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 [...]
Congress Welcomes Drones Into American Skies ASAP February 5, 2012 Print Version By Michael Edwards Activist Post The stage has already been set and played upon for divisions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to patrol and strike undeclared war zones abroad. Even though lip service has been paid to express minor outrage over villages bombed [...]
Inattention to Civilian Deaths in America’s Wars February 5, 2012 Print Version Source: Washington Post Source: Washington Post Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars? This inattention to civilian deaths in America’s wars isn’t unique to Iraq. There’s little evidence that the American public gives much thought to the people who live [...]
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FL Police roll out video surveillance truck called ‘The Peacemaker’… January 30, 2012 Print Version Source: Sun Sentinel Tania Ouaknine is convinced the police are watching her. She’s not paranoid — it says as much on the red sign painted along the side on the hulking armored truck that’s been parked in front of her [...]
Illinois Semi Automatic Firearm Owners: Be Aware of HB1294 January 27th, 2012 If you bother to read the full text of the legislation, you’ll find that the definition of “assault weapons” is very broad and covers a lot of rifles, handguns and shotguns. Via: Illinois General Assembly: Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Criminal Code [...]
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Is The NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over The City? Evidence Points To Yes January 24, 2012 Print Version Source: CBS NewYork They’re used in war zones for surveillance and military strikes. But are there plans to deploy drones in the Big Apple to keep an eye on New Yorkers? More and more people believe it’s [...]
Protesting Internet Censorship by Stephen Lendman January 19, 2012 On May 12, 2011, Senator Patrick Leahy (D. VT) introduced “S. 968: Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PROTECT IP).” Referred to the Judiciary Committee, May 26 hearings were held. Debate’s scheduled for next week. On [...]
Rights Groups’ Report: NATO Committed War Crimes in Libya January 20, 2012 Print Version Source: Anti-War A new report has been released by three Middle Eastern human rights groups to detail the results of a “fact-finding mission” to post-Gadhafi Libya. The report was unique in looking not only at human rights violations by the [...]
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TSA Admits Wrongdoing in Cases of Two Elderly Woman Who Claim They Were Strip-Searched January 19th, 2012 Via: New York Daily News: In an about-face, the feds have admitted wrongdoing in the cases of two elderly women who say they were strip-searched at Kennedy Airport by overzealous screeners. Federal officials had initially insisted that [...]
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NYPD developing portable body scanner for detecting concealed weapons January 18, 2012 Print Version Source: Gizmag The NYPD is developing a new device that can detect whether a perp is carrying heat without frisking him, Commissioner Ray Kelly announced today. The large mechanism uses infrared rays to scan a “form of radiation emitted from the [...]
Obama czar proposed government should ‘infiltrate’ social network sites, chat rooms, message boards. January 13, 2012 Print Version By Arron Klein Just prior to his appointment as President Obama’s so-called regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein wrote a lengthy academic paper suggesting the government should “infiltrate” social network websites, chat rooms and message boards. Such “cognitive [...]
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),” [...]
“Close Guantánamo” Campaign and Website Launches: Retired Military Personnel, Lawyers Call for the Closure of Guantánamo After 10 Years Andy Worthington January 11, 2012 Yesterday, at “Guantánamo Forever?” an event at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C., attorney Tom Wilner and journalist Andy Worthington launched “Close Guantánamo,” a new campaign and website designed to [...]
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Homeland Security Watches Twitter, Social Media, Blogs January 12th, 2012 Cryptogon readers yawn even more deeply than usual… Via: Reuters: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a [...]
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 [...]
