Fuente: Prensa Latina / Noticias de Seguridad Informática / Rebelión 17 de diciembre de 2009 Insurgentes iraquíes, transitoriamente convertidos en hackers, usaron programas informáticos de 26 dólares para interceptar comunicaciones de aviones militares estadounidenses. La noticia acaparó titulares de la prensa norteamericana este jueves, puso a cavilar al Pentágono, y en aprieto a fabricantes de aeronaves que valen [...]

versión similar en español abajo Source: Reuters by Andy Sullivan December 19, 2009 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate approved a $636 billion military spending bill on Saturday that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and also includes money to extend jobless aid and Medicare payment rates for two months. By a vote of 88-10, the Senate approved the bill [...]

versión en español abajo Source: Rebel Reports Contrary to popular belief, the US actually has 189,000 personnel on the ground in Afghanistan right now—and that number is quickly rising. by Jeremy Scahill December 17, 2009 A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversight subcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent [...]

Source: Foreign Policy in Focus by Eric Stoner December 17, 2009 In Oslo last week, President Barack Obama ironically used his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize to deliver a lengthy defense of the “just war” theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of addressing the world’s most pressing problems. After quoting Martin Luther King Jr. [...]

Source: t r u t h o u t by Yana Kunichoff December 17, 2009 According to a new government report, more than 50 percent of the Department of Defense workforces are military contractors and the Obama administration’s troop surge in Afghanistan is set to only increase these numbers. The report, prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the [...]

Source: IPS by Gareth Porter December 16, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Barack Obama administration is refusing to acknowledge an offer by the leadership of the Taliban in early December to give “legal guarantees” that it will not allow Afghanistan to be used for attacks on other countries. The administration’s silence on the offer, despite a public statement by Secretary [...]

Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges December 14, 2009 I have spent enough time inside the American military to have tasted its dark brutality, frequent incompetence and profligate ability to waste human lives and taxpayer dollars. The deviousness and stupidity of generals, the absurdity of most war plans and the pathological addiction to violence—which is the only language most [...]

Source: The Nation by Jeremy Scahill December 10, 2009 The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has hired a private corporation to help prepare government reports for Congress about US government contracts with other corporations in Afghanistan. The massive consulting firm Deloitte and Touche was hired on a one year contract signed with the US Army’s Contracting [...]

Source: Huffington Post by Laura Bassett December 11, 2009 Major television networks continue to host retired generals as military analysts without alerting viewers to their extensive ties to defense contractors and the Pentagon. Military strategy is a frequent topic on TV in the wake of President Obama’s announcement that he will send more troops to Afghanistan now — and [...]

Source: Glenn Greenwald by Glenn Greenwald December 11, 2009 Reactions to Obama’s Nobel speech yesterday were remarkably consistent across the political spectrum, and there were two points on which virtually everyone seemed to agree:   (1) it was the most explicitly pro-war speech ever delivered by anyone while accepting the Nobel Peace Prize; and (2) it was the most [...]