Posts Tagged: Surveillance

Procuring Academics for Empire: The Pentagon Minerva Research Initiative

I just came upon this article about the recruitment of social scientists to support military programs such as the Human Terrain System. >><< http://petras.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=1776&more=1&c=1 Procuring Academics for Empire: The Pentagon Minerva Research Initiative The Pentagon’s military strategists have recognized that they have suffered political losses, with strategic consequences in their recent military invasions of Iraq… Read more »

S. Korea Aegis destroyer scheduled to train at RIMPAC, related to Jeju struggle

Below is an old article about South Korea testing its Aegis destroyer in Hawai’i during the RIMPAC exercises this summer.  Bruce Gagnon wrote this about the article: This is an indication that the South Korean Navy is now being fully integrated into the command structure of the U.S. Navy and that the Aegis destroyers that… Read more »

Blackwater Secrets Exposed

Blackwater is in the news again with the release of secret tapes of Blackwater owner Erik Prince speaking candidly about the chilling details of Blackwater’s covert operations.  Democracy Now! aired these recordings today: EXCLUSIVE…Secret Recording of Erik Prince Reveals Previously Undisclosed Blackwater Ops Investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill obtains a rare audio… Read more »

U.S. Army Counterintelligence Center planned to destroy Wikileaks

With the recent release of shocking classified video footage of a U.S. helicopter gunning down civilians in Iraq, including two Reuter’s reporters, Wikileaks has gained new fame.  But the U.S. military was already trying to destroy the whistleblower website back in 2008.  Wikileaks got a copy of the SECRET counterintelligence report on Wikileaks and, well,… Read more »

U.S. approves assassination of American citizen with ties to Al Qaeda

The U.S. government has always engaged in covert assassinations of Americans, but to openly approve the military targeting of a U.S. citizen is extraordinary and frightening.  Since Al Qaeda is deemed a military threat, rather than a criminal one, anyone associated with them could theoretically become a military target.    The problem lies with the meaning… Read more »

Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretaps Were Illegal

The Naional Security Agency (NSA) has a super secure regional signals intelligence center dug in under the pineapple fields in Kunia.  The entire facility will move in with the Navy at a combined intelligence center being built in Wahiawa/Whitmore Village area.   Can you hear me now? >><< http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html?th&emc=th Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretaps Were Illegal… Read more »

U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia

http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/u-s-tightens-missile-shield-encirclement-of-china-and-russia/ March 4, 2010 U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia Rick Rozoff So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia through its relentless pursuit of global interceptor missile deployments. On January 29 the White… Read more »

Fort Worth has quietly become a hub for military intelligence

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/03/v-print/2013263/fort-worth-has-quietly-become.html Fort Worth has quietly become a hub for military intelligence Posted Wednesday, Mar. 03, 2010 By CHRIS VAUGHN cvaughn@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH — It is an unremarkable beige-brick building known by its military acronym, the JRIC. Behind several secure doors requiring top-secret clearance sit analysts who conduct counterterrorism investigations in the Philippines, analyze military buildups… Read more »

Protests start off the National Security Studies colloquium

http://www.kaleo.org/protests-start-off-the-national-security-studies-colloquium-1.2149380 Protests start off the National Security Studies colloquium By JUNGHEE LEE News Co-Editor Published: Thursday, February 11, 2010 Junghee Lee Protesters gathered infront of the Korean Studies building yesterday morning to convey their distrust with the CIA’s presence on campus. A group of about six protestors gathered together and protested against the colloquium National… Read more »

Protest at UH Challenges Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence & CIA Campus Recruitment

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/50041 Protest at the University of HI Challenges Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence & CIA Campus Recruitment 2010-02-12 04:39 By Ann Wright Hawaii activists protested on February 10, 2010, the University of Hawaii’s participation with U.S. intelligence agencies in a symposium on national security and called on students and faculty to remember the criminal… Read more »