There is now widespread speculation over what the US government is preparing for and why they would suddenly need these emergency capabilities. The press release is eerie enough.
Friends of Liberty - KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co, (HAL), said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland [...]
Continue Reading January 31st, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Why not have someone else die in your stead or just set up a sepoy army? And without being subject to all those human rights standards. Apparently in the future, the US would have us fight each other instead of the real enemy.
WAPO - Congress has granted unusual authority for the Pentagon to spend as [...]
Continue Reading January 30th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
This week’s “revelation” of a creative touch by the US military involves hostage taking. Probably with some sexual assault on the side. New and shiny word for this: “leveraging.” In the dustbin: “war crimes of collective punishment and hostage taking.”
This was first reported two years ago and indeed admitted to by a US commander back [...]
Continue Reading January 30th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Birds of feather …
HRW - Rice Must Explain Repressive UN Ban on LGBT Rights Groups - (Washington, D.C., January 25, 2006) In a reversal of policy, the United States on Monday backed an Iranian initiative to deny United Nations consultative status to organizations working to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) [...]
Continue Reading January 30th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
The US seems quite at odds with how democracy really works. At least when you can’t engineer an election or commit voter fraud. I guess what Palestine really needs is electronic voting run by the same oligarchy that runs the US voting system.
Also, it seems quite appropriate from their point of view apparently to threaten [...]
Continue Reading January 30th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Apparently there are consequences even for the seemingly invincible. Like in the militarized US, people come second, ironically the same people whom the state claims to protect. An accentuated and narrow focus on security (one of the pillars of militarization) combined with a right-wing economic policy has been devastating.
And poverty statistics in 2000 were staggeringly [...]
Continue Reading January 28th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
The US uses its resources to conduct global psyops.
BBC - A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military’s plans for “information operations” - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
Bloggers beware.
Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the [...]
Continue Reading January 28th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
The US is doing what it does best, meddling in the affairs of others. Hopefully there will be something substantial to come from this. Something that will stick.
Reuters - Venezuela said on Friday authorities had concrete evidence that U.S. Embassy staff were involved with a group of Venezuelan military officers accused of passing state secrets [...]
Continue Reading January 27th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Shocking new revelations about the consequences of the widespread use of Depleted Uranium. Part of the “smog of war” as it were.
SFBayView - “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s [...]
Continue Reading January 24th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
I got a rather lengthy comment here that I thought I would repost in its entirety below.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Who will defend the utterly innocent, the infants and their mothers, from criminal war? Why won’t Anglo-American and Australian mainstream media report Coalition war crimes against infants and their mothers? Why won’t the ICC act against the egregious [...]
Continue Reading January 24th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
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