Tag: Afghanistan
-
Afghan Insurgents Obtained US IED-Blocking Systems
from allgov: Warlocks, the jamming technology used by the U.S. military to thwart roadside bombs in Afghanistan, fell into the hands of the Taliban more than two years ago, according to an Army intelligence document obtained by WikiLeaks. The equipment may have been subsequently shipped to Iran where researchers tried to figure out how Warlocks…
-
Fmr Agent Robert Baer: CIA Has Become ‘An Adjunct’ To The Military
Former CIA operative Robert Baer told CNN’s John Roberts and Kiran Chetry that the CIA has become “an adjunct” to the military in Iraq and Afghanistan. This video is from CNN’s American Morning, broadcast March 16, 2010.
-
Private Contractors Tied To Effort To Track & Kill Militants
Did a Pentagon official set up his own rogue intelligence operation in Afghanistan? And did he divert cash from an open-source cultural research program to do it? The top national security story of the day in today’s New York Times raises more questions than it answers.
-
Interview w/David Wallechinsky of AllGov.com
He’s been called a ‘human encyclopedia’ by Vice Magazine. He’s written a number of books on everything from Olympic history to the worst dictators in the world. David Wallechinsky is a globetrotting historian & he’s also the editor-in-chief of AllGov.com…
-
Kucinich Forces House to Vote On Pullout From Afghanistan
In a test of congressional support for President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy, lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would direct him to pull U.S. forces out of the war.
-
Change: Obama Signs One-Year Extension of Patriot Act
President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation’s main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act. Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama’s signature Saturday.
-
obama rebrands iraq war as ‘operation new dawn’
prince of peace prize acts like changing name is ending war… from afp: President Barack Obama’s administration plans to rebrand its military operation in Iraq “Operation New Dawn,” beginning September 1, a Pentagon memorandum shows. The memo, signed by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, shows the Pentagon approving a request to switch the name of…
-
2/18 Newspurge: Get Outta Yr Bed, You Gotta Wake Up
The depressing truth about anti-depressants: No better than placebos // Onion article on financial system actually reveals the truth // Mossad hit squad stole UK ID’s to kill Hamas leader // French soldiers used as ‘nuclear guinea pigs’
-
charlie wilson, fmr texas rep & mujahedeen funder, dead at 76
from ap: Charlie Wilson, the fun-loving Texas congressman whose backroom dealmaking funneled millions of dollars in weapons to Afghanistan, allowing the country’s underdog mujahedeen rebels to beat back the mighty Soviet Red Army, died Wednesday. He was 76. Wilson died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after having difficulty breathing after attending a meeting in the eastern…
-
US military weapons inscribed with secret ‘jesus’ bible codes
weapons maker says it has ‘always’ added bible references from abcnews: Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the U.S. military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in…
-
US waves white flag in disastrous ‘war on drugs’
after 40yrs, washington is quietly giving up on a futile battle that has spread corruption & destroyed thousands of lives from independent: After 40 years of defeat and failure, America’s “war on drugs” is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal. US agents are being…
-
corbett report: afghanistan is not the right war
from corbett report: If history has taught us anything, it is that we need to beware those populist politicians who claim to be men of peace by nature but men of war by necessity. The most violent wars this planet has ever seen, the most brutal regimes that have ever sought to repress their own…
-
obama signs $636.3b defense-spending bill
from bloomberg: President Obama signed into law legislation that provides $636.3 billion for the U.S. military in fiscal 2010, including $128.3 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House announced today. About $65 billion of the war funding is for operations in Afghanistan. The administration says it will need about $30 billion…
-
nbc continues to highlight dyncorp gen. barry mccaffrey
from allgov: Since NBC doesn’t bother to point out the conflicts of interest held by oft-used military analyst Barry McCaffrey, Huffington Post and others have. McCaffrey has appeared on the network’s cable subsidiary, MSNBC, no less than 10 times in the past month to talk about the importance of staying in Afghanistan and training local…
-
obama praises & wages war while accepting peace prize
in other news, freedom is slavery & ignorance is strength… from latimes: President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize [in Oslo] today, acknowledging the irony of winning it as a wartime president and calling his own accomplishments “slight” in comparison to past winners. But in his speech to the Nobel Committee, Obama spoke of the…