Archive for the 'War' Category
CIA Briefers Regularly Mislead Hill Intelligence Panels, Ex-Spy Charges
May 27th, 2009This has only been standard operating procedure for about the last 62 years. Via: Congressional Quarterly Politics: A former deep-cover CIA operative says the spy agency’s congressional briefers routinely shade the truth or hide facts altogether from congressional overseers. “They mumble, they dissemble, and there’s a lot of ‘on the one hand . . .’” […]
North Korea Threatens Armed Strike, End to Armistice
May 27th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: North Korea threatened military action in response to South Korea joining a program to seize weapons shipments, and said it’s no longer bound by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. South Korea’s actions are tantamount to a “declaration of war,” the official Korean Central News Agency said in a statement today. […]
North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test
May 25th, 2009Via: Reuters: North Korea said it successfully conducted a nuclear test on Monday, a move certain to further isolate the impoverished state which argues it has no choice but to build an atomic arsenal to protect itself in a hostile world. “(North Korea) successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test on May 25 as part […]
Afghanistan: U.S. Forces Seize Almost 15 Tonnes of Narcotics Including Opium, Heroin and Morphine
May 22nd, 2009The commentary for this has already been written. See Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More “Aviation Support” and The Invisible Hand of the Market: British Troops Seize £50 Million of Afghan Opium. Via: Reuters: Afghan and U.S. forces have killed 34 militants, almost half of them in air […]
Guards Let Mexico Inmates Escape
May 22nd, 2009Via: BBC: Guards stood by as more than 50 prisoners, including some listed as dangerous by Interpol, walked out of a Mexican jail, officials say. It was initially thought that guards at the prison in the northern state of Zacatecas had been overpowered. The jail break, which occurred on Saturday, was captured on closed circuit […]
Green Berets: Military Brass Urge American Energy Revolution
May 20th, 2009Mmm hmm. Clean, green death rays. Via: Wall Street Journal: Retired military officers are urging the U.S. to get serious about changing the country’s approach to energy use. In a new report from Alexandria, Va.-based Center for Naval Analyses, a bevy of high-ranking former Army and Navy officials stress that the country’s reliance on oil […]
“For Years,” the Taliban Has Been Fighting the U.S. with Arms that the U.S. Shipped to Afghanistan
May 20th, 2009We get by with a little help from our friends. Via: AFP: Pentagon munitions have leaked from Afghan forces to Taliban militants, enabling them to fight an insurgency for years against materially superior US and Afghan forces, The New York Times reported. According to a Times study of ammunition markings, of 30 rifle magazines removed […]
Robot Warriors Will Get a Guide to Ethics
May 19th, 2009Oh sure. You better clip a clothes peg on your nose for this one. Via: MSNBC: Smart missiles, rolling robots, and flying drones currently controlled by humans, are being used on the battlefield more every day. But what happens when humans are taken out of the loop, and robots are left to make decisions, like […]
The Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons
May 18th, 2009Via: Alternet: Things go missing. It’s to be expected. Even at the Pentagon. Last October, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that the military’s accountants had misplaced a destroyer, several tanks and armored personnel carriers, hundreds of machine guns, rounds of ammo, grenade launchers and some surface-to-air missiles. In all, nearly $8 billion in weapons were […]
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
May 18th, 2009GQ has published alleged cover pages from briefing documents that Rumsfeld produced for Bush.
