Apiarius: The Bee Keeper: War on Terror, Surveillance, Military Industrial Complex, Battlefield USA, TSA

War on Terror

The Media and Iran: Familiar Mindlessness Salon
The Endless War--"The key trick of Endless War is to permanently maintain two contradictory official premises: (1) we're on the verge of Victory!; and (2) the threat is grave and we cannot let up. Without both of those premises, the citizenry will wonder why endless war is necessary or wise." Salon
"Arrows of the Night": The man behind the Iraq War Salon
PATRIOT Act Gives Foreigners Good Reason to Avoid US Clouds
Halfway safe at last, an Iraqi regrets helping U.S.
Pakistan's 'Memogate' triggers U.S. ambassador's resignation
Pakistani civilian victims vent anger over US drones
Iran downed US drone plane by hacking, not shooting it
US 'sorry' for frisking of India ex-leader Abdul Kalam
Marine Who Received Medal of Honor Fights Allegations He is Mentally Unstable--"But today Meyer, 23, is having trouble getting a job because of allegations by defense contractor BAE Systems that he has a drinking problem and is mentally unstable. Meyer filed legal papers Monday claiming the allegations were in retaliation for objections he raised about BAE's alleged decision to sell high-tech sniper scopes to the Pakistani military."

Surveillance

NPR's domestic drone commercial--"Excitement over America's use of drones in multiple Muslim countries is, predictably, causing those weapons to be imported onto U.S. soil. Federal law enforcement agencies and local police forces are buying more and more of them and putting them to increasingly diverse domestic uses, as well as patrolling the border, and even private corporations are now considering how to use them." Salon
Julian Assange warns of phone monitoring
Wikileaks docs reveal that governments use malware for surveillance
Big Brother, Come Clean: The FBI is Misusing "Community Outreach" Programs for Intelligence Gathering
Could the U.S. Government Start Reading Your Emails?

Military Industrial Complex

Inside the Corporate Plan to Occupy the Pentagon
The Pentagon Flunks Another Audit
H.R.5353 - War Is Making You Poor Act--Introduced in 2010 by now former US Representative Alan Grayson, this bill was supposed to "eliminate $154 billion of supplemental war funding from the 2011 budget and use the savings to give all U.S. citizens an income tax credit."

Battlefield USA