To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
Posts Tagged ‘Defense Department’
The ‘Failed State’ Boogeyman
Posted: 19 July 2010 by Editors in Political Science, SomaliaTags: AFRICOM, Ahmed Hassan, Al Shabaab, AMISOM, anarchism, anarchy, AQN ExOrd, Awil Salah Osman, Bush Administration, CENTCOM, child soldiers, CIA, civilian casualties, Clinton Administration, covert operations, Defense Department, Donald Rumsfeld, Ethiopia, failed state, failed states index, Fareed Zakaria, fascism, Greg Jaffe, Horn of Africa, human rights, humanitarian aid, humanitarian crisis, Jeffrey Gettleman, Jeremy Scahill, Kampala, Karen DeYoung, Lord’s Resistance Army, Mark Fineman, military welfare, Mogadishu, Mohamed Abdi Godane, Mohamed Siad Barre, Newspeak, oil, Paul Wolfowitz, Pentagon, SOF, Somalia, Special Ops, Stefan Molyneux, Stephen Cambone, Suzanne Goldberg, terrorism, Uganda, UN, UN Security Council, UNSC, USAID, War, War on Terror, Xan Rice
Highlighting U.S. intervention in the further destruction of Somalia and as Ugandans mourn a terrorist attack from Somali militants and Fareed Zakaria noting the non-threat of ‘failed states’ and the imminent blowback induced by the failed missions of nation building.
Report: DIA Quietly Reviving & Renaming ‘Disestablished’ Domestic Datamining, Surveillance Unit
Posted: 16 June 2010 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: CI, counterterrorism, DCHC, Defense Department, DHS, DIA, DoD, domestic surveillance, eGuardian, FBI, Federal Register, FICOR, Fourth Amendment, HUMINT, James Clapper, Jeff Stein, Joby Warrick, libertarian, military intelligence, Newspeak, NSA, Obama Administration, Petagon, Privacy Act of 1974, privacy rights, Robert Gates, US, War on Terror, warrantless wiretapping program
The Pentagon’s new intelligence unit’s purpose could raise the valid question of how far the U.S. is moving toward militarized domestic databasing, but its resemblance to a ‘disestablished’ program used to spy on peace activists can reasonably confirm the program was never halted.
Report: Wikileaks Founder ‘Hunted by the Pentagon’
Posted: 11 June 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Afghanistan, AntiWar radio, Bradley Manning, Bush Administration, Collateral Murder, Daniel Ellsburg, Defense Department, Dylan Ratigan, fascism, Garani Massacre, government transparency, Granai Massacre, Iraq War, Julian Assange, Kevin Poulson, Kim Zetter, libertarian, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Pentagon, Philip Shenon, Scott Horton, torture, US, US Army, US military, Vietnam War, West Baghdad Massacre, whistleblowers, Wikileaks
Amidst “security concerns”, the heroic Julian Assange has canceled a scheduled trip to speak today in Las Vegas after appearing remotely to a New York scheduled appearance, earlier in the week. U.S. officials confirm the Defense Department is scrambling to discover his whereabouts. Daniel Ellsburg and Philip Shenon discussed this today at “The Dylan Ratigan Show” on MSNBC (10:58):
BP Still Fuels Pentagon For Billions and Iraq Oil
Posted: 9 June 2010 by Sayyid in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: ACORN, BP, BP Gulf oil spill, corporatism, CPC, Dan Froomkin, Deepwater Horizon, Defense Department, fascism, Flow Rate Technical Group, Ira Leifer, Jeremy Scahill, Majnoon, Middle East, military industrial complex, Newspeak, no-bid contracts, Obama Administration, Pentagon, Royal Dutch Shell, Rumaila, Tony Hayward, US, War, War on Terror
BP in bed with the perpetual war machine, benefiting far past its $2bn annual contract with the Pentagon.
Upcoming WikiLeaks Video: Obama’s Warplanes Massacre Up to 147 Afghan Civilians
Posted: 12 April 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak WarTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, AntiWar.com, civilian casualties, David Petraeus, Defense Department, Farah Massacre, fascism, Garani Massacre, Granai Massacre, Guy Smallman, human rights, ICRC, international law, Jason Ditz, Jeremy Scahill, Julian Assange, Nancy Youssef, New Baghdad Massacre, Newspeak, Obama, Pentagon, Philip Alston, Red Cross, Robert Gates, Taliban, terrorism, UN, US, War, War on Terror, Wikileaks
Video report provided by RAWA the day of the Granai Massacre, of which WikiLeaks reportedly will release classified footage. The U.S government has always reported 26 civilians were killed though, investigations by rights groups have said more than 90 children alone were killed in the airstrike. The government has also claimed that the Taliban was responsible for a bulk of the casualties, though civilians claim the Taliban had left well before the U.S. warplanes rained bombs on their village through the middle of the night. (2:08):
Indiscriminate Killing is ‘Standard Operating Procedure’
Posted: 6 April 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, Amy Goodman, Defense Department, Democracy Now, DN, Glenn Greenwald, human rights, international law, Iraq War, Julian Assange, media, Namir Noor-Eldeen, New Baghdad Massacre, Newspeak, night raids, Obama, Obama Administration, Pentagon, propganda, Reuters, Robert Fisk, Robert Gates, Rules of Engagement, Saeed Chmagh, standard operating procedure, Stanley McChrytal, US, US Army, War, War on Terror, Wikileaks
Glenn Greenwald and Julian Assange set the record straight on frequent misreporting of the discovery of U.S. military atrocities.
Little Alex in Wonderland 