from Cernig at At Largely:
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed El-Baradei confirmed that the radioactive material was found at the site but said the source was inconclusive.

November 19th, 2008 | Tags: CBRN, Depleted Uranium, IAEA, nuclear, Syria, uranium, USA, Weapons | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://crooksandliars.com…
Gun sales and the paranoid right: A sucker born every minute
Crooks and Liars by David Neiwert
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Before Election Day, the NRA was doing what it always does: Raising the specter of the liberal bogeyman — you know, the Incipient Dictator Who Wants To Take Your [...]

November 13th, 2008 | Tags: arms trade, military industrial complex, Obama, racism, Weapons | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://www.washingtonpost.com…
By Guy Faulconbridge
Reuters
Wednesday, November 12, 2008; 2:02 PM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected U.S. proposals aimed at easing concerns over a missile defense system in Europe and said it would try again to resolve the row once Barack Obama is in the White House.
Russia says the planned U.S. system will threaten its national [...]

November 12th, 2008 | Tags: missile, Russia, USA, Weapons | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

1. Wall Street Fat Cats Are Trying to Pocket Billions in Bailout Cash…
During his historic victory speech, President-elect Barack Obama told supporters, and the rest of the world, “If this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.”
But, it seems that Wall Street didn’t get [...]

November 9th, 2008 | Tags: banking, blackwater, economic warfare, Israel, Libya, mercenaries, money laundering, Obama, racism, Spain, war crimes, Weapons, wingnuts | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://en.rian.ru…
KALININGRAD - The deployment of precision-guided tactical missiles in Russia’s westernmost region would render ineffective a U.S. missile shield in Central Europe, Russia’s NATO envoy said on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said earlier on Wednesday that Russia would deploy short-range Iskander missile systems in its Kaliningrad exclave near Poland “to neutralize, if necessary, the anti-ballistic [...]

November 6th, 2008 | Tags: missile, NATO, Russia, USA, Weapons | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://news.slashdot.org…
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 05, @08:20PM
An anonymous reader writes “The US Army is ramping up the development of technology right out of the X-Files; ‘making science fiction into reality’ as Dr. John Parmentola — Director of their Research and Laboratory Management — puts it. The list of things currently in the [...]

November 6th, 2008 | Tags: military, Weapons | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://www.strategypage.com…
November 4, 2008: Venezuela is buying 18 K-8 jet trainers from China. Also known as the JL-8, it uses the 770 pound, 9.5 foot long Ukrainian Motor Sich AI-25TLK (3,300 pounds of thrust) jet engines, to power the 4.3 ton, two seat aircraft. Originally, China was going to use 3600 pound thrust American engines, but [...]

November 5th, 2008 | Tags: China, Venezuela, Weapons | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

http://www.spacewar.com…
by John Sweeney
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Oct 31, 2008
Venezuela is buying from Russia between 10 and 12 Mi-28NEs — Havoc or Night Hunter — helicopters.
The Mil Mi-28s will replace seven aged OV-10 Broncos currently deployed with Special Operations Air Group 15 at Maracaibo’s Gen. Rafael Urdaneta Air Base. Venezuelan defense officials boast that the FNAB will [...]

November 3rd, 2008 | Tags: Militarization, Russia, Venezuela, Weapons | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

WSWS - Alex Lantier
In a remarkable speech on nuclear policy delivered October 28 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), US Defense Secretary Robert Gates painted a dire portrait of international affairs and argued that Washington should expand the doctrine of pre-emptive war formulated by the Bush administration to include possible nuclear strikes.

October 31st, 2008 | Tags: nuclear, Weapons | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment