Archive for the 'War' Category
Mexico Sending 5,000 Troops to Juarez
February 26th, 2009Via: Reuters: Mexico is sending up to 5,000 new troops and federal police to the country’s most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a brutal war between drug gangs aided by corrupt police. The army said on Thursday the new deployment could take the number of soldiers and […]
Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban… To Stop Violence in Mexico?
February 26th, 2009Well, I said, “Don’t dawdle.” And here we are. Via: ABC News: The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today. “As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like […]
Mexico Is in Free Fall
February 26th, 2009Via: Guardian: Shortly before the US elections last November, then vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden was widely criticised for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a “generated” international crisis, in much the way that the Soviet Union “tested” John F Kennedy shortly after he assumed office. Biden did […]
U.S. Military Might Be Sent to U.S.-Mexico Border as Drug Cartel Chaos Spirals
February 26th, 2009Via: Los Angeles Times: The Justice Department announced Wednesday that authorities had arrested more than 730 people across the country in a 21-month investigation targeting Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel and its infiltration into U.S. cities. The arrests, including 50 on Wednesday in California, Minnesota, Maryland and the nation’s capital, come amid growing concern in Washington […]
CIA Signals Continuity With Bush Era
February 26th, 2009Change. Via: Wall Street Journal: The Central Intelligence Agency’s new director outlined spy policies Wednesday, including an aggressive campaign in Pakistan, that underscored considerable continuity with the Bush administration. CIA Director Leon Panetta, in his first meeting with reporters, said the agency will continue to carry out drone attacks on militants in Pakistan. He also […]
The Anti-Bono: Dambisa Moyo and “Dead Aid”
February 25th, 2009Via: New York Times: Q: As a native of Zambia with advanced degrees in public policy and economics from Harvard and Oxford, you are about to publish an attack on Western aid to Africa and its recent glamorization by celebrities. “Dead Aid,” as your book is called, is particularly hard on rock stars. Have you […]
Putin and Emerging Barter Arrangements
February 25th, 2009Direct barter relationships for energy, raw materials. Cut out the middleman (banks). The USUKEU confetti paper industrial complex will do anything and everything to stop this. Via: Kitco: Putin openly called the current unipolar world obsolete, referring indirectly to the US-UK dominance. This is as close as one could come to hearing that the current […]
China Calls on Russia to Explain Cargo Ship Sinking
February 20th, 2009Via: Reuters: China called on Russia on Thursday to explain how a Chinese cargo ship sank in Russian waters after reports it was fired on by the Russian military. Seven Chinese sailors were missing after the “New Star” sank on Saturday in stormy seas off Vladivostok and after a Russian warship shot at least 500 […]
‘Absurd’ Conspiracy Theories Prevalent in Afghanistan
February 19th, 2009Nato forces mistakenly supplied food, water and arms to Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials today admitted. Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from a helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province. The coalition helicopter had intended to deliver pallets of supplies to a police checkpoint in Ghazni, a remote section of […]
The Invisible Hand of the Market: British Troops Seize £50 Million of Afghan Opium
February 18th, 2009What I think is happening here is that the USUK smack industrial complex has decided to drive up the street price of heroin. My theory will be confirmed if we hear that Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan includes counter-narcotics operations. Why now? First of all, heroin is cheap. Too cheap: A gram of […]
