For many of us, 50 years is long before we were born. For others, the Cuban Missile Crisis seems like a time long past. And yet, one of the best ways to make sure that this scary moment in history is never repeated is to make sure we educate ourselves about just what happened. Test your knowledge of the Cuban Missile Crisis with our fun online quiz.
This is kinda cool — give it a whirl!
Cactus?
"One soldier told me, 'In my heart I want to empty my bullets into their chests.' He has not done anything yet, but we are watching him carefully."
An Afghan Army major describes his troops’ antipathy for US and NATO soldiers. A riveting read on those so-called “green-on-blue” incidents in Afghanistan, from The Daily Beast.
Exclusive: Marines Nazi-Flag Whistleblower Comes Forward
He’s a West Point grad, an Iraq vet…and a history professor specializing in Holocaust studies. “I think our public needs to realize that this is not a case of the ‘liberal media’ going after our brave men and women in uniform,” he tells MJ in an exclusive interview. “Symbols are important. They send messages. These messages are important.”
What’s Happening in the Persian Gulf Explained
More US-Iran posturing…and another Mideast war for oil?
Perhaps. Here’s everything you need to know.
They came for teachers, firefighters, cops. Next up? Soldiers:
From “Inside the Corporate Plan to Occupy the Pentagon”:
These ideas may sound like a bold new approach in an urgent moment—but in fact, the push for pension cuts and other corporate “reforms” at the Pentagon originates from an obscure advisory panel that has existed for a decade: The Defense Business Board. Its 21 members know little about military affairs, but they are rich in Wall Street experience, including with some of the biggest companies implicated in the 2008 financial meltdown. They are investment bank CEOs and CFOs, outsourcing experts, and layoff specialists who promote a corporate agenda of “behavior change” and “business solutions” in the military bureaucracy. The board proposes not only to slash and privatize military pensions, but also to have the Pentagon invest in oil futures, boost pay for its executives and political appointees, and make it easier for them to fire rank-and-file employees while scaling back those workers’ collective bargaining rights.
Who pays the big pensions for top-earning defense contractors? You do.
Under “corporate welfare” in the dictionary, see this:
A little loophole in most Pentagon contracts puts taxpayers on the hook for bailing out Lockheed, Raytheon, and other Beltway bandits when the stock market drains their pension funds.
Occupy the Pentagon, anyone?
"It is estimated that more than 128,000 nuclear warheads have been built since 1945, all but two percent of them by the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia."
One of many fascinating facts from a new report warning that, even though world leaders are talking a good line about nuclear disarmament, we could soon face a new atomic arms race.
Report: Military Blew Shocking Amounts of Cash on Weapons Since 9/11
Billions of it was supposed to go to troops on the battlefield. But instead, it went to record profits for makers of fighter jets.
4 Israeli Defense Force soldiers “detaining” a Palestinian girl, while posing for a picture with their rifles pointed at her head. Fucking outrage.
Io in questa foto vedo una ragazzina in ginocchio bendata e quattro soldati nazisti che le puntano armi alla testa. E voi?
(ecco, giusto per far riflettere certi bempensanti)
(via classe)
