Archive for the 'War' Category
Hope and Change: Obama Regime Hiring Mercenaries ‘At a Rate That Would Make Bush Blush’
December 16th, 2010Via: Daily Beast: Without much notice or debate, the Obama administration has greatly expanded the outsourcing of key parts of the U.S.-led counterinsurgency wars in the Middle East and Africa, and as a result, for its secretive air war and special operations missions around the world, the U.S. has become increasingly reliant on a new […]
U.S. Army to Issue Smartphones to All Soldiers
December 16th, 2010You’ll love this. Via: USA Today: The Army wants to issue every soldier an iPhone or Android cellphone — it could be a soldier’s choice. And to top it off, the Army wants to pay your monthly phone bill. To most soldiers, it sounds almost too good to be true, but it’s real, said Lt. […]
New Intel Core VPro Processors Can Be Remotely Disabled Over 3G Networks, Even When an OS Is Not Running
December 15th, 2010Via: PC World: Intel on Wednesday said it would release in the first quarter next year Core VPro processors for business desktops and laptops that incorporate a host of new security and management features. The new chips will come in dual-core and quad-core variants, and will be based on the company’s upcoming Sandy Bridge architecture, […]
U.S. Vulnerable to Rare Earth Shortages
December 15th, 2010Via: New York Times: The United States is too reliant on China for minerals crucial to new clean energy technologies, making the American economy vulnerable to shortages of materials needed for a range of green products — from compact fluorescent light bulbs to electric cars to giant wind turbines. So warns a detailed report to […]
U.S. Appoints First Cyber Warfare General
December 15th, 2010Via: Guardian: The US military has appointed its first senior general to direct cyber warfare – despite fears that the move marks another stage in the militarisation of cyberspace. The newly promoted four-star general, Keith Alexander, takes charge of the Pentagon’s ambitious and controversial new Cyber Command, designed to conduct virtual combat across the world’s […]
Afghanistan: Petraeus Triples Air War
December 14th, 2010Via: Wired: November is ordinarily the month when the air war in Afghanistan — and really, the whole American-led campaign — ratchets down for the winter. This November, with Gen. David Petraeus in charge of the war effort, things have been different. Radically different. NATO fighter jets and attack planes launched their bombs and missiles […]
The Shadow War
December 13th, 2010Via: Newsweek: Historically, Israel’s covert operations have been on the violent side. When it comes to strategic murders, the Mossad has established a record 50 years long of “targeted assassinations,” often taking out scientists who tried to help its enemies develop weapons of mass destruction. It has carried out hits all over the Middle East […]
$52 Billion of American Aid and Still Afghans are Dying of Starvation
December 13th, 2010Failure? Someone wound up with a whole lot of opium and heroin, and a bunch of corporations made a killing from a gusher of absurd and lucrative contracts. That sounds more like just another day at the office than failure to me—considering the criminal organizations involved and their blood soaked gravy train. —Top U.S. Commander […]
U.S. Navy: Record Breaking Rail Gun Shot
December 13th, 2010When I was at Brooks Institute in the 1990s, I used to be fascinated by the work done by the people who specialized in high speed photography (although, the food photography freaks were the weirdest kids on campus). I learned a bit about how speed stuff works, but that was a long time ago. Speeds […]
American Intelligence Officials Created a ‘Safe Haven’ in the United States for Certain Nazis
December 12th, 2010Via: New York Times: After World War II, American counterintelligence recruited former Gestapo officers, SS veterans and Nazi collaborators to an even greater extent than had been previously disclosed and helped many of them avoid prosecution or looked the other way when they escaped, according to thousands of newly declassified documents.
