Bold Alligator: Massive 11-Nation Military Drill Aimed At Fending Off Iran In The Straits of Hormuz February 8, 2012 Print Version Source: Stratrisks/BBC After a decade spent mostly fighting in deserts and mountain regions, the US military and its allies have been gearing up for future challenges by practising assaults on coastal areas. A mythical [...]
US seeking to ‘close down’ Iran central bank January 12, 2012 Print Version Source: Breitbart The latest round of American sanctions are aimed at shutting down Iran’s central bank,a senior US official said Thursday, spelling out that intention directly for the first time. “We do need to close down the Central Bank of Iran (CBI),” [...]
The US-Iran economic war January 7, 2012 Print Version By Pepe Escobar Asia Times NEW YORK – Here’s a crash course on how to further wreck the global economy. A key amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act signed by United States President Barack Obama on the last day of 2011 – when no [...]
Jewish groups get most money from federal security grants January 2, 2012 Print Version Source: STL Today A week after a man killed a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 2009, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cited the murder as proof that nonprofit institutions were at risk of attack [...]
Merry Monsanto — Military Industrial Agriculture December 24, 2011 Print Version Owen Myles, Contributing Writer Activist Post Today I read an article on slashdot titled “New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops“. Before you navigate away from this article, please be assured they were not citing the National Enquirer. The study was conducted in France, [...]
Boots On The Ground: U.S. Special Forces Join Hunt for Ugandan Rebels [Translate] S ource: Ghana MMA US special forces have set up a base in the Central African Republic as part of their regional hunt for fighters from the Ugandan-born Lord’s Resistance Army group, military sources said Monday. “The deployment of this contingent, the [...]
America`s Global Warfare. Military Redeployment to Asia and The Pacific Threatens China December 20, 2011 Print Version By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research The 2000 Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which was the backbone of the NeoCon’s agenda, was predicated on “waging a war without borders”. The PNAC’s declared objectives were to “fight and [...]
Military Contractors Funded Detention Bill December 18, 2011 Print Version Source: Voice Of Detroit NDAA 2012 codifies Commander in Chief President Obama, DHS, military police waging war against American internet users, independent reporters, whistleblowers of high-level corruption The National Defense Authorization Bill 2012 (NDAA FY2012) passed in the House yesterday, contains language allowing the Pentagon to [...]
U.S. Abandons Toxic Burn Pits as it Withdraws from Iraq and Afghanistan by Matthew J. Nasuti American troops are among the victims of the Pentagon’s “pollute & run” policy December 16, 2011 U.S. service members and their Iraqi and Afghan allies have a common enemy. It is not Iran, the Taliban or al-Qaeda, but the [...]
Iraqi Deputy PM: Maliki Becoming a ‘Dictator’ December 14, 2011 Print Version Source: Antiwar In an unusually frank interview with CNN today, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq warned that the nation is in dire straits politically, and that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is rapidly emerging as a dictator. “The political process is going [...]
New Army Jobs: Internment / Resettlement Specialist (31E) 12-08-2011 • http://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. I/R Specialists provide rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to U.S. military prisoners within a confinement or correctional facility; conduct inspections; prepare written reports; [...]
Martial Domestic Policing: The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US December 5, 2011 Print Version Source: StratRisks Benjamin Carlson at The Daily reports on a little known endeavor called the “1033 Program” that gave more than $500 million of military gear to US police in 2011 alone. 1033 [...]
X-37B Spacecraft: “It’s Still Up There” December 1st, 2011 Via: MSNBC: The secretive X-37B robotic space plane is about to set its own space-endurance record on a hush-hush project operated by the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The craft, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle-2, was boosted into Earth orbit atop an Atlas [...]
Turning Patrolmen Into Soldiers: How Did We Let This Happen? November 28, 2011 Print Version By James Fallows - The Atlantic I’m chagrined not to have noted a great Atlantic item from two weeks ago, “How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police.” It covers systematically much of the terrain I’ve been going into episodically. [...]
A New, Permanent Presence of U.S. Troops on Australian Soil November 12th, 2011 Via: ABC News: Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has refused to give details of the extra military ties expected to be announced when US president Barack Obama visits Darwin next week. Media reports suggest Mr Obama will announce the US will begin rotating [...]
