The head of the U.S. special forces has revealed a likely controversial plan to triple the number of armed Afghans paid by NATO to protect their villages under a plan once described as “a community watch with AK-47s”. In a rare meeting with journalists Saturday, (Dec. 10, 2011) Adm. William H McRaven, the architect [...]
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After several sleepless nights negotiators (at Durban, South Africa, climate change negotiations, December 2011) were desperate to conclude and objections from India resulted in a watered down text which left the door open to future wrangling. In 1995 in Berlin, countries unambiguously launched negotiations on a legally binding protocol, which they agreed would only [...] Four years of bargaining over cluster munitions have failed—despite a drive by America, backed by Russia and China, to promote a deal that would have curbed but not banned the devices. Cluster weapons are a prime target for arms-control campaigners because of their indiscriminate effect. Such bombs or shells typically scatter hundreds of smaller [...] The Brazilian Amazon is now home to 24m people, many of them settlers who trekked those roads in the 1960s and 1970s, lured by a government promise that those who farmed “unproductive” land could keep it. Chaotic or corrupt land registries left some without secure title. Rubber-tappers, loggers, miners and charcoal-burners came too. The [...] The Central Intelligence Agency’s drone program has come under attack by human-rights groups who say they are preparing a broad-based campaign that will include legal challenges in courts in Pakistan, Europe and the U.S. WSJ’s Evan Perez has exclusive details of a British-based group taking legal action over an October drone mission that killed [...] Iranian news agencies reported an explosion Monday (Nov. 28, 2011) in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, which hosts a nuclear research facility, but on Tuesday the provincial deputy governor denied there had been any explosion. It was never made clear where the reported blast occurred, although there was nothing to link it to [...] The U.S. Air Force has authorized Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems to begin low-rate initial production of a radar-jamming decoy drone.The Air Force exercised a contract option and awarded Raytheon $5 million to produce the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy-J (MALD-J), converting an earlier production order for the baseline, non-jamming MALD model, Raytheon said. With a range [...] The Ministry of Defence want to use Rosyth Dockyard (Scotland) to dismantle submarines and store the radioactive waste material. The council has been asked to contribute to the MoD’s consultation and they want to get the opinion of local residents. There are three possible options for the future. One is that no work is [...] Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries. Dec. 1, 2011, WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry. Working with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well as media [...] Mass web destruction, spam and malware infection were among the scenarios involved during the first cross-border cyber drill organized by the United Nations and an international partnership against online threats in South-east Asia that aims to build cooperation and improve response measures to cyber attacks. The drill, launched by the UN International Telecommunication Union [...] |
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