Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. ‘Loses’ 190,000 Weapons in Iraq
August 3rd, 2007Wait a minute, remember Pentagon arms its enemy’s enemies in Iraq: The US military has embarked on a new and risky strategy in Iraq by arming Sunni insurgents in the hope that they will tackle al-Qaida operatives in Iraq. The US high command this month gave permission to its officers on the ground to negotiate […]
U.S. Trying to Prevent Turkey from Attacking Kurdish Guerrillas… In Iraq
July 30th, 2007This cluster is spiraling out of control. Via: Washington Post: The morass in Iraq and deepening difficulties in Afghanistan have not deterred the Bush administration from taking on a dangerous and questionable new secret operation. High-level U.S. officials are working with their Turkish counterparts on a joint military operation to suppress Kurdish guerrillas and capture […]
Zeitgeist
July 30th, 2007Zeitgeist is an extremely impressive film that delivers a vast amount of fascinating information in a coherent way. It’s definitely worth setting aside a couple of hours of interruption free time to watch this. If you know any people who don’t quite “get it” yet, this will rattle their cages. Who produced this??? They’ve made […]
Former U.S. Soldiers Receiving Bills for Equipment Damaged During War
July 26th, 2007In other news, announced by Rumsfeld on September 10, 2001, the Department of Defense is missing $2.3 trillion. I wonder if the people responsible for looting that inconceivable sum of money are getting collection notices in the mail. Fascist regimes always eat their own. People who serve these governments are almost always ignorant of this […]
Halliburton Used Bribery Network to Bloat War Costs
July 25th, 2007In other news, Halliburton’s second-quarter net income more than doubled. Via: New York Times: Federal investigators have uncovered what they describe as a sweeping network of kickbacks, bribes and fraud involving at least eight employees and subcontractors of KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary, in a scheme to inflate charges for flying freight into Iraq in […]
U.S. Won’t Rule Out Force in Pakistan
July 23rd, 2007Via: Boston Globe: President Bush’s homeland security adviser said yesterday that the United States was prepared to take additional measures, including military force, to curb Al Qaeda’s operations in remote regions of Pakistan.
U.S. HAS REMOVED AN ESTIMATED STOCKPILE OF 130 NUCLEAR WEAPONS FROM RAMSTEIN AIR FORCE BASE
July 17th, 2007Via: Deutsche Welle: The Ramstein air base in southwestern Germany, long the largest US nuclear storehouse in Europe, has been completely emptied of its atomic arsenal according to experts who say the weapons are out of the country. This week the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists (FAS) said in a study that the US army […]
Energy: U.S. Strike on Iran Could Result in Asymmetric Blowback
July 17th, 2007I’ve been trying to think about some of the possible repercussions of a U.S. strike on Iran. All the usual ones came to mind: economic collapse, panic in the energy markets, possible nuclear war etc. But I came up with a different scenario. I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere. I thought that an attack on […]
Cheney Pushes Bush to Act on Iran
July 17th, 2007Did you hear the one about the strategic supersonic B1 bombers, originally designed to carry nuclear weapons, that are being used against the AK-47 wielding insurgents in Iraq? Tell me another one. Via: Guardian: The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George […]
Russian Energy Pipeline Giants to Form Corporate Armies
July 15th, 2007Via: mnweekly: Lawmakers voted Wednesday to give Russia’s natural-gas and oil pipeline monopolies the right to set up armed security units to protect the country’s energy infrastructure. One lawmaker said the move could lead to “a multitude of corporate armies.” Instead of hiring private security firms, state-controlled gas giant OAO Gazprom and oil pipeline monopoly […]
