Archive for the 'War' Category
Psychologist Who Developed U.S. Torture Program Receives $31 Million No-Bid Contract
October 17th, 2010Here’s another one for your bulging Hope and Change file folder. Via: Salon: The Army earlier this year steered a $31 million contract to a psychologist whose work formed the psychological underpinnings of the Bush administration’s torture program. The Army awarded the “sole source” contract in February to the University of Pennsylvania for resilience training, […]
The Toyota Hilux: The Vehicular Equivalent of the AK-47
October 16th, 2010We visited a very reputable used car dealership—that handles lots of Japanese used vehicles—and asked the owner: Why are there so few utes (pickups) available? The owner of the used car dealership told us, “Well heeled Pakistanis are pretty much outbidding everyone at the used vehicle auctions in Japan. The utes are winding up in […]
Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Cheese
October 15th, 2010Via: Poor Richard’s Blog: Morningland Dairy is the latest attempt by the FDA to fulfill the Healthy People 2020 objective to kill raw dairy. Morningland is owned by Joseph and Denise Dixon, who operate the cheese plant and make raw cheese from cows kept right on the property and managed by one of their eldest […]
Super Soaker Inventor May Hold the Key to Affordable Solar Power
October 13th, 2010Take this graph into consideration as you read the piece below. Via: The Atlantic: From his childhood in segregated Mobile, Alabama, to his run-ins with a nay-saying scientific establishment, the engineer Lonnie Johnson has never paid much heed to those who told him what he could and couldn’t accomplish. Best known for creating the state-of-the-art […]
Opium Fields Surround Main Australian Base in Afghanistan
October 11th, 2010Via: The Age: MORE than half the fields surrounding the main Australian base in Afghanistan are being used to grow opium poppies, as coalition forces struggle to ween locals off the lucrative crop. Locals question why troops and police have failed to crack down on the semi-open sale of the poppies, according to the report […]
Russia’s State of the Art Inflatable Weapon Decoys
October 11th, 2010Pics at Telegraph. Via: BBC: The Russian military has come up with an inventive way to deceive the enemy and save money at the same time: inflatable weapons. They look just like real ones: they are easy to transport and quick to deploy. You name it, the Russian army is blowing it up: from pretend […]
Surprise — The Very Dark Side of U.S. History
October 11th, 2010Via: Alternet: There is a dark — seldom acknowledged — thread that runs through U.S. military doctrine, dating back to the early days of the Republic. This military tradition has explicitly defended the selective use of terror, whether in suppressing Native American resistance on the frontiers in the 19th Century or in protecting U.S. interests […]
Nato Contractors Attacking Own Vehicles in Pakistan
October 9th, 2010Via: BBC: Nato supply convoys travelling through Pakistan to Afghanistan have regularly come under attack in the past, but following Pakistan’s decision to block their route through the Khyber Pass, they now face an even bigger security threat. Hundreds of tankers and trucks have been left stranded on highways and depots across Pakistan, with little […]
Killing Each Taliban Soldier Costs $50 Million?
October 6th, 2010There are, however, a few metrics by which “victory” for the U.S. in Afghanistan may be measured. First of all, the fact that mayhem continues is a victory for the corporations that profit from the absurd war-related contracts. There’s the unknown billions of heroin related dollars that are generated from covert operations in Afghanistan. The […]
James Corbett: The Truth About Terrorism
October 5th, 2010Research Credit: mja
