Archive for the 'War' Category
Ron Paul: We’re in for Big Trouble, Big Trouble, Big Trouble
January 4th, 2009Israeli Troops Launch Attack on Gaza
January 3rd, 2009Via: New York Times: Israeli tanks and troops swept across the border into Gaza on Saturday night, opening a ground war against the militant group Hamas after a week of intense airstrikes.
30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once
December 31st, 2008Cylons attack? Probably not. Anyway, there’s an object lesson in critical infrastructure here, even though this situation involves digital music players. Via: Ars: Around midnight Pacific time last night, 30GB Zunes began restarting and locking up at their boot screens. Reports have swamped official forums and fan sites, and Microsoft has yet to officially comment […]
The $775,000-a-Year GI
December 31st, 2008Via: CounterPunch: Kosiak estimates that by 2018, the total spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with related spending on veterans’ health care and other matters, could reach $1.7 trillion. The 88-page report, which includes 182 footnotes, provides an exhaustive look at the cost of Bush’s foreign adventures. It also provides a more […]
Israel Attacks Gaza, Hundreds Dead: Who Made a Killing?
December 27th, 2008What did the Benazir Bhutto assassination and the latest Israeli attacks in Gaza have in common? There was a strong move higher on gold immediately preceding both incidents, which were spaced one year apart, to the day. Remember how gold moved before Bhutto was killed? Check out this Bloomberg piece from yesterday (a day before […]
CIA Buys Off Afghan Warlords with Viagra
December 27th, 2008The Washington Post didn’t interview any of the child brides/rape victims for this story. Via: Washington Post: The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an […]
U.S. Police Could Get ‘Pain Beam’ Weapons
December 26th, 2008Via: New Scientist: The research arm of the US Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance using beams of laser light or microwaves, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects. The two devices under development by the civilian National […]
Change: Rice Says That Obama Will Follow Bush Foreign Policy
December 22nd, 2008The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election […]
Change: Up to 30,000 New U.S. Troops in Afghanistan by Mid-2009
December 22nd, 2008Via: AFP: The United States plans to send between 20,000 and 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by next summer, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said here Saturday. General David McKiernan, the US commander in Afghanistan, has asked for more than 20,000 extra US soldiers to counter a rise […]
Israeli Blockade ‘Forces Palestinians to Search Rubbish Dumps for Food’
December 21st, 2008Via: Guardian: Impoverished Palestinians on the Gaza Strip are being forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps to survive as Israel’s economic blockade risks causing irreversible damage, according to international observers. Figures released last week by the UN Relief and Works Agency reveal that the economic blockade imposed by Israel on Gaza in July […]
