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“I wonder how the foreign
policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national
boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children
everywhere as our own.” Howard Zinn
The US NSS and its permanent war (Cold War,
Drug War, War on Terror, Empire, Space War, War on China, Cyberwar) reach into countless US institutions, pervade the
lives of the populace, and intrude into national sovereignty and individual
lives around the world. Naturally the
NSS is the subject of many of the newsletters in OMNI’s web site, such as: Afghanistan
My Blog focuses on US
empire, militarism, US National Security State, Pentagon War Department, and
peacemaking and peacemakers: War Department/Peace Department. I am also have been filming “OMNI
Book Sampler” on peacemaking and peacemakers twice a month on Community TV’s
Short Takes, ,shown also on my Blog.
And my Blog has my US
Contents of US NSS Newsletter #1
March 22, 2013
Gagnon, New
Missile “Defense” in Maine
Melley, Secrecy
and NSS
Mueller, From
Threats to Fear to Political Control
Engelhardt on
Fear USA
Dick: Hearts and Minds
Graham on Military Urbanism
Dick: Hearts and Minds
Graham on Military Urbanism
Engelhardt,
Terror Fears
Turse,
President/Pentagon and Middle East Despots
Engelhardt,
Post-Legal USA
Douglass,
Assassination of JFK Jr
Contents #2
National Security
Agency (NSA) Domestic Spying
Obama and
Militarization of Police
Top Secret USA
Giroux: US Warfare State
Blum: Exporting “Democracy”
Dick: Cyber Threat, Fear, Empire, War
Google Search US
Cyber War
Barry: Drones
Further Militarize the Border
Kuzmarov: US Police Training for Repression and Empire
McCoy: Policing US Empire
Dick: US NSS Newsletters
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FAQ
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Timeline
Timeline of NSA Domestic
Spying
All of the evidence found in this timeline can also be found in
the Summary of Evidence we submitted to the
court in Jewel
v. NSA. It is intended to recall all the credible
accounts and information of the NSA's domestic spying
program found in the media, congressional testimony, books, and court
actions. For a short description of the people involved in the spying you can look
at our Profiles page, which includes many of the key characters from
the NSA Domestic Spying program.. MORE
Mon May 27, 2013 7:56 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Michelle J. Kinnucan"
mjkinnuc, Veterans for Peace
Obama Expands Militarization of Police
"Among items transfered to local law enforcement agencies have
been assault rifles and grenade launchers, even Blackhawk
helicopters and .50 caliber machine guns; In fiscal year 2011
alone, the Pentagon transferred almost $500 million worth of
materials to domestic law enforcement - near double the previous
year's total"
Watch the video or read the transcript here
<http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view\
&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=10231> .
"Among items transfered to local law enforcement agencies have
been assault rifles and grenade launchers, even Blackhawk
helicopters and .50 caliber machine guns; In fiscal year 2011
alone, the Pentagon transferred almost $500 million worth of
materials to domestic law enforcement - near double the previous
year's total"
Watch the video or read the transcript here
<http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view\
&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=10231> .
GOOGLE TOP SECRET USA
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Top 10 Declassified Secrets - Listverse
listverse.com/2008/04/29/top-10-declassified-secrets/
Apr
29, 2008 – [WARNING: this list contains images
that may offend] This is a list ofsecret projects that have since
been found to be true in light of released ...
2.
USA Top Secret - Das Pentagon (German) - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LzWimDi_Hs
Dec 5, 2012 -
Uploaded by LessonsGerman
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dieser Teil nicht gerade renoviert worden und deshalb kam bis auf paar
Handwerker und die frisch ...
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USA Top Secret: Area 51 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBRGUK5GYXE
Jan 21, 2013 -
Uploaded by lightspirit12
Lange
bestritt die amerikanische Regierung ihre Existenz. Heute wissen wir, es gibt
sie, die Area 51 ...
4.
Top Secret America | washingtonpost.com
projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america
Jul 19, 2010
Washington
Post reporters Dana Priest and William M. Arkin's investigation of the
government's response to ...
6.
News for Top Secret USA
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The US National Security Agency is
currently collecting the telephone records of millions of unwitting individuals
via a secret court order issued...
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Pentagon finishing top-secret space
mission of mysterious X-37B - RT
rt.com/usa/top-secret-mission-air-orbit-094/
Jun
5, 2012 – The US Air Force has announced that its top-secret X-37B spaceplane is
expected to land back on Earth this month after over a year in orbit.
9.
Super Top Secret: Home
wearetopsecret.com/
SUPER TOP SECRET IS A CREATIVE SHOP HELL
BENT ON MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER
PLACE
10.
Complete List - Top 10 Weird Government Secrets - TIME
www.time.com/time/specials/packages/.../0,29569,2008962,00.html
It's
not just military secrets that governments keep close.
And some information, like the recently revealed allegation that Winston
Churchill ordered a cover-up of ...
11.
Did Bing Maps Capture the Top Secret U.S. Drone Base in Saudi ...
gizmodo.com/.../did-bing-maps-capture-the-top-secret-us-drone...
Feb
8, 2013 – This past week, reports have come out
about a top secret US drone base inside Saudi Arabia
12.
Security clearance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance
3.1.1
Controlled Unclassified; 3.1.2 Confidential; 3.1.3 Secret; 3.1.4 Top Secret; 3.1.5 Compartmented.
3.2 Jobs that require .... Top Secret clearances, in general,
afford one access to data that affects national security, .... USA
13.
Air Force launches top-secret mini-space
shuttle - USA Today
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/...top-secret.../1761367/
Dec
11, 2012 – A top-secret mini-space shuttle has
blasted off from Cape Canaveral . The Air Force
launched the unmanned spacecraft Tuesday aboard an ...
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The Warfare State
Since
9/11, the war on terror and the campaign for homeland security have
increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies they sought to crush. Violence
and punishment as both a media spectacle and a bone-crushing reality have
become prominent and influential forces shaping U.S. Hollywood
cinema, cable television, and deregulated contractors. The metaphysics of war
and associated forms of violence now creep into every aspect of U.S.
As the preferred “instrument of
statecraft,” war and its intensifying production of violence crosses borders,
time, space, and places.2 The result is that the United States
It gets worse. One consequence of the
permanent warfare state is evident in the recent public revelations concerning
war crimes committed by U.S. Kandahar U.S. government are far from new and date back
to infamous acts such as the air attacks on civilians in Dresden
along with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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PENTAGON/NSS CYBER THREAT, FEAR, EMPIRE…..WAR?
By Dick Bennett
It’s a familiar headline: “Cyber-teams to Attack Foes, Pentagon
Says. General: Good Offense Best Way U.S.
Here’s the first paragraph—but any
passage, like so many from the Pentagon or White House on foreign policy, is difficult
not to interrupt, so deceptive it is:
“The Defense Department is establishing a series of cyber-teams tasked
with carrying out offensive operations to combat the threat of an electronic
assault on the United States that could cause major damage and disruption to
the country’s vital infrastructure, a senior military official said.”
The “Defense” Department? The General Keith Alexander doubletalks
himself into what we all should know by now:
It’s the old, and at least factually and linguistically honest War
Department. The entire report shows how
utterly offensive is a “good offense” of “offensive operations”! Against what? Against “major damage and disruption to the
country’s vital infrastructure”
Specifically (par. 2)? To
“combat the threat of electronic assault.”
Threatening what? The “electric grid
and other essential systems.”
How “defend”? The Pentagon is already on the case with its
U.S Cyber Command (backed up by Commands covering the entire globe, each with
its acronym—Cencom, Afcom). What is
Cybcom doing (this report recounts a hearing before the fearful, cheerleading
Senate Armed Services Committee in a country drastically reducing early
child-care education and other vital services but expanding Cybcom and the
other coms)? Cybcom is forming 13 cyber-teams “for the mission of guarding
the nation in cyberspace.”
Guarding? The General means
attacking, “attack foes.” “He described
them as ‘defend-the-nation- teams but stressed their role would be
offensive. In comments to reporters
after the hearing, Alexander likened the teams’ duties to knocking an incoming
missile out of the sky before it hits a target”; i.e., like Star Wars,
including missile defense for ‘first strike.”
He also said the teams would work outside the United States
What will this cost? The
Senators apparently asked no question about the cost of super-cyber
security. What will each team
cost? That depends upon the number in
the team, ranks, travel, equipment. Can
it be done for $100,000 minimum, times 40 or $4,000,000? Or have I wildly underestimated? What do you think? And keep in mind that another article
reported that the goal of Cybcom is 100 teams.
And what’s omitted from the AP
report? He does not mention the Pentagon
“teams” surely already and for decades protecting its computers and data, so
Cybcom is another layer of security, like the Top Top Secret agencies
established after 9/11. And is then
Cybcom like nuclear bomb overkill? If
Cybcom is needed in addition to all the already existing cyber security, another strong doubt arises when we recall
nuclear retaliatory doctrine. To the
consideration--“While foreign leaders are deterred from launching cyber attacks
on the United States
What’s left to ask? I
have been discussing only the first 7 paragraphs, which inspire these and more
as yet unstated questions, so legally questionable is this enterprise. For example, the AP report did not confront
the legality of the preemptive attacks on “foes.” Because of the constant violation of
international laws by the US (over 40 illegal interventions and invasions since
1945, now drones attacking in several countries without invitation) have the
Pentagon and the mainstream news media become so sure of public acceptance of
aggression that attacks on other countries that have not attacked you, which
are expressly forbidden by the United Nations Charter and Nuremberg Principles,
do not matter to them?
1.
GOOGLE SEARCH Pentagon forming cyber teams to prevent attacks AND TO ATTACK
Mar 12, 2013 – Keith Alexander, the top
officer at U.S. Cyber Command, warned ...The financial industry typically is
more secure than companies that ... risks posed bycyber thefts and intrusions
and the economic costs to U.S.
2.
Pentagon Plans to Deploy More Than 100 Cyber Teams by Late ...
www.nextgov.com/defense/2013/.../pentagon...cyber-teams.../61948/
Mar 19, 2013 – Cyber Command forces dedicated to
protecting critical infrastructure ...Within three years, the Pentagon's Cyber
Command will deploy more than 100 teams... And each service is
working through the financial constraints of ...
3.
Pentagon creating teams to
launch cyberattacks as threat grows ...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../pentagon...teams...cyberattacks.../35aa9...
Mar 12, 2013 – Head of military's Cyber Command outlines major effort to
build offensive and defensive capabilities. ... Being a teen parent will cost you ... ThePentagon's Cyber
Command will create 13 offensive teams by the fall of 2015 ... were the work of Iran in retaliation for U.S. financial sanctions imposed to
deter Iran
4.
Pentagon Plans Elite Cyber Teams
www.itbusinessedge.com/...it.../pentagon-plans-elite-cyber-teams.htm...
Mar 13, 2013 – ... to build 13 teams at the Pentagon's Cyber
Command to go on the offensive. ... threat of cyber attack against U.S.
5.
Pentagon forming cyber teams to prevent attacks | TPM Idea Lab
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Mar 12, 2013 – The Defense Department is establishing a series of cyber teams charged ... Keith Alexander, the
top officer at U.S. Cyber Command, warned during ... The financial industry typically is
more secure than companies that ... risks posed by cyber thefts and intrusions and the economiccosts to U.S. businesses.
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Pentagon creates 13 offensive cyber teams for worldwide attacks ...
endthelie.com/.../pentagon-creates-13-offensive-cyber-teams-for-wor...
Mar 13, 2013 – The head of the United States Cyber Command says the US is developing 40 new teams of cyber-agents that will both
protect America
7.
Pentagon forming cyber teams to prevent attacks - News, Weather
Tom Barry, Truthout, May 19, 2013: Public attention and Congressional
review, writes Barry, should focus on the increasing
militarization of border control, especially in the management of the
border drone program.
“American
Police Training and Political Violence: From the Philippines
Conquest to the Killing Fields of Afghanistan
and Iraq
"In
the police you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The
wretched prisoners huddling in stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey cowed
faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been
flogged with bamboos." -- George Orwell, Shooting An Elephant and Other Essays
".
. . the dreary wall of the Vietnamese Surete that seemed to smell of urine and
injustice." -- Graham Greene, The Quiet American
As
the U.S. United
States in Iraq U.S.
Ignored
in mainstream media commentary and "think tank" analyses is the fact
that the destructive consequences of American strategy in the Middle-East and
Central Asia today are consistent with practices honed over more than a century
in the poor nations of the periphery. Police training has been central to American attempts to expand its
reach from the conquest of the Philippines United States as humanitarian initiatives
designed to strengthen democratic development and public security, these
programs achieved neither, but were critical to securing the power base of
local elites amenable to U.S.
Quite
consistently across time and space, American policy-makers have supported
police suppression of radical and nationalist movements as a cost-effective and
covert means precluding costly military intervention which was more likely to
arouse public opposition. During the mid 1960s, the Director of United
States Agency of International Development (USAID) David Bell commented in
congressional testimony that "the police are a most sensitive point of
contact between the government and people, close to the focal points of unrest,
and more acceptable than the army as keepers of order over long periods of
time. The police are frequently better trained and equipped than the
military to deal with minor forms of violence, conspiracy and subversion."2 Robert W. Komer who served as a
National Security Council advisor to President John F. Kennedy further stressed
that the police were "more valuable than Special Forces in our global
counter-insurgency efforts" and particularly useful in fighting urban
insurrections. "We get more from the police in terms of preventative
medicine than from any single U.S. South Vietnam
This
article, drawing on declassified U.S.
government archives, examines some of the landmark instances in the historical
development of American police training programs to highlight the origins of
current policies in the killing fields of Afghanistan
and Iraq U.S. United States U.S.
In
his trilogy on the American empire, Chalmers Johnson demonstrates how the
United States has historically projected its global power through a variety of
means, including economic blackmail and the manipulation of financial
institutions, covert operations, arms sales, and most importantly, through the
development of a global network of military bases whose scale dwarfs all
previous empires, including Rome.5 This article seeks to add
another important structural dimension of U.S.
"Breaking
Up Bands of Political Plotters": Colonial Policing and State Terror in the
Philippines
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Policing The New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies Alfred W. McCoy, R. Anderson Sutton, Thongchai Winichakul, and Kenneth M. George, Series Editors "In this stunning book, McCoy reveals how empire shapes the intertwined destinies of all involved in its creation. Written with deft strokes, this is an instant classic of historical writing." —Lloyd Gardner, author of The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present 2011 Winner of the George McT. Kahin Prize, the Association for Asian Studies At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to today’s war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from But security techniques bred in the tropical hothouse of colonial rule were not contained, McCoy shows, at this remote periphery of American power. Migrating homeward through both personnel and policies, these innovations helped shape a new federal security apparatus during World War I. Once established under the pressures of wartime mobilization, this distinctively American system of public- private surveillance persisted in various forms for the next fifty years, as an omnipresent, sub rosa matrix that honeycombed "This remarkable study provides a meticulous analysis of the novel colonial system developed by the —Noam Chomsky, MIT "With a breathtaking sweep of archival research, McCoy shows how repressive techniques developed in the colonial Philippines migrated back to the United States for use against people of color, aliens, and really any heterodox challenge to American power. This book proves Mark Twain’s adage that you cannot have an empire abroad and a republic at home." —Bruce Cumings, Alfred W. McCoy is J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His books include The Politics of Heroin and A Question of Torture. For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email:publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
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Here are Dick’s.newsletters
related to NSS FROM Dec. 2012 to March
2013:
March 19, 2013, Iraq
3-17 Pentagon #9
3-16 Critical Thinking #3
3-16 Fear #4
3-15 Fossil Fuels Industry #2
3-15 Civil Liberties #4
3-12 Pentagon Propaganda Machine #1
3-11 PTSD #3
3-11 FOI #2
3-8 UN Women’s Day #5
3-6 Preventing Wars #1
3-5 Syria
3-3 US Chamber of Commerce #1
3-1 Women’s History #1
3-1 Afghan Peace Movement #2
3-1 Nuclear Free Pacific #2
February 2-24 US Capitalism
2-24 Manning #3
2-24 Torture #7
2-22 President’s Day
2-21 Literature of Enemies
2-18 Daisy Bates (racism)
2-16 Drones/Assassinations #9
2-13 Pentagon #8
2-8 Genocide #1
2-8 Peace Leaders #1
2-7 Hope #3
2-7 Black History Month
2-2 UN World Wetlands
Jan. 30, 2013 Wikileaks/Assange #10
1-28 Obama #8
1-22 Drones #8
1-21 MLK #1
1-17 US
1-17 Nonviolence #7
1-16 Book Samplers (books on peace)
1-16 Guantanamo
1-14 Afghanistan-Pakistan #19
1-12 US
1-3 War Resistance, Dissent
1 CIA
2012
Dec. 31 Costs of War #5
31 Gene Sharp #1
30 Islamophobia #1
28 Economic Conversion #1
28 Nonviolence #5
etc. nearing 200 numbers on a wide variety of peace, justice,
and ecology topics.
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