How Israel’s “Smart” Weapons Killed a Disabled Gaza Teen
Israel’s “Smart” Weapons Kill Sabah Abu Jayab, known to her family and friends as Um Ahmad, walked through her home pointing out everything that had to be replaced after Israel’s 2014 assault on the besieged Gaza Strip. “This is all new,” Um Ahmad, a...
Israel Killing UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Workers Without Consequence
Israeli Strikes on UN Forces: A Pattern of Lethal Attacks On January 28, 2015, Israeli artillery fire struck near the South Lebanese village of Ghajar, taking the life of 36-year-old Spanish peacekeeper Francisco Javier Soria. Soria served with the United Nations...
ISIS Beheading Videos: How Propaganda Fueled Western Military Intervention
How Western Governments Used Graphic Videos to Build Support for Military Action In the fall of 2014, a wave of alleged execution videos attributed to the Islamic State (ISIS, also known as IS or ISIL) dominated global headlines. These recordings, depicting masked...
How ISIS Was Created: Covert Origins of the Islamic State
How Western-Backed Regime Change in Libya Set the Stage The militant organization known as the Islamic State, previously called Al-Qaeda in Iraq and later rebranded under its current name, represents one of the most brutal armed groups in modern history. Its members...
Private Military Contractors Conduct Warrantless Raids on US Cannabis Farms
Few developments in domestic law enforcement should alarm Americans more than the quiet emergence of private military-style contractors conducting armed raids on U.S. soil. In 2014, two largely overlooked incidents in California signaled a troubling new chapter in the...
Critical Facts All US Citizens Should Know Abut Israel & Palestine
Gaza (along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem) is occupied Palestinian territory under international law, determined by the vast majority of the world, as well as the highest court in the world, the UN’s International Court of Justice. Gaza cannot commit...
Police Militarization: 11 Alarming Facts About Armed US Law Enforcement
How America’s Police Became a Domestic Army Across the United States, local law enforcement agencies have undergone a dramatic transformation — acquiring battlefield weapons, adopting military tactics, and deploying heavily armed units against civilian...
Blackwater Threatened to Kill State Department Investigator Probing Iraq Operations
In 2007, weeks before Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Nisour Square in Baghdad, the State Department launched an investigation into the private military contractor’s operations in Iraq. The inquiry was cut short under extraordinary...
Palantir 101: InfoSec Gov Deployed Malware Explained
War For those who are completely new to the Palantir Platform or could simply use a refresher, this talk will start from scratch and provide a broad overview of Palantir’s origins and mission. A live demonstration of the product will help to familiarize...
Unidentified Mercenaries in Eastern Ukraine: Who Were the Armed Men in Donetsk?
In early 2014, as political turmoil engulfed Ukraine following the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, videos surfaced online showing unidentified armed men operating in the eastern city of Donetsk. The footage sparked heated debate about who these individuals...
Americas Clandestine War in Yemen: Drone Strikes, Special Forces, and Intelligence Operations
Deadly Attack on Yemen’s Military Headquarters In December 2013, a coordinated assault on Yemen’s Ministry of Defense compound in Sanaa killed more than 50 people, including foreign medical workers. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed...
Congress Investigates the 2011 SEAL Team 6 Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan
In 2013, families of Navy SEAL Team 6 members killed in a 2011 helicopter crash in Afghanistan succeeded in pressuring Congress to launch an official investigation into the incident. The crash, which killed 30 Americans on August 6, 2011, represented the single...
Understanding The Militarized Internet
If twitter is any gauge, a lot of people think this article in Wired about General Keith Alexander is just all kinds of kewl: General Keith Alexander, a man few even in Washington would likely recognize. Never before has anyone in America’s intelligence sphere come...
85yr old Austrian-American Describes Hitler’s Police State
“If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries. “As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80 percent of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families.
US-Israel Alliance: Obama’s “Green Light” to Israel Attack on Gaza
A short interview broadcast by CNN late last week featuring two participants – a Palestinian in Gaza and an Israeli within range of the rocket attacks – did not follow the usual script. For once, a media outlet dropped its role as gatekeeper, there to mediate and...
Tears of Gaza: The War They Don’t Show You
“Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a record — presented with minimal gloss — of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza (dubbed ‘Operation Cast Lead’) by the Israeli military. Filmed by several Palestinian...
Obama Drone Warfare: How Robotic Strikes Defined a Presidency
When President Obama first entered office, unmanned aerial strikes happened sporadically — perhaps once every couple of weeks. By 2012, these operations had become the backbone of American counterterrorism policy worldwide. The administration systematized lethal drone...
Gaza, The World’s Largest Open-Air Prison
A look at life under occupation. Gaza has the look of a Third World country, with pockets of wealth surrounded by hideous poverty. It is not, however, undeveloped. Rather it is “de-developed,” and very systematically so, to borrow the term from Sara Roy,...
Afghan Corruption and the Role of U.S. Military Contracting
A History of Blame and Deflection In September 2012, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that corruption in his government had reached a level “not ever before seen in Afghanistan.” He claimed that under the Soviet...
General Carter Ham Allegedly Relieved After Defying Benghazi Stand-Down Order
The September 11, 2012 attack on American facilities in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens, became one of the most contentious national security controversies of the Obama era. Beyond the initial debate over what triggered...
Journalist Glenn Greenwald Speech on “Humanitarian” Wars
http://youtu.be/MMirTxSlhBA Greenwald is that increasingly rare commodity in the US, a true journalist. I don’t agree with him on a lot of things, but he is definitely correct here in debunking the hogwash about “humanitarian” wars. Nobody goes to...
Romney vs Obama Drone Policy: The Bipartisan Kill Program
Romney Endorsed Obama’s Drone Strategy During the 2012 Foreign Policy Debate During the October 2012 foreign policy debate, Mitt Romney essentially gave his stamp of approval to President Obama’s use of unmanned aerial strikes. Regardless of which...
MARINE – JON MICHAEL TURNER SPEAKS THE TRUTH
Ex-Marine who threw back his medals, Jon Michael Turner, speaks the raw hard truth about merciless & indiscriminate killing PROMOTED by Staff Sgts and other Top Military Brass during modern war and middle eastern conflict....