US prison labour, foreign weapons-makers finance Australian government think tank ASPI

US prison labour, foreign weapons-makers finance Australian government think tank ASPI

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute is not only funded by the Defence Department but also receives sponsorship money from foreign governments, weapons manufacturers, and US corporations that have used or are using prison workers paid as little as 23 cents an hour. Marcus Reubenstein reports.

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Profiting from 9/11: SAIC and Duane Andrews

The fact that Andrews was the most knowledgeable person in terms of the vulnerabilities of information and communications networks for U.S. national security seems a worthy point for further consideration. That’s because so many inexplicable problems occurred with defense communications networks on 9/11, including the following.

There were serious problems with the National Military Command Center’s conference calls that morning. Important participants could not be connected or were repeatedly dropped from the calls, including the FAA.[12]
U.S. national security facilities were in an information void on 9/11. Agencies that should have known the most about an ongoing terrorist event were blind to the ongoing attacks.[13]
The SIPRnet did not have any information about the attacks even as late as the afternoon of 9/11.[14]
President Bush complained of poor communications in that he “could not reach key officials, including Rumsfeld” and “The line to the White House shelter conference room – and the Vice-President- kept cutting off.”[15]

— Read on digwithin.net/2014/06/04/andrews-and-saic/

Lies About Iran Killing US Troops in Iraq Are a Ploy to Justify War

This bit of propaganda was floated by Vice President Cheney over a decade ago to justify his push for war against Iran.
— Read on truthout.org/articles/lies-about-iran-killing-us-troops-in-iraq-are-a-ploy-to-justify-war/

When this writer asked Robertson for further clarification of the origins of that figure, however, he acknowledged that the Pentagon doesn’t have any study, documentation, or data to provide journalists that would support such a figure.

The Redirection [2007]

Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?

The New Yorker, March 5, 2007