Archive for the 'War' Category
B-2 Stealth Bomber Crashes: $1.2 Billion Goes Up in Smoke
February 23rd, 2008Via: AFP: The US military was investigating on Saturday after a B-2 stealth bomber crashed on take-off from the Pacific island of Guam, the first such incident involving the futuristic craft. Both pilots on board ejected safely as the 1.2-billion-dollar radar-evading plane, with its distinctive triangular shape, went down at Andersen airbase on the remote […]
Turkey Launches Ground Operation in Iraq
February 22nd, 2008Via: AP: Turkish troops launched a ground incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, the military said Friday — a move that dramatically escalates Turkey’s conflict with the militants. It is the first confirmed ground operation by the Turkish military into Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. […]
NATO Takes Control of Kosovo Border Crossing with Serbia; Re-Establishes Order
February 20th, 2008Maybe the EU learned from the horrors of the 1990s??? Is that possible? It is a very good thing that NATO stepped in quickly here. Right now, the Serbian leadership is playing it cool, in public, but I really have to wonder what the tone is like in the diplomatic traffic between Belgrade and Moscow… […]
Energy Conflicts and Differential Profits: Poor Performance of Oil Stocks Predicts Middle East Conflicts
February 19th, 2008Via: Alternative Information Center — Economy of the Occupation 10: Cheap Wars: The key beneficiaries of this new, indirect link are the large oil companies. The geographic centre of this process is the Middle East. After the Vietnam War, the Middle East has become the hot spot of global conflict, with obvious corollaries for the […]
How the Spooks Took Over the News
February 15th, 2008Via: Independent: So, who exactly is producing fiction for the media? Who wrote the Zarqawi letters? Who created the fantasy story about Osama bin Laden using a network of subterranean bases in Afghanistan, complete with offices, dormitories, arms depots, electricity and ventilation systems? Who fed the media with tales of the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, […]
NSA to Monitor Computer Networks of All Federal Agencies
February 6th, 2008Via: Washington Post: President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community’s role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies’ computer systems. The directive, whose content is classified, authorizes the intelligence agencies, in particular the National Security Agency, to monitor the computer networks of […]
More than One Million Iraqis Dead Since 2003 Invasion
February 3rd, 2008Via: AFP: More than one million Iraqis have died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, according to a study published Wednesday. A fifth of Iraqi households lost at least one family member between March 2003 and August 2007 due to the conflict, said data compiled by […]
Historical Costs of U.S. Wars (In 2007 Dollars)
February 3rd, 2008Via: Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation: World War II $3.2 trillion Iraq and Afghanistan To Date $695.7 billion Vietnam War $670 billion World War I $364 billion Korean War $295 billion Persian Gulf War $94 billion Civil War (both Union and Confederate costs) $81 billion Spanish-American War $7 billion American Revolution $4 billion […]
Former Chief Global Strategist at Morgan Stanley: Head for the Hills
January 30th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Barton Biggs has some offbeat advice for the rich: Insure yourself against war and disaster by buying a remote farm or ranch and stocking it with “seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc.” The “etc.” must mean guns. “A few rounds over the approaching brigands’ heads would probably be a compelling persuader […]
French Bank Says Trader Hacked Computers
January 28th, 2008Well, well, well… I’m glad I included the BS option in my initial post on this incident. Please see, Unloading Toxic Waste Mortgage Backed Securities: “We Americans Were Very Clever,” and pay close attention to the part about the timing: We’ll see how clever they are when the Good Fellas show up to collect. At […]
