Archive for the 'War' Category
Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers
August 16th, 2007Via: Bloomberg: A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas, U.S. officials said. The company also billed and was paid $455,009 to ship three machine screws costing $1.31 each to […]
Iranian Unit to Be Labeled ‘Terrorist’
August 15th, 2007This is an extremely serious development. By the way, has Halliburton stopped doing business with the Iranians yet? Via: Washington Post: The United States has decided to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a “specially designated global terrorist,” according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target […]
Fatigue Cripples U.S. Army in Iraq
August 13th, 2007Even the “Public Affairs” people, who are paid to lie to reporters, are having trouble maintaining appearances now. Via: Guardian: Where once the war in Iraq was defined in conversations with these men by untenable ideas – bringing democracy or defeating al-Qaeda – these days the war in Iraq is defined by different ways of […]
Italy Probe Unearths Huge Iraq Arms Deal
August 12th, 2007What is it about Italy and weird arms deals involving Iraq? Remember, Iraqi Insurgents Carrying Covert Ops Bump Guns? Via: Yahoo / AP: In a hidden corner of Rome’s busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler’s checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs. What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue […]
Dick Cheney ’94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire
August 12th, 2007Via: Grand Theft Country:
Bush War Adviser Says Draft Worth a Look
August 11th, 2007Via: Guardian: Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush’s new war adviser said Friday. “I think it makes sense to certainly consider it,” Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public […]
‘Rival to NATO’ Begins First Military Exercise
August 7th, 2007Via: Times Online: Russian and Chinese troops are joining forces this week in the first military exercises by an international organisation that is regarded in some quarters as a potential rival to Nato. Thousands of soldiers and 500 combat vehicles will take part in “Peace Mission 2007â€, organised by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in […]
Surge: Afghanistan Now Responsible for 95% of Global Opium Production
August 5th, 2007The people behind this represent the real Plunge Protection Team. Via: Yahoo / AP: Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world’s near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials […]
The Coming Water Wars
August 4th, 2007Chart from Princeton.
U.S. Robots Deployed for Ground Combat in Iraq
August 3rd, 2007It’s not quite up to ED-209 standards (from Robocop), but it’s getting there. Also see, Deal of the Century. HAHA Via: Wired: Robots have been roaming the streets of Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any warzone — the machines are carrying guns. After […]
