gross domestic product of $1.2 trillion would have the 15th largest economy in the world, ranking between Canada and Indonesia, […]
