Bruce Gagnon alerted us to an article in the Jamaica Plan Gazette about secret training activities conducted by U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in a Boston neighborhood: U.S. military commandos practiced raids in the shuttered Agassiz Elementary School last month, including a nighttime helicopter landing on the school’s roof, the Gazette has learned. The elite… Read more »
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Rethink U.S. missile defenses in Pacific instead of pushing for Jeju naval base
On NYT.com: Letters to the International Herald Tribune U.S. Defenses in the Pacific Published: August 10, 2011 Regarding Christine Ahn’s article “Unwanted missiles for a Korean island” (Views, Aug. 6): China’s objection to being surrounded by the U.S. Asia-Pacific missile defense system — set to be reinforced by a naval base on Jeju Island —… Read more »
DARPA loses a hypersonic aircraft over the Pacific
Bloomberg reports: A Pentagon agency reported losing contact with an unmanned hypersonic aircraft over the Pacific Ocean less than an hour after launch today. The experimental Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, or HTV-2, lifted off today in a Minotaur IV rocket made by Orbital Sciences Corp. at 7:45 a.m. local time from Vandenberg Air Force… Read more »
Stop the helicopter training on Mauna Kea
The Honolulu Star Advertiser article “Delay in copter-training permit will cost $8 million, Army says” talks about the environmental assessment for army High-Altitude Mountainous Environment Training. (HAMET) for helicopters. But why is it assumed that the army should naturally be allowed to encroach into ecologically and culturally sensitive areas on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa… Read more »
Taxpayers Stuck With Unsold Ferries in Default
Bloomberg published an article about the wasteful Maritime Administration (MARAD) loan guarantee program, which became the reluctant owner of two high-speed ferry ships after the Hawaii Superferry went bankrupt in 2009: Two passenger ferries sit at a dock in Norfolk, Virginia, waiting for someone to take them off the government’s hands. The U.S. Maritime Administration… Read more »
“What you haven’t heard about APEC” now streaming online
Watch the streaming video of the recent First Friday television program “What you haven’t heard about APEC”. Victor Menotti, Executive Director of the International Forum on Globalization joined Jonathan Osorio and host Manu Kaiama on the August 5, 2011 First Friday Olelo show to discuss what the upcoming APEC meeting is about and why it… Read more »
Kulani prison may reopen
The Hawaii Tribune Herald reports that the state is considering reopening the Kulani prison, which was closed and converted into a military school. Advocates of prison reform have called for the reopening of Kulani, which was once the most successful sex offender treatment program in Hawai’i: Closed nearly two years ago to save money, Hawaii… Read more »
Air Force space war facility breaks ground in Lualualei
The Air Force recently broke ground on a new radar facility at Lualualei, part of its global RAIDRS system. It is another link in the space war network. http://www.hookelenews.com/air-force-space-command-breaks-ground-on-raidrs-program/ Air Force Space Command breaks ground on RAIDRS program Ho’okele Staff | Aug 05, 2011 Capt. Lawrence Scruggs, chief staff officer of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam;… Read more »
The US military’s secret military
In the wake of the recent attack on a U.S. special forces helicopter that killed 30 U.S. troops including members of SEAL Team 6 and a Maui soldier, journalist Nick Turse published an article about the rise of special forces within the U.S. military and their deployment around the world: Somewhere on this planet a… Read more »
Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
One forgotten uprising of the ‘Arab Spring’ took place in tiny Bahrain. I have posted articles on this site about the protests in Bahrain and why it matters. Bahrain is in the backyard of Saudi Arabia. It is also the location of the U.S. 5th Fleet. The U.S. and western countries turned a blind eye… Read more »
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