Archive for the 'War' Category
The Pentagon’s Runaway Budget
March 8th, 2010Via: antiwar.com: With his decision to boost defense spending, President Obama is continuing the process of re-inflating the Pentagon that began in late 1998 — fully three years before the 9/11 attacks on America. The FY 2011 budget marks a milestone, however: The inflation-adjusted rise in spending since 1998 will probably exceed 100 percent in […]
How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab
March 7th, 2010Via: Guardian: We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia’s largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel structure already stretches […]
U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran
March 7th, 2010Some related reading: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton Spider’s Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq by Alan Friedman Via: New York Times: The federal government […]
Private Military Contractor High on Opium Killed U.S. Marine?
March 5th, 2010Via: Daily Herald: No American soldier should die the way Josh Birchfield did. There was much more to his “supporting combat operations” death than what the military put out. It was the standard Pentagon release. A soldier is killed. A clerk types in their name. “____________ died while supporting combat operations.” There is no Pentagon […]
DoD Requires Hacker Certification
March 5th, 2010I don’t see this as an ominous development, or, put another way, any more ominous than the baseline level of ominous developments. It’s par for the course. As anyone who has ever been responsible for a network will tell you: You’ll either become like the opponent (on the network), or be owned by him. Or […]
Fallujah Doctors Report Rise in Birth Defects
March 4th, 2010Via: BBC: Doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the US after the Iraq invasion. The city witnessed fierce fighting in 2004 as US forces carried out a major offensive against insurgents. Now, the level of heart defects among newborn babies […]
U.S. Navy Conceals Nuclear Weapons Production in California
March 4th, 2010I thought Pantex was the only facility where this type of work was done. If anyone is in a position to call BS on this Indymedia piece, let me know. Via: Indymedia: A U.S. nuclear weapons assembly plant in California is off limits to any kind of photography, information gathering, or reporting. Local residents are […]
Blackwater Created Cutout to Continue Receiving Government Contracts
March 2nd, 2010Via: Guardian: Employees of American defence contractor Blackwater took more than 500 assault rifles that were intended for the Afghan police force and routinely carried weapons without permission, it emerged in a hearing of the Senate armed services committee today. It also emerged that to shed its sullied reputation and win contracting business in Afghanistan, […]
Half the Members of an “Independent Panel” Appointed to Study the Quadrennial Defense Review Have Financial Ties to Defense Contractors
March 1st, 2010Via: USA Today: More than half of the panel members appointed to review the Pentagon’s latest four-year strategy blueprint have financial ties to defense contractors with a stake in the planning process, a USA TODAY analysis shows. Congress created the 20-member panel in 2006 to analyze the Defense Department’s four-year plan, known as the Quadrennial […]
Military Allows Twitter, Other Social Media
February 28th, 2010Military personnel are no different than any other target population that needs to be monitored and tracked. Who knows what will actually be done with the surveillance data that will be collected from this… Via: Reuters: The Pentagon announced on Friday it has authorized the use Twitter, Facebook and other so-called “Web 2.0” sites across […]
