Archive for the 'War' Category
Hersh: Congress Approved Major Escalation of Covert Operations Against Iran; Funding Groups That May Be Described as Al Qaeda
June 29th, 2008Via: New Yorker: Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by […]
Giant Oil Companies to Return to Iraq Under No Bid Contracts
June 19th, 2008Imagine my complete and total shock. Via: IHT: Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power. Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in […]
Wikileaks: U.S. Special Forces Counter-Insurgency Manual FM 31-20-3
June 16th, 2008Does the following seem familiar to American and British readers? Most of the counterintelligence measures used will be overt in nature and aimed at protecting installations, units, and information and detecting espionage, sabotage, and subversion. Examples of counterintelligence measures to use are * Background investigations and records checks of persons in sensitive positions and persons […]
British Mercenary to Stand Trial for Attempted Coup in Equatorial Guinea
June 13th, 2008Via: Reuters: British mercenary Simon Mann will go on trial on Tuesday for leading a failed 2004 coup in Equatorial Guinea, the West African state’s public prosecutor said on Friday. Jose Olo Obono said that Mann, arrested in 2004 in Zimbabwe with 70 mercenaries en route for oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, will face three main charges: […]
How Iran Has Bush Over a Barrel
June 13th, 2008“The Iranian strategic military plan for engaging the United States must include crippling oil exports from the Persian Gulf. Iran is (probably) in a position to close the Strait of Hormuz, the most strategically important waterway in the world.” —Cryptogon, 7/15/2006, The Strait of Hormuz: It’s Not That Bad, It’s Worse FYI: Robert Baer, the […]
High Court Sides with Guantanamo Detainees Again
June 12th, 2008Via: AP: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. In its third rebuke of the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely […]
Secret Plan to Keep U.S. Forces in Iraq Indefinitely
June 6th, 2008The U.S. will never leave Iraq voluntarily. A hasty retreat, Saigon style, because of imperial overextension? Maybe. But no orderly withdrawal. Don’t be fooled by this nonsense theater. Doubt it? What part of Superbase don’t you understand? That’s what people in the business of exploitation and death call a “geostrategic asset.” States don’t give up […]
Developmental Aid Workers Are Killing Africa
June 6th, 2008Must Read Related: Money Raised for Africa ‘Goes to Civil Wars’ Via: Der Spiegel: No one has to starve in Africa. Hunger there results from the failures of unscrupulous rulers — and their friends in the West. Paradoxically, it is the aid workers who are standing in the way of progress. If you follow the […]
U.S. Soldiers Use “Drop Weapons” to Cover Up Murders of Civilians in Iraq
June 4th, 2008Say “hello” to the Future Pigs of America, coming to a police force near you. Via: Huffington Post: Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using “drop weapons” to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and […]
Air Force Aims for ‘Full Control’ of ‘Any and All’ Computers
June 4th, 2008In general terms, vulnerabilities often come about as the result of ignorant managers implementing functionality against the advice of competent engineers, or, if a network has been built with budget constraints that wind up placing security somewhere down the list of priorities. If the target network has been built properly, however, the Air Force’s fantasies […]
