War, Intelligence, & Terrorism
Department of Defense | Servicemembers will still be able to receive hardship duty pay, hostile fire/imminent danger pay and other incidental expenses related to their deployment with the transition to Operation New Dawn.
PBS | Opened in 2007 by the Veterans Administration, the veterans crisis hotline the first of its kind in the country. The office received 10,000 calls in 2007, but the number had increased to 70,000 in 2008, and in 2009, it was 120,000.
Digital Journal | The mainstream media and the U.S. administration are claiming the war in Iraq has ended as 50,000 combat troops have left the region. However, Republican Congressman Ron Paul says it's not the end but rather an escalation.
New World Order Report | After the first World Trade Center tower is hit, Barry Jennings, a City Housing Authority worker, and Michael Hess, New York’s corporation counsel, head up to the emergency command center of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM), which is on the 23rd floor of W...
Tech Eye | A British codebreaker, who was found mysteriously dead in his flat, worked with the National Security Agency (NSA) and British intelligence to intercept e-mail messages that helped convict would-be bombers in the UK.
Raw Story | Grappling with matters of law and policy governing the United States military's cyber-warfare capabilities, Pentagon planners are eying ways of making preemptive strikes across the Internet part of America's toolbox.
Reuters | The U.S. government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring the whole southwest border with Mexico from September 1, as it ramps up border security in this election year, a top official said on Monday.
Wake Up From Your Slumber | Its amazing how fast the head of IASPS (The Israeli Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies) got this out on the day of the attack on 9-11. We did not even know at this point who had done the attack.
CNN | The whistle-blower website WikiLeaks on Wednesday posted what it said was an internal CIA report into the perception that the United States exports terrorism, but one U.S. official said it does not divulge spectacular developments.
Telegraph | The man, named locally as Gareth Williams, is understood to have been employed as a communications worker at GCHQ, the Government’s “listening post” in Cheltenham, Glos. Mr Williams, who was in his thirties, was on secondment at the headquarters of MI6, the Secret In...
Counter Currents | Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq.
BBC | Nearly 60 years ago, a French town was hit by a sudden outbreak of hallucinations, which left five people dead and many seriously ill. For years it was blamed on bread contaminated with a psychedelic fungus - but that theory is now being challenged.
Sydney Morning Herald | The newspaper said the contractors would be deployed to defend five fortified compounds that will be left behind as US combat forces exit Iraq and the US mission switches from a military-led to a civilian-headed operation.
Irish Central | Michael Dwyer, a 24-year-old man from Tipperary, was one of the three men shot in Santa Cruz in April 2009 over an alleged plot to assassinate president Evo Morales. The other two men killed were Romanian national Magyarosi Arpak and Hungarian Eduardo Rozsa Flores, who is ...
Patriot Forums | After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, Barack Obama went to work for a firm called Business International Corporation (BIC), a firm that was linked to economic intelligence gathering for the CIA.
Telegraph | The series of mysterious explosions began at the end of July when the state-owned Tehran Times reported that a pipeline carrying gas from Iran to Turkey had exploded near the eastern Turkish town of Dogubayazit. Iranian officials blamed the blast on Kurdish rebels.
Loonwatch | CNN recently published an article entitled Study: Threat of Muslim-American terrorism in U.S. exaggerated; according to a study released by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “the terrorist threat posed by radicalized Muslim-Americans has been exagg...
Common Dreams | The CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison. Discovered under a desk, the recordings could provide an unparalleled look at how foreign governments aided the U.S. in holding and questioning suspected terrorists.
Privacy Lover | The domain name “truecrypt.org” was originally registered to a false address (“NAVAS Station, Antarctica”), and was later concealed behind a Network Solutions private registration. The TrueCrypt developers used the aliases “ennead” and “syncon”, but later replaced all refer...
Associated Press | What Zoltan Pfeiffer, a top political figure opposed to Soviet occupation, his wife and 5-year-old daughter did not know as they were whisked out of Hungary in 1947 was that their driver, James McCargar, was a covert agent for one of America's most secretive espionage agencie...
Xinhua Net | "The trucks were sent from a state-owned factory, Rajasthan Explosives and Chemicals Limited, in Dholpur to a private company called Ganesh Explosives in the state's Sagar district. But it never reached there," the official said.
Reuters | Salim Hamdan's lawyer said in opening statements that the Yemeni, held for nearly seven years before his trial, was just a paid employee of the fugitive al Qaeda leader, a driver in the motor pool who never joined the militant group or plotted attacks on America.
Truth Out | From early 1940 to 1953, Dr. Lauretta Bender, a highly respected child neuropsychiatrist practicing at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, experimented extensively with electroshock therapy on children who had been diagnosed with "autistic schizophrenia."
Counterpunch | Army Reserve members facing imminent deployment to Afghanistan are publicly charging that their company is not properly trained or mentally fit for battle. Several members of the Indiana-based 656th Transportation Company, which is due to activate August 22nd, are requesting a Con...
BBC | Noshir Gowadia, who helped design the propulsion system for the B-2 bomber, was found guilty on multiple counts - including conspiracy and money laundering.
Wikipedia | Some of the issues under debate include whether the Bush administration or military knew about the threat of planes being used as missiles; how much the intelligence agencies knew about al-Qaeda activities inside the United States; whether the put options placed on United Airlines and...
Wikipedia | On September 11, 2001, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was involved in an ongoing operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to northwestern North America. The US Military and NORAD had also planned to conduct several military exercises and a drill was b...
CNS News | For the 558 U.S. soldiers who have died so far on Obama’s watch, 513 (about 92 percent) were killed in combat. Those 513 combat-related deaths on Obama’s watch account for more than half of the 963 combat deaths that have taken place since the war began in October 2001.
New Zealand Herald | When Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBC's Meet The Press show whether the United States has a military plan for an attack on Iran, he replied simply: "We do".
Wired | There was a time, just a few months ago, when the Pentagon appeared to be growing comfortable with the emerging digital media landscape. Troops were free to blog and tweet, as long as they used their heads and didn’t disclose secrets.
What Really Happened | This is but one horrific example of the tactics used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to stifle legitimate dissent and violate the civil rights of political groups that the administration dislikes.
The Populist | According to a Wall Street Journal report, U.S. Companies transferred funds to the assassins responsible for killing a senior Hamas leader. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead on Jan. 19 in a Dubai hotel room. He had been drugged, then suffocated.
Diary Dig | Listing 10 of 237 incidents, to see all 237 incidents, follow the link in the article
Serendipity | According to Alfred W. McCoy in The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, CIA arms, money, and disinformation enabled Corsican criminal syndicates in Marseille to wrestle control of labor unions from the Communist Party.
Mmgei Online | But controversy has continued to swirl over allegations of US government responsibility, as the reception for Raoul Peck's acclaimed film, "Lumumba," demonstrated. After all, the US had at least as much, if not more, influence in the Congolese capital as Belgium
Daily Mail | It was a late-morning phone call from a concerned wife on January 20 this year that first alerted the Dubai police to the case of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. She had been unable to reach her husband, who was travelling in Dubai on business.
Wall Street Journal | According to earlier unconfirmed reports, Poland hosted a secret CIA prison in 2002-2005, during the presidency of Aleksander Kwasniewski and the government run by Leszek Miller, both leaders of the left-leaning Democratic Left Alliance.
Opinion Maker | Press clips gathered by the CIA and discovered in the National Archives’ stored CIA files point to an agency keenly interested in any leaks about the highly-classified CIA-Mossad program to establish Osama Bin Laden and the most radical elements of the Afghan Mujahidin as th...
Washington Post | The disclosure of tens of thousands of classified reports on the Afghan war last week by WikiLeaks has been compared, rightly or wrongly, to the release in 1971 of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
Guardian | The M Star was carrying around 2.3m barrels of crude in waters off Oman when the incident occurred just after midnight. One crew member was injured and the ship was heading for port to assess the damage. No oil leaked, according to Mitsui OSK Lines.
ABC | "The Australians have changed their tactics, they were going on missions alone. The Australians did not know about the Afghan traditions. Now we work together," he said. "For the last six to eight months I have given them my soldiers. Since then there hasn't been any problems in the w...
CBS News | Hundreds of Afghan civilians who worked as informants for the U.S. military have been put at risk by WikiLeaks' publication of more than 90,000 classified intelligence reports which name and in many cases locate the individuals, The Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
From 911 Blogger | In November 2009, Wikileaks released "half a million US national text pager intercepts" covering a "24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington." This is all commendable. However, given Mr. Assange's rather curious disposition towar...
CS Monitor | Pakistan, a country awash in conspiracy theories, is already buzzing with rumors that the US orchestrated the WikiLeaks exposé to undermine Pakistan and pave the way for military intervention here. Gul himself warns that any military intervention in Pakistan will send the country i...
CBC | The report says that at 4:14 GMT on Sept. 3, 2006, fire, including rocket-propelled grenades, was coming from a building in Afghanistan. Fire was returned and a bomb was dropped on the building, heavily damaging it to the point that only four sections were left standing.
Guardian | US intelligence records reveal civilian killings, 'friendly fire' deaths and shadowy special force. 16,000 improvised explosive devices are recorded in...
David Rothscum Reports | Now that the horrors of Depleted Uranium are being revealed to the world, we can expect for apologists to begin moving into the next phase of damage control within the coming months. It will likely be claimed that the depopulation of much of the Middle East was an unfort...
Guardian | Scene of the crime: A neighbour returns to the house where he found the still-smoking body of 14-year-old Abeer, along with those of her parents and younger sister. Photograph: AP Photo/Ali al-Mahmouri
Veteran's Today | The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption.
BBC | The Scottish first minister has called on the UK and US governments to publish all of their documents relating to the release of the Lockerbie bomber. The Sunday Times claimed to have seen a letter from the US administration to the Scottish government before the release of Abdelbaset...