Archive for March 16th, 2006
The U.K. will cancel a £12bn order for the Joint Strike Fighter if the U.S. “does not hand over full access to the computer software code that controls the jets.” “Open source” is the way to go, especially in the military world where the urge to install backdoors must be insurmountable. One can also draw [...]
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March 16th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
Salon has made available their entire set of 279 photographs and 19 videos from Abu Ghraib. Just one brief glimpse of the horrors that go on daily at various empire outposts. It should be clear to most that even these images are selective or cleaned up and do not expose the true scope of abuse. [...]
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March 16th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
Sploid notes that a wave of coordinated fear mongering and scare tactics is sweeping across the U.S. Far from predicting actual events, in which case it would be unlikely the state would warn anyone in advance, it shows in a very succinct way how Americans are manipulated, to an ever increasing degree, to let fear [...]
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March 16th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
The U.S. has once again started hunting down and prosecuting military deserters and resisters … from the Vietnam war. People like Ernest “Buck” McQueen. Allegedly, 8,000 U.S. soldiers have deserted the armed forces since the start of the Iraq conflict but that is still a far cry from the half a million that went AWOL [...]
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March 16th, 2006
Björn Hallberg