Archive for the 'War' Category
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 […]
The Secret History of Silicon Valley
April 6th, 2010Via: Google Tech Talks / YouTube:
Classified U.S. Military Video Depicts Murder of Iraqi Civilians and Two Reuters Journalists
April 5th, 2010Via: collateralmurder.com: WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The […]
U.S. Special Forces Soldiers Dug Bullets Out of Their Victims’ Bodies After a Botched Night Raid, Washed the Wounds with Alcohol, Then Lied to Superiors About What Happened
April 5th, 2010Via: Times Online: US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims’ bodies in the bloody aftermath of a botched night raid, then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened, Afghan investigators have told The Times. Two pregnant women, a teenage girl, a police officer and his brother […]
Meet the Sims… and Shoot Them: The Rise of Militainment
April 4th, 2010Via: Foreign Policy: The country of Ghanzia is embroiled in a civil war. As a soldier in America’s Army, your job is to do everything from protect U.S. military convoys against AK-47-wielding attackers to sneak up on a mountain observatory where arms dealers are hiding out. It is a tough and dangerous tour of duty […]
The Little Nukes That Got Away
April 2nd, 2010No, the Davy Crockett is not an April Fool’s joke. Via: Foreign Policy: The Davy Crockett was one of the smallest nuclear weapons ever made by the United States. Built in the late 1950s, and designed for the battlefields of Europe to stop a possible Warsaw Pact invasion, the warhead looked like a watermelon, being […]
More Bombings in Russia
March 31st, 2010Via: CNN: Twelve people — nine of them police officers — were killed Wednesday when two bombs exploded in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, officials told CNN. Another 23 people, including 11 police officers, were hospitalized with wounds from the bombings, at least one of which was carried out by a suicide bomber, according to […]
Mike McConnell and the American Corporate State
March 30th, 2010I’ve included just a few choice excerpts from this great article. If you only click through on one story today, make this the one. Via: Salon: In a political culture drowning in hidden conflicts of interests, exploitation of political office for profit, and a rapidly eroding wall separating the public and private spheres, Michael McConnell […]
