Will the nation’s vaunted military-industrial complex survive what some have billed as the “disaster” of mandatory sequestration cuts? Yes, and likely stronger than before. The self-imposed “sequester” wrought by the failure of Congress to reach a budget deal are scheduled to deliver more than $1 trillion in government spending cuts within weeks. Despite promises from [...]
HAS THE WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR ARCTIC DRILLING BEEN REALIZED IN ALASKA? Warnings from scientists and environmental activists that unchecked oil drilling in the Arctic could lead to a potential disaster may have come to some semblance of fruition after a massive Shell Oil rig became grounded in a remote section of the pristine [...]
TINY “SUICIDE DRONES” COULD ALLOW THE UNITED STATES TO LAUNCH “PRECISION” ASSASSINATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. 11 years after the attacks of September 11, the arsenal of weaponry that the “war on terror” has justified continues to grow along with the global reach of U.S military and intelligence operations. Drone strikes have become the [...]
BETTER WATCH OUT, BETTER NOT SHOUT: AUSTERITY, MILITARISM AND AN ENHANCED POLICE STATE ARE COMING TO TOWN! By Christmas of this year, either Obama or Romney will be elected President for the next four years. If Romney wins, the country is clearly in for a strong turn to the right on these matters. But [...]
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS WILL NOW LITERALLY POLICE THE WORLD. While military police units have been a part of the United States armed forces and specifically the Marine Corps for decades, a new breed of “MP’s” is being trained by the military for missions that go well beyond their traditional role. Previously used as [...]
TERRORISTS PLAYING AROUND THE POWDER KEG IN THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIA. (Asia Times) This is the view of Victor Kotsev in noting that the “fog of war” has descended on the Middle East with the pair of bombings of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria and members of the Assad government in Damascus. While [...]
AS U.S. DE-ESCALATES SOME MILITARY OPERATIONS, DEMAND FOR PREDATOR DRONES SLACKENS; BUT DRONE INDUSTRY NEED NOT DESPAIR: THESE STATE OF THE ART MILITARY GOODIES ARE INCREASINGLY BEING PEDDLED AROUND THE WORLD. (The International News) Up to now, the U.S. has confined its sharing of drones and drone technology and products largely to a few favored allies. “This [...]
` U.S. DEFENSE CONTRACTORS CAN SEE THEIR FUTURE, AND THAT FUTURE IS FILLED WITH DRONES. (Los Angeles Times) An outgrowth of the United States military and intelligence community’s increasing reliance on unmanned aerial drones is the huge chunk of business now made up by drone aircraft for America defense contractors. Foreign nations see what America [...]
THE FIRST CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT RELATING TO THE BP GULF OIL SPILL DISASTER ARE BROUGHT AGAINST…A LOW-LEVEL ENGINEER?!? (Pro Publica) The good news? After more than two years, the Justice Department has finally filed the first set of criminal charges in BP’s catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oli spill, the worst single [...]
ROBERT BALES SUFFERED FROM PTSD? HOW ABOUT THE AFGHAN CIVILIANS AMONG WHOM HE FOUND HIS MASSACRE VICTIMS? (In These Times) While the “collateral damage” to civilians of the Afghan conflict is usually measured (or estimated) in the loss of human lives, the damage may go much deeper than that. A report of the World Health [...]
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