*Editor’s Note ( Ralph Turchian0) – Requested Repost from 2013 Karl Smallwood November 29, 2013 Today I found out that during the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an… Read More ›
Cold War
Russia to oust USA from International Space Station
Tuesday, 13 May 2014 Russia is to deny the US use of the International Space Station beyond 2020 and will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites as it hits back at American sanctions imposed over the… Read More ›
Classified Nuclear Weapon Drawings Missing at Labs
April 2, 2014 Steven Aftergood Classified design drawings used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons have not been properly and reliably maintained by nuclear weapons labs managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the Department of Energy Inspector… Read More ›
Ukraine forms new defense force, seeks Western help
– Ukraine had as few as 6,000 combat-ready infantry and that the air force was outnumbered nearly 100 to 1 KIEV/SEVASTOPOL — Ukraine’s interim leaders established a new National Guard on Tuesday and appealed to the United States and Britain… Read More ›
Does the West need a war against Russia? Pravda
EEV: It appears they made this move, because they perceive the Western Powers as weak. They are already projecting additional scenarios for a possible violent escalation. – The U.S. Sixth Fleet headquartered in Naples may enter the Black Sea, but… Read More ›
Russia’s Foreign Ministry: Threats of US Secretary of State against Russia unacceptable
March 03, 18:45 MOSCOW “If Ukraine is only a territory of geopolitical games for certain Western politicians, this is the brotherly country for us,” the ministry said ITAR-TASS/Boris Kavashkin MOSCOW, March 03. /ITAR-TASS/. Moscow considers US Secretary of State John… Read More ›
Russian warship docks in Havana
Thursday, 27 February 2014 A Russian warship was docked in Havana Wednesday, without explanation from Cuba or its state media. The Viktor Leonov CCB-175 boat, measuring 91.5 meters (300 feet) long and 14.5 meters wide, was docked at the… Read More ›
Comrades in arms: Britain and Russia to sign defence deal
Once they were Cold War foes. Now Britain and Russia are preparing to work together on defence projects United together in friendship and labour: David Cameron and Vladimir Putin on a flight together. Photo: AFP By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent 10:00PM… Read More ›
US intelligence agencies incapable of detecting nuke threats – report
© Photo: Flickr.com/benben/cc-by-nc-sa 3.0 American intelligence and security agencies are not currently capable of detecting when foreign nations are building nuclear weapons or ramping up their existing programs, according to a newly released Pentagon report that faults a range… Read More ›
Army Fires Back on Its right to experiment on military personel without informed consent pre-1988
– at least 7,800 soldiers had been used as guinea pigs in Project Paperclip. – Soldiers were allegedly administered at least 250 and perhaps as many as 400 types of drugs, among them Sarin , one of the most deadly… Read More ›
Leadership: The Road To War Is Paved With Chinese Intentions
December 22, 2013: China continues to aggressively confront American ships and aircraft that come close to Chinese ships in international waters. The latest incident was on December 5th when a Chinese destroyer cut in front of an American cruiser… Read More ›
Chinese nuclear forces, 2013 Chart
Chinese nuclear forces, 2013 Hans M. Kristensen Robert S. Norris Abstract The number of weapons in China’s nuclear arsenal is slowly growing, and the capability of those weapons is also increasing. The authors estimate that China has approximately 250 warheads… Read More ›
How a war game brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster
Former classified documents show how close the Soviet Union came to launching an attack in 1983 Jamie Doward The Observer, Saturday 2 November 2013 12.43 EDT Prime minister Margaret Thatcher was alarmed by intelligence reports about the Soviet Union’s reaction…. Read More ›
Canadian Spycatchers Get Schooled / (Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle) who was caught spying for the Russians
October 15, 2013: The Canadian military is not happy with how the government handled a recent case of a naval officer (Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle) who was caught spying for the Russians. The military was particularly upset at how they were… Read More ›
Queen’s World War 3 speech: Found in the archives, the dress rehearsal for disaster
Speech was prepared for Queen to deliver at outbreak of World War Three In speech she denounces ‘deadly power of abused technology’ Words written by imaginative speech writer in disaster planning exercise By Claire Ellicott PUBLISHED: 18:04 EST, 31 July… Read More ›
U.S. foreign propaganda to be directed at Americans
Collage: Voice of Russia The United States has enacted a law on the modernization of the Smith-Mundt Act, which for the first time in 65 years gives American media outlets legal access to content and foreign directed propaganda that is… Read More ›
Russia deploys Nuke Subs to Southern Seas
Saturday, 01 June 2013 Russia plans to resume nuclear submarine patrols in the southern seas after a hiatus of more than 20 years following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Saturday, in another example… Read More ›
JFK secretly freed rapists, drug dealers and Mafia hitmen to kill Castro and curb threat of Communism, claims explosive new book
Revelations made by journalist Bill Deane in new book ‘Smooth Criminal’ It tells story of alleged CIA spy and ‘one-man crime wave’ Dave Riley Claims criminals allowed on ‘crime sprees’ in US when not working for CIA Deane: ‘Riley was … Read More ›
‘US, Russia plunging into new Cold War’
Published: 29 December, 2012, 10:35 Edited: 30 December, 2012, 00:17 Tit-for-tat moves between Russia and the US are plunging the two nations into a new Cold War, says Russia expert Stephen Cohen. Washington’s longtime policy towards Moscow is to… Read More ›
Decades after a risky Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets.
A Reporter at Large Operation Delirium by Raffi Khatchadourian December 17, 2012 At an Army research facility, a soldier given a powerful mind-altering drug said, “I feel like my life is not worth a nickel here.” Colonel James S. Ketchum… Read More ›
Family of Cold War bioweapons expert say he was drugged with LSD and pushed from window by CIA operatives as part of top-secret program
By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press PUBLISHED: 22:24 EST, 28 November 2012 | UPDATED: 22:24 EST, 28 November 2012 Murdered? Frank Olson was long through to have jumped to his death in 1959, but his sons now say he… Read More ›
Russian attack sub discovered just 200 miles from US East Coast is given safe harbor during Hurricane Sandy
Nuclear-powered sub believed to be part of Russia’s Northern Fleet It was armed withtwo types of anti-sub warfare missiles and torpedoes First time a Russian Sierra-2 class sub has detected near a U.S. coast U.S. defense officials are downplaying the … Read More ›
Declassified documents from 1980 show how US planned to fight a nuclear war: Directive 59
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:12:45 EST, 16 September 2012| UPDATED:12:53 EST, 16 September 2012 Declassified documents have revealed for the first time how the Carter administration planned to fight a nuclear war. Presidential Decision Directive 59, signed by President Jimmy… Read More ›
European ministers worry about ‘new Berlin Wall’ in North-South debt crisis split
By Agence France-Presse Thursday, August 23, 2012 7:32 EDT Topics: europe ♦ European Affairs Minister Alexander Stubb ♦ European ministers European ministers warned Thursday that the debt crisis risks splitting Europe between north and south in an echo of the… Read More ›