Archive for the 'War' Category
Britain: Army Facing War Crimes Lawsuit Over Role in Fallujah Attacks
May 4th, 2010Via: Independent: Allegations that Britain was complicit in the use of chemical weapons linked to an upsurge in child deformity cases in Iraq, are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence. The case raises serious questions about the UK’s role in the American-led offensive against the city of Fallujah in the autumn of 2004 where […]
Obama Jokes About Predator Drones; Hundreds of Pakistani Civilians Murdered by Predator Drone Strikes in 2009 Alone
May 4th, 2010You’re killing us, Mr. President, tell us another one. The following is from, US Killed 700 Civilians in Pakistan Drone Strikes in 2009: On June 22, the US struck at a house officials called a “suspected militant hideout,” burying a few locals inside. When others rushed to the scene to rescue them, they launched another […]
U.S. Reveals Size of Nuclear Stockpile
May 4th, 2010As with just about everything that the rotten to the core Obama regime does, this apparently straightforward story requires heavy context fitting. 1. The Obama regime’s most recent nuclear weapons budget request, “A complete surrender to Senate Republicans,” represents the biggest increase in nuclear weapons related activities since the, “Early years of Ronald Reagan.” 2. […]
DynCorp Running “Counter-Narcotics” Missions Along Pakistan/Afghanistan Border
May 3rd, 2010Counter-Narcotics. *wink* Via: Wired: The airspace along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border is pretty crowded these days: Along with U.S., Afghan and Pakistani military missions, the CIA is running its own covert drone ops. Less well known, but perhaps equally controversial, is the State Department’s counter-narcotics air force, staffed by mercenaries. A recently released State Department Inspector […]
U.S. Generals Want Congress to Implement Nutrition Standards for iZombies Because They’re Too Fat to Fight
May 2nd, 2010Via: BBC: Rising rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, two retired generals have warned. More than a quarter of young Americans are now too fat to fight, they said. Writing in the Washington Post, the ex-commanders said the fat crisis ruled out more potential military service recruits […]
Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
May 1st, 2010Via: Fowles Books: The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile […]
Guatemala: Unearthing a Massacre
April 29th, 2010Via: Global Post: Archeologists this month meticulously unearthed the brittle, bare bones of what are thought to be at least 162 men, women and children killed by the Guatemalan army in 1982. Stoic old folks watched intently for signs of brothers and sisters; kids asked about the heaps of femurs and broken craniums. There were […]
Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for ‘War Crimes,’ According to Law Professor
April 29th, 2010Read the following book and let me know how many Americans have faced international tribunals for those atrocities: Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Via: Wired: The pilots waging America’s undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for “war crimes,” a prominent law […]
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
April 27th, 2010Via: New York Times: Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti. “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” […]
DARPA Tested Hypersonic Glider Related to Quick-Response Global Strike System, and Then Claims to Have Lost Contact with It
April 24th, 2010There has been a lot of coverage of the launch of the X-37b, but as the right hand was waving at us, did you notice what the left hand was up to? The same day, the U.S. launched a Minotaur rocket that reportedly carried a Hypersonic Test Vehicle, which is a test platform for the […]
