Showing posts with the label military-industrial complex
FBI releases 27 classified photos of 9/11 Pentagon attacks
The FBI has released previously unseen images of the Pentagon in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The batch of 27 archived images uploaded to the website, FBI Records: The Vault , show the scorched…
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against Israel military service
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews took to the streets of Jerusalem on Tuesday to protest against compulsory military service at a time of increased tensions between them and Israeli authorities. The p…
US government releases previously unseen videos of secret nuclear weapon tests
Footage of hundreds of secret nuclear tests carried out during the Cold War has been declassified by the US government for the first time and placed on YouTube. Between 1945 and 1962, the country car…
Kevin Fulton & Martin Ingram on The Alex Jones Show (9-21-2006)
Martin Ingram, co-author of "Stakeknife: Britain's secret agents in Ireland" and Kevin Fulton, author of "Unsung Hero" join Alex Jones to talk about British state involvement …
VA Now Paying Compensation To Victims of Contaminated Lejeune Water
Today the VA begins providing disability benefits to Veterans, Reservists, and National Guard members affected by the contaminants in the water supply at Camp Lejeune, NC. Disability Benefits For Vet…
Trump gives CIA power to launch drone strikes: report
The CIA has reportedly been given the power by President Trump to launch drone strikes against suspected terrorists. The new authority is a change in drone policy from the Obama administration, The W…
Fury in Cambodia as US asks to be paid back hundreds of millions in war debts
Half a century after United States B-52 bombers dropped more than 500,000 tonnes of explosives on Cambodia's countryside Washington wants the country to repay a $US500 million ($662 million) war …
This troubled, covert agency is responsible for trucking nuclear bombs across America each day
The unmarked 18-wheelers ply the nation’s interstates and two-lane highways, logging 3 million miles a year hauling the most lethal cargo there is: nuclear bombs. The covert fleet, which shuttles war…
Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles
Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea’s missile program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in their o…
U.S. Defense Spending Would Be 80 Percent of Russia’s Entire Military Budget
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT already spends $600 billion dollars a year on its military — more money than the next seven biggest spenders combined, including China and Russia. On Monday, the White House said …
The Cancer of War: U.S. Admits to Using Radioactive Munitions in Syria
Officials have confirmed that the U.S. military, despite vowing not to use depleted uranium weapons on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria, fired thousands of rounds of the munitions during two high-p…
Britain's 110 nuclear alerts are revealed: Safety watchdog makes a mockery of the MoD's claim of just 27 ‘incidents’ in 65 years
A chilling catalogue of more than 100 accidents involving Britain’s nuclear weapons reveals for the first time how often we may have come close to disaster. The shock report by an independent nuclear…
‘Blackwater Air’ Is Back, and Flying for U.S. Special Forces
A mercenary air force that became a symbol of the U.S. occupation of Iraq is back in action—this time in Central Africa, supporting a shadowy American U.S. Special Forces commando operation targeting…
AP Exclusive: DHS weighed Nat Guard for immigration roundups
The White House distanced itself Friday from a Department of Homeland Security draft proposal to use the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants, but lawmakers said the document offers ins…
Military-Grade Spy Gear Is Flooding into Local Police Departments
Major U.S. cities are spending millions of dollars on tools that track and extract data from people’s cellphones — but almost nothing on rules to guide their use. http://www.defenseone.com/technology…
Former CIA Analyst Sues Defense Department to Vindicate NSA Whistleblowers
IN 2010, THOMAS DRAKE, a former senior employee at the National Security Agency, was charged with espionage for speaking to a reporter from the Baltimore Sun about a bloated, dysfunctional intelligen…
CIA files reveal how U.S. used psychics to spy on Iran
The dozens of American diplomats taken hostage by revolutionary students who seized the U.S. embassy in Iran in 1979 may have had some secret company during their 15-month captivity: U.S. intelligenc…
Dark Shadows: Iran-Contra, Secret Wars & Covert Operations, Part 3
This is the third of a five-part series exploring the Iran-Contra Affair and its consequences. Part 1 described the Reagan Administration’s secret wars and illegal arms deals exposed in the scandal.…
Army Preps for Urban Warfare in MegaCities: “Mass Migration, Disaster and Inner-City Turmoil”
Now, a major military scholar is calling for the creation of “megacities combat units” – a proposal that is a major and drastic departure from warfare of the past, which has been designed away from c…