Archive for the 'War' Category
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 […]
Three Out of Four Undersea Cables Connecting Internet Traffic Between the Middle East and Europe Have Been Cut
December 20th, 2008Via: PC Magazine: European telecommunications providers reported Friday that three out of the four telecommunication cables connecting Internet traffic between the Middle East and Europe had been cut. In a statement, France Telecom reported that the “Sea Me We 4” cable was cut at 7:28 AM local time, the “Sea Me We3” was severed at […]
Mediterranean Fiber Optic Cables Cut, Disrupting Middle East Communications
December 19th, 2008Here we go again. Via: Bloomberg: Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted by submarine cable failures between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. The failures cut the flow of “data of various kinds” between Europe and the Middle East, and there’s no timeframe for when communications will be […]
Army Wages iPod Warfare in Baghdad
December 17th, 2008Via: Wired: During a humanitarian aid distribution in Baghdad’s Sadr City, Staff Sgt. Kent Crandall brought along a nifty iPod accessory: an Army psychological operations loudspeaker. Crandall had loaded the iPod with Iraqi pop music, which he cranked during the halal food handout in this war-torn neighborhood. This is only one of the tools in […]
The Leaky Ship of Human Terrain Systems
December 15th, 2008In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a society in order to repurpose it. Military failures will […]
Officer Killed, Police Chief Injured in Oregon Bank Explosion
December 14th, 2008Where else but America would the cops be so stupid that they would bring a suspected bomb INSIDE the premises of the intended target!? This is Darwin Award Hall of Fame material right here. It will also be an excuse for cops to shakedown lots of clueless hippies who had absolutely nothing to do with […]
AFRICOM China and Congo Resource Wars
December 2nd, 2008Via: Engdahl: If France was the covert target of US ‘surrogate warfare’ in 1994, today it is clearly China, which is the real threat to US control of Central Africa’s vast mineral riches. The Democratic Republic of Congo was renamed from the Republic of Zaire in 1997 when the forces of Laurent Désiré Kabila brought […]
India: Coordinated Terrorist Attacks
November 27th, 2008See, this is why the U.S. needs to attack Pakistan… *wink* *wink* Get it? Of course, it’s possible that this is some sort of organic insurgency. (Anything is possible, right?) I doubt it, though, because no critical economic infrastructure was hit. When the attackers start popping Internet and electrical infrastructure, shutting down the operations of […]
