ver también Resistir nuestra seguridad: los ojos de vidrio Counterintelligence, Cybersecurity Stressed by Walter Pincus September 16, 2009 The top U.S. intelligence official said counterintelligence and cybersecurity would be given new emphasis under a four-year strategic plan he unveiled Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told reporters that although combating extremism, issuing warnings, countering weapons proliferation and supporting [...]

Lawmakers tell Defense Secretary Gates they ‘are appalled by the Pentagon’s failure to pursue answers’ in death of Adam Hermanson. by Jeremy Scahill September 18, 2009 Congressional pressure is increasing on the Department of Defense to investigate the apparent electrocution death of Adam Hermanson, a 25 year old DoD contractor who died September 1 in a shower at [...]

by Tom Engelhardt September 17, 2009 “War is peace” was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in “Newspeak,” the language invented by George Orwell in 1948 for his dystopian novel 1984. Some 60 years later, a quarter-century after Orwell’s imagined future bit the dust, the phrase is, in a [...]

Tribal leader: 87 killed in Yemen airstrike on camp for those fleeing government-rebel war by Ahmad Al-Haj and Donna Abu-Nasr September 17, 2009 Nearly 87 civilians were killed in a strike by government warplanes that hit a camp of people fleeing fighting in northern Yemen, a tribal leader said Thursday. It was a sign of increasing bloodiness in [...]

by Mehdi Lebouachera Mehdi Lebouachera September 17, 2009 CAMP BUCCA, Iraq (AFP) – In the heat of the night of the Iraqi desert, the US military transferred the last 180 prisoners out of Camp Bucca and padlocked its largest detention centre in Iraq. High-risk prisoners were relocated from the remote jail in southernmost Iraq to Camp Cropper near [...]

Secret updates to White House challenge European and Israeli assessments. by Mark Hosenball September 16, 2009 The U.S. intelligence community is reporting to the White House that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program, two counterproliferation officials tell NEWSWEEK. U.S. agencies had previously said that Tehran halted the program in 2003. The officials, who asked for anonymity when [...]

Barack Obama anunció ayer el abandono del proyecto de Bush de construir un escudo antimisiles en Europa Central, una de las grandes apuestas militares de su predecesor en la Casa Blanca, tras revisar a la baja la amenaza iraní y formular un «nuevo enfoque» defensivo. por Gara 18 de septiembre, 2009 El presidente estadounidense, Barack Obama, declaró ayer [...]

by Peter Baker and Nicholas Kulish September 17, 2009 WASHINGTON —President Obama announced on Thursday that he will scrap former President George W. Bush’s planned missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic and instead deploy a reconfigured system aimed more at intercepting shorter-range Iranian missiles. Mr. Obama decided not to deploy a sophisticated radar system in [...]

US war on crime has nothing to do with crime One in 35 Americans are caught up in the corrections system and incarceration is on the rise. Why is this when the US crime rate has dropped so remarkably? by Andrew Oxford September 2009 The United States incarcerates more of its own citizens than any other nation. It has [...]

by Andy Worthington September 15, 2009 On Monday, one day after the New York Times and the Washington Post reported that the Obama administration was planning to introduce tribunals for the prisoners held in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Afghanistan, the reason for the specifically-timed leaks that led to the publication of the stories became clear. The [...]