The Pentagon Made F-35 Performance Tests Easier

by | Feb 24, 2013 |

Because "it's too heavy and slow." Via Laurence M. Vance: "The Pentagon's pursuit of the Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter jet has been a heartbreaking one. If you're a tax payer, the program's estimated $1 trillion price tag probably breaks your heart a little bit. If you're an aviation enthusiast, the constant whittling away of the do-it-all aircraft's features, which in many cases actually amounts to adding weight and taking away maneuverability, must hurt a little bit, too. "If you're...

‘Moral Injury’ in the Terror War

by | Feb 23, 2013 |

Apparently "Kill! Kill! Kill! Blood Makes the Grass Grow!" is not working well enough anymore at destroying the consciences of young American G.I.s Well I guess we need to find a better way to help normal people deal with the psychopathic acts the government hired them to commit. You know, or stop getting into evil imperial wars all the time.

Poor Babies

by | Feb 23, 2013 |

NYT: Drone Pilots Are Found to Get Stress Disorders Much as Those in Combat Do "In the first study of its kind, researchers with the Defense Department have found that pilots of drone aircraft experience mental health problems like depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress at the same rate as pilots of manned aircraft who are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan." More.

Jeremy Hammond speaks out from solitary confinement

by | Feb 22, 2013 |

Jeremy Hammond is the accused Anonymous hacker facing life in prison for hacking Stratfor. Life. Though the presiding judge's husband was compromised in the hack, she refuses to recuse herself from the case. Also, Hammond has released a statement from solitary confinement. On Thursday morning, the judge overseeing Jeremy Hammond's trial for his alleged involvement in the famed LulzSec Stratfor hack refused to step down from presiding over the case, despite a reported conflict of interest....

When solitude is torture By George F. Will

by | Feb 21, 2013 |

'Zero Dark Thirty,' a nominee for Sunday’s Oscar for Best Picture, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture. This practice, which ended in 2003, was used on only three suspects [tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans were tortured by George F. Will's buddies in the wars that he mongered. -ed]. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of American prison inmates are kept in protracted solitary confinement that arguably constitutes torture and probably violates the...