Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. War Crimes: Cancer Rate in Fallujah Worse than Hiroshima
July 23rd, 2010Via: Global Research: The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004. According to the authors of a new study, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual […]
Joint Special Operations University: Blogs and Military Information Strategy
July 21st, 2010Via: U.S. Special Operations Command / Hosted at Cryptome (PDF): In this regard, information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence already within the target nation, group, or community to pass the U.S. message. In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of […]
Gordon Brown on Saddam Hussein: “This New World Order That We Were Trying to Create Was Being Put at Risk”
July 21st, 2010Killer Drones Get Stealthy
July 20th, 2010Via: Wired: Today’s killer drones are sitting ducks. Loud, slow-moving, and simple to spot, any air defense more potent than a militant with an AK is liable to take one of the robotic planes down. But the next generation of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) won’t be the airborne equivalent of fish in a barrel. […]
Top Secret America
July 19th, 2010Blah. The map doesn’t show the names of the companies. Additionally, according to the fine print on the map: “The locations of company headquarters have been adjusted to appear on the map within a mile of its actual location.” *shaking head* I guess this might deter some under-12-year-olds from figuring out the locations. You can, […]
U.S. Army Suicides in June: Highest Since Vietnam Era
July 19th, 2010Via: CNN: More U.S. soldiers killed themselves last month than in recent Army history, according to Army statistics released Thursday, confounding officials trying to reverse the grim trend. The statistics show that 32 soldiers killed themselves in June, the highest number in a single month since the Vietnam era. Twenty-one of them were on active […]
U.S. Special Forces Selected Lockheed Martin for $5 Billion Soup to Nuts Treatment
July 16th, 2010Via: Zacks: Lockheed Martin Corp. won a contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command to provide full-scope logistics support to warfighters around the globe. The company will provide a wide range of mission-critical services, from aircraft and vehicle maintenance to IT and electronics support. The contract has a potential value of $5 billion spread over […]
NSA Falsified Intercepted Communications in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
July 16th, 2010Via: New York Times: In an echo of the debates over the discredited intelligence that helped make the case for the war in Iraq, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday released more than 1,100 pages of previously classified Vietnam-era transcripts that show senators of the time sharply questioning whether they had been deceived by […]
South Korea Deploys Killer Robots Along Border with North
July 13th, 2010Via: Telegraph: South Korea has deployed sentry robots capable of detecting and killing intruders along the heavily-fortified border with North Korea, officials said on Tuesday. Two robots with surveillance, tracking, firing and voice recognition systems were integrated into a single unit, a defence ministry spokesman said. The 400 million won (£220,000) unit was installed last […]
Taranis
July 12th, 2010Via: New Scientist: Sporting a gaping air intake in place of a cockpit, the UK’s first uncrewed fighter aircraft rolled out of a hangar at an airfield in Warton, Lancashire, today. Called Taranis, the wedge-shaped, 8-tonne stealth jet will be able to fly regular drone missions in regions of conflict – but it will also […]
