Archive for the 'War' Category
Anybody’s Son Will Do
April 22nd, 2010Or daughter, as you’ll see if you watch the film. Via: Counter Currents: The film shows the process by which young men become psychologically engineered to kill or die on command. While the model used is the U.S. Marine Corps, it’s made clear that the modern techniques for creating soldiers are refined, dehumanizing and universal.
National Guard Recruiters Forged Re-Enlistment Papers
April 22nd, 2010Via: RawStory: Washington State National Guard recruiters repeatedly forged re-enlistment papers in a desperate attempt to hold on to soldiers in the run-up to the Iraq war surge, a local news channel’s investigation has found. In one case, a soldier found himself fighting against deployment to Iraq after re-enlistment papers with his signature on it […]
IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way”
April 21st, 2010Cryptogon Flashback to 2002: Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won’t In the years since I wrote that, I started to think that a massive attack on the physical network infrastructure would make increasing sense to the elite if the financial scams became totally untenable, and the perpetrators needed a distraction […]
U.S. Soldier Who Felt Bad About Slaughter of Civilians in Iraq: “I was told that I needed to get the sand out of my vagina”
April 21st, 2010Via: Wired: Wired.com: At the time you arrived on the scene, you didn’t know what had happened, is that right? Ethan McCord: Right. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. We heard the gunships open up. [Then] we were just told … to move to this [other] location. […]
Afghanistan: U.S. Death Squad Executed Students While They Slept
April 15th, 2010U.S. taxpayers pay $2000 per executed child to grieving Afghan parents. Happy April 15th. Via: Times Online: A night-time raid in eastern Afghanistan in which eight schoolboys from one family were killed was carried out on the basis of faulty intelligence and should never have been authorised, a Times investigation has found. Ten children and […]
The World’s Biggest Arms-Makers
April 13th, 2010I guessed that the top spot would be held by Lockheed, and by a large margin. Nope. Via: Economist: BAE Systems, a British firm, took the top spot as the world’s largest arms manufacturer in 2008. This is largely because the company has pursued a strategy of expanding the American side of its business in […]
Japan to Investigate Chinese Warships Near Okinawa
April 13th, 2010Via: Reuters: Japan said on Tuesday it would investigate the sighting of several Chinese submarines and warships last week in the high seas near the southern island of Okinawa, where U.S. bases are concentrated in Japan. Two submarines and eight vessels were spotted on Saturday about 140 km (90 miles) southwest of Okinawa, the first […]
Occupied Washington DC
April 11th, 2010Via: After Downing Street: As a visitor to our nation’s capital, I cannot tell you how disconcerting it is to step off the metro and find yourself face to face with a F-35 fighter jet. Where you would normally expect to find ads for cell phones or museum exhibitions, Washington’s subway, the second busiest in […]
Hostages Say Chiquita Funded Death Squads
April 10th, 2010Flashback: Lawyer for Chiquita in Colombia Death Squad Case May be Next U.S. Attorney General Via: Courthouse News Service: Three U.S. citizens were held hostage by a Colombian death squad for 5 years, and one was murdered, while Chiquita Brands International gave the terrorists weapons and millions of dollars in “protection payments,” the former hostages […]
Kyrgyzstani Government Ousted in Violent Uprising
April 8th, 2010Via: Globe and Mail: Massive, violent protests have toppled the authoritarian regime in Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished Central Asian republic wooed by both Moscow and Washington and the site of a sprawling air base vital to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. By nightfall, the opposition claimed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev had fled and a new government headed […]
