Take it away, Keith ( Read more... )

From John Shirley's Signs of Witness' Israel has tightened security at its airports, seaports and border crossings-increasing both technological surveillance as well as information gathering efforts -in order to thwart attempts at smuggling radioactive materials into the country. These materials could potentially be used in the production of a “ ( Read more... )

...But. For. How. Long???

The launch of the UK's Skynet 5B military communications satellite from French Guiana has been delayed.

' Bush told Pakistan's president on Wednesday that he must hold parliamentary elections and step down as army leader.

"You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same time," Bush said, describing a telephone call with Gen. Pervez Musharraf. "I had a very frank discussion with him ( Read more... )

From Signs of Witness ' While the world catches its breath after the sudden resignation of Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, questions are being asked about the background and beliefs of his successor, Saeed Jalili. The answers, it turns out, are troubling. [snip ( Read more... )

(If you don't know what a systempunkt is, go read John Robb for a while, m'kay ( Read more... )

' The South African National Defence Force "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday."

...The weapon, a ED-209 Oerlikon GDF-005, is designed to use passive and active radar, as well as laser range finders, to lock ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again... Bernard Weiner gives us his annual update on the deep background of the Forever War world ( Read more... )

Also from John Robb's Global Guerrillas, three reasons why the War on Terror won't end with the Bush presidency ( Read more... )

Next time some idiot whines about "but think of the children...", point them to this piece by Bill Lind ( Read more... )