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The Pentagon Creates Partnership with Apple to Develop Wearable Tech
The Pentagon Creates Partnership with Apple to Develop Wearable Tech Last week, in the post JP Morgan Hires Recently Retired U.S. General, Raymond T. Odierno, I made the following observation: How can you ensure that the interests of TBTF Wall Street mega banks and the military-intelligence-industrial complex remain aligned? Create a revolving door of course. Of course […]
Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy
Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy In the event you were becoming concerned that the U.S. government might be backing away from its longstanding policy of endless violence, militarism and bloodshed, fear not. If we know one thing for sure, it’s that defense contractors and […]
Officials: Islamic State arose from US support for al-Qaeda in Iraq
Officials: Islamic State arose from US support for al-Qaeda in Iraq A former Pentagon intelligence chief, Iraqi government sources, and a retired career US diplomat reveal US complicity in the rise of ISIS A new memoir by a former senior State Department analyst provides stunning details on how decades of support for Islamist militants linked […]
The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents”
The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents” This post is a follow up to a piece I published in June titled: New Thousand Page Pentagon War Manual Potentially Lumps Journalists in with “Unprivileged Belligerents.” Here’s an excerpt: A 1,176 page Pentagon war manual was recently released that hasn’t received the attention it deserves. The book […]
Pentagon prepares for century of climate emergencies and oil wars
Pentagon prepares for century of climate emergencies and oil wars US Army is preparing for a new era of war for oil. While energy has always played a role in military conflicts, US military experts believe the geopolitics of energy, land and water is increasingly central to who rules, or ruins, the world. Two research […]
Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World
Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015,” June 2015. http://news.usni.org/2015/07/02/document-2015-u-s-national-military-strategy The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that […]
The Pentagon’s “2015 Strategy” For Ruling the World
The Pentagon’s “2015 Strategy” For Ruling the World On Wednesday, the Pentagon released its 2015 National Military Strategy, a 24-page blueprint for ruling the world through military force. While the language in the report is subtler and less incendiary than similar documents in the past, the determination to unilaterally pursue US interests through extreme violence […]
Pentagon Brands ‘Belligerent’ Journalists As Legitimate “Enemy Combatant” Targets
Pentagon Brands ‘Belligerent’ Journalists As Legitimate “Enemy Combatant” Targets The Pentagon has released an 1,176-page book of instructions on the “The Law Of War” detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy. The manual also states that journalists can be labeled “unprivileged belligerents,” an obscure term that replaces the Bush era “unlawful enemy combatant.” As The Washington Times reports, an […]
The War Party’s Foolish Confrontation With Russia Is Heading Into A Dangerous Dead End
The War Party’s Foolish Confrontation With Russia Is Heading Into A Dangerous Dead End “U.S. Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in East Europe: A Message to Russia,” ran the headline in The New York Times. “In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting […]
Pentagon report says West, Gulf states and Turkey foresaw emergence of ‘IS’
Pentagon report says West, Gulf states and Turkey foresaw emergence of ‘IS’ A US intelligence report reveals that Western support for Syria’s rebels aided and abetted the rise of the ‘Islamic State’ – and the Pentagon won’t deny it A newly declassified Pentagon report provides startling high-level confirmation that the US-led strategy in Syria contributed directly to […]
“Strongly Dissatisfied” China Warns US “Accident” Is “Highly Likely” In South China Sea
“Strongly Dissatisfied” China Warns US “Accident” Is “Highly Likely” In South China Sea Things are escalating rapidly in the South China Sea where Beijing has figured out an innovative solution to the notion of “disputed waters.” As regular readers are by now acutely aware, China appears to have adopted the maritime boundary equivalent of the […]
Secret Pentagon report reveals West saw ISIS as strategic asset
Secret Pentagon report reveals West saw ISIS as strategic asset Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion’ A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that the Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, to topple Syrian dictator […]
This Week In Energy: Geopolitical Triggers Could Spur More Price Volatility
This Week In Energy: Geopolitical Triggers Could Spur More Price Volatility Tensions heated up in the Persian Gulf this week after Iran fired upon and seized a cargo ship near the Straits of Hormuz. Considered to be the most strategic and vital chokepoint for global oil trade, the narrow stretch of water is regularly patrolled […]
The Pentagon’s ‘Long War’ Pits NATO Against China, Russia and Iran
The Pentagon’s ‘Long War’ Pits NATO Against China, Russia and Iran Whatever happens with the nuclear negotiations this summer, and as much as Tehran wants cooperation and not confrontation, Iran is bound to remain — alongside Russia — a key US geostrategic target. As much as US President Barack Obama tried to dismiss it, the Russian sale of the S-300 missile system to Iran is a monumental game-changer. Even […]
How the Pentagon is hiding the dead
How the Pentagon is hiding the dead The secret campaign to undercount the ‘war on terror’ death toll in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Latin America In the name of ‘counting every casualty,’ the Pentagon is systematically undercounting deaths from the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘war on drugs,’ in the Middle East, Central […]
