Archive for the 'War' Category
Russia Criticizes U.S., NATO Over Afghan Drugs *wink* *wink*
March 18th, 2010If the squeals out of Russia about drug trafficking are real, and I have serious doubts about that, why not mention this bridge? In August 2007, the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan walked side by side with the U.S. commerce secretary across a new $37 million concrete bridge that the Army Corps of Engineers designed […]
China PLA Officer Urges Challenging U.S. Dominance
March 18th, 2010Related: Trinitite: Trinitite, also known as Atomite or Alamogordo Glass, is the name given to the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The glass is primarily composed of arkosic sand composed of quartz grains and feldspar (both microcline and […]
Time Magazine: “What if the millions of so-called dropouts are onto something?”
March 16th, 2010I don’t agree with a lot of the woowoo in this article [cheap fuel cells powering off grid shanty towns?], but it’s still a good article and it describes a lot of things that Becky and I implemented in our own lives years ago. You’re probably sick of seeing this repeated on Cryptogon, over and […]
Defense Department Official Established Network of Private Contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to Help Track and Kill Suspected Militants
March 15th, 2010Via: New York Times: Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from […]
U.S. “Bunker-Buster” Bombs On Way To Diego Garcia?
March 15th, 2010Via: Herald Scotland: Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. […]
U.S. Intelligence Planned to Destroy WikiLeaks
March 15th, 2010Via: Wikileaks: This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. “The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out”. It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses “trust […]
Mexico: Three People Connected to the U.S. Consulate in Juarez Executed in Front of Their Children
March 15th, 2010All governments routinely run covert operations out of their embassies and consulates. I have no good reason to believe that this incident had anything to do with covert operations, however, multiple articles quote family members and neighbors who don’t know what Lesley A. Enriquez did at the consulate. “Officials” in Washington also don’t know what […]
French Bread Spiked with LSD in CIA Experiment
March 11th, 2010Via: Telegraph: A 50-year mystery over the ‘cursed bread’ of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment. In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and […]
The World’s Most Expensive Military Cemetery
March 9th, 2010I don’t think much about what could have been, but it’s hard not to when looking at this abomination. Via: Telegraph: The world’s most expensive military cemetery, a £22.6 billion centre dubbed “The Boneyard”, has been pictured in a spectacular series of new high-resolution Google Earth satellite images. The 2,600 acre facility, officially known Davis-Monthan […]
One in Three Killed by U.S. Drone Strikes is a Civilian
March 8th, 2010Via: Raw Story: The US military has used drones to attack suspected terrorists in Pakistan since at least 2004. Proponents of the small, unmanned planes say they are capable of “surgical strikes” that reduce civilian casualties and effectively combat terrorism. Is that true? Well, not really, according to a new report from the New America […]
