18 September 2021 — Keep Space for Peace
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Category: War
Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The story they want us to forget
5 August 2021 — Space4Peace
The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the barren plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto (day of the dead).
Why Hypersonic Missiles Are Real Game Changers – by Gordog
2 August 2021 — Origin: Moon of Alabama
A Technical Look at the Science Behind the Headlines
by Gordog
The Americans are now crying ‘uncle’ about Russia’s hypersonic weapons. After the most recent flight test of the scramjet-powered Zircon cruise missile, the Washington Post on July 11 carried a Nato statement of complaint:
“Russia’s new hypersonic missiles are highly destabilizing and pose significant risks to security and stability across the Euro-Atlantic area,” the statement said.
Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience
27 July 021 — MintPress News
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced today to 45 months in prison.
Technology and the future of UK Foreign Policy – Our submission to the Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry
23 June 2021 — Drone Wars
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In a timely and welcome move, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee has recently launched an investigation into ‘Tech and the future of UK foreign policy‘. Recognising that new and emerging technologies are fundamentally altering the nature of international relations and the rapidly growing influence of private technology companies, the Committee’s inquiry intends to focus on how the government, and particularly the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) should respond to the opportunities and challenges presented by new technologies.
Germany marks Barbarossa anniversary by deploying warplanes to Russia’s borders, singing birthday song for Hitler
19 June 2021 — Anti-Bellum
Only three days before the 80th anniversary of the German-led Operation Barbarossa invasion of Soviet Russia on June 22, 1941, NATO reports that fifteen German warplanes flew near Russia’s northwest border for four days this month, the 14th-17th.
NATO Proclamation at Annual Summit Threatens the Peace
17 June 2021 — CovertAction Magazine
By John Quigley
NATO headquarters in Brussels. [Source: americansecurityproject.org]
Space Attacks and Cyber Attacks Could Now Trigger Military Intervention Under Article 5 of the NATO Treaty
The NATO proclamation—promoted at its annual summit this week—that a cyber attack could trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty heightens the risk of military confrontation with Russia or China.
US Marine Corps Rebuilt to Confront China
17 June 2021 — Land Destroyer
June 17, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO) – The US Marine Corps has after nearly a century of integrating tanks into its fighting forces, abandoned armored warfare in favor of missiles and drones to “confront China” in the Indo-Pacific region.
MoD report urges embrace of human augmentation to fully exploit drones and AI for warfighting
9 June 2021 — Drone Warfare
Click to open report from MoD website.
The MoD’s internal think-tank, the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) along with the German Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning (BODP) has published a disturbing new report urging greater investigation of – and investment in – human augmentation for military purposes. The following is a brief summary of the 100+ page document with short comment at the end.
UFO Reports Are Fertilizer For Military Budgets
5 June 2021 — Moon of Alabama
Since December 2019 the United States has a Space Force as one of eight branches of U.S. Armed Forces. Each of those branches has lots of higher ranking officer positions. All people who are put into those want a lucrative board seat at some weapon manufacturer when they retire. They will only get one if they manage to create enough revenue for those manufacturers while they are still in uniform.
NATO Ready to Fight in Seven-Year Black Sea Conflict
16 May 2021 — Internationalist 360°
The Romanian press, in reporting on the ongoing U.S. Army-led 30,000-troop, 27-nation war games codenamed DEFENDER-Europe 21, cited an American commander in the country characterizing them as “mutual intra-NATO defense.” A suggestion: NATO should publish a Militarese-English dictionary for the uninitiated.
Ban Killer Drones: International Grassroots Movement to Ban Weaponized Drones Launched (Part 1)
10 May, 2021 — CovertAction Magazine
By Jack Gilroy
Protests outside Hancock Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York, in 2014. [Source: Syracuse.com]
An international grassroots movement to ban weaponized drones and military and police surveillance, entitled Ban Killer Drones, has been launched. Go to www.bankillerdrones.org to see the teamwork results of this excellent resource on the United States’s not-so-secret assassinations around the world.
