Archive for the 'War' Category
What Did $19 Billion Buy?
June 28th, 2007Guess who’s training and arming the Iraqi insurgents… That’s right. Via: Washington Post: The United States has invested $19 billion to train and equip nearly 350,000 Iraqi soldiers and police since toppling Saddam Hussein, but the ability of those forces to provide security remains in doubt, according to the findings of a bipartisan congressional investigation […]
The ‘Most Severely Wounded’ American Soldier
June 25th, 2007After a couple of paragraphs, I started thinking about fates worse than death and how those are some of the only things still made in America. One wonders what the man would say to his parents if he could communicate… I know what I’d say. The incredible thing about Americans is that they almost never […]
Special Operations Prepared for Domestic Missions
June 24th, 2007Full throttle fascism. Via: Washington Post: The U.S. Northern Command, the military command responsible for “homeland defense,” has asked the Pentagon if it can establish its own special operations command for domestic missions. The request, reported in the Washington Examiner, would establish a permanent sub-command for responses to incidents of domestic terrorism as well as […]
British Military’s “Mad Max” Vehicle for Iraq and Afghanistan
June 24th, 2007Via: Daily Mail: It looks more like a vehicle from one of Mel Gibson’s Mad Max movies. But this four-ton monster truck is the British Army’s new weapon designed to take on insurgents on the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan. British-made, the Supacat Weapons Mounted Installation Kit boasts awesome firepower which will be unleashed […]
Israel Plans Attack on Gaza
June 17th, 2007Via: Times Online: ISRAEL’s new defence minister Ehud Barak is planning an attack on Gaza within weeks to crush the Hamas militants who have seized power there. According to senior Israeli military sources, the plan calls for 20,000 troops to destroy much of Hamas’s military capability in days. The raid would be triggered by Hamas […]
All Pentagon War Game Scenarios on Iraq Resulted in Disaster
June 16th, 2007Via: Times Online: General Anthony Zinni, the chief of US central command, war-gamed Iraq for more than a year before the invasion and every scenario he devised ended in a disaster, requiring many hundreds of thousands of US troops to bring it under control and remain in occupation for many years. Yet none of these […]
Africa Command: The American Military’s New Frontier Outpost
June 13th, 2007Via: Esquire: A few years ago, with little fanfare, the United States opened a base in the horn of Africa to kill or capture Al Qaeda fighters. By 2012, the Pentagon will have two dozen such forts. The story of Africa Command, the American military’s new frontier outpost.
Pentagon Confirms it Sought to Build a ‘Gay Bomb’
June 10th, 2007One for your Best-Uses-of-Taxpayer-Funds file folder. Via: cbs5.com: A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting. Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that […]
Massacres and Paramilitary Land Seizures Behind the Biofuel Revolution
June 6th, 2007Clean and green… Via: Guardian: Armed groups in Colombia are driving peasants off their land to make way for plantations of palm oil, a biofuel that is being promoted as an environmentally friendly source of energy. Surging demand for “green” fuel has prompted rightwing paramilitaries to seize swaths of territory, according to activists and farmers. […]
State Department Orders Site to Take Down Photos of $592 Million U.S. Embassy In Iraq
June 1st, 2007Winning hearts and minds, now with obscene embassy/palace. Via: ThinkProgress: On Tuesday, ThinkProgress highlighted photos of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, which is set to open in September. Projected to cost $592 million, the embassy will have a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs will total $1.2 billion a year. The complex will be […]
