New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
New, Rare and Unreleased Material from the DMZ Empire
My latest, from Salon: “On May 14, at an industry conference in Colorado sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government revealed for the first time how much of its classified intelligence budget is spent on private contracts: a…
Today marks the 27th anniversary of the Kwangju Uprising in South Korea. On May 18, 1980, students, workers and citizens of the southwestern city of Kwangju took up arms after Special Forces under the command of Lt. Gen. Chun Doo…
Amazing – after nearly 60 years, the two Koreas are joined by rail. Once, long ago, it was possible to board a train in Pusan, on Korea’s southern tip, and travel all the way to Paris. What a trip that…
Here’s a story you won’t find repeated in the ‘left’ press. The Washington Post‘s brilliant Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports that a DoD unit in Iraq has sparked a confrontation with the State Department over its plans to reopen state-owned companies in…
AP: Former CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo was indicted Friday for accepting bribes in return for steering contracts towards an old buddy. “According to the new indictment, Foggo provided (Brent) Wilkes with ‘sensitive, internal information related to our national security,’…
WaPo: Major break seen in labor provisions in Bush/Dem trade bill. “The key to the agreement…was the Bush administration’s reluctant assent to Democratic demands for more stringent labor rules. Under the new policy, enforceable labor provisions will be written into…
My latest on the Intelligence Industrial Complex, in Salon. Tenet’s making lots of dough from intelligence and defense contractors – $2.3 million in 2006 alone.
YONHAP: “North Korea expressed support for a House resolution demanding Japan’s apology for sexual enslavement during World War II as more congressmen were signing on as resolution co-sponsors, campaign leaders said Wednesday. Soh Ok-cha, president of the Washington Coalition for…