Peripheral Milit_Urb 22

[Image: On the Border: The 'Virtual Fence' Isn't Working, photo by Jeff Topping.]

TRENCHANT MILIT_URB

$1.2 billion fence adds little or no security by Luis Alberto Urrea.
On patrol with the US army in Iraq and Why some U.S. soldiers feel at home there.
The Iraq project, A mission impossible?
Guns or Bridges? or, Military robots to 2032?
Airline to Test Anti-Missile System
Baghdad Embassy Is Called A Fire Risk
Sovereignty by stealth / Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
The Architecture of Fear: Kabul Chronicles; Jolyon Leslie on the reconstuction of Kabul; Kabul gets only 3 hours of electricity a day


NATION BUILDING RAP SHEET

Global arms transactions, visualized in interactive map
FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including 'Shoot to Kill'
InfraGard - Public Private Partnership -Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Phronesisaical: No More Impunity for Mercenaries
Pioneering Blackwater Protesters Given Secret Trial and Criminal Conviction
"Jackasses with Guns": Mercenaries Terrorize Iraq
Nightmare or Reality?
Halliburton to Drill in Mexico
Bush Budget Would Bring Record Deficits
Global Guerrillas: PANDORA'S BOX



SURVEILLATOPIA

Blown Up: More Inflatable Military Stuff
Trevor Paglen's talk at Transmediale
Satellite Spotters Glimpse Secrets, and Tell Them
Disabled Spy Satellite Threatens Earth, but, Why the spy satellite won't fall on your head...
Airport Security Study
Networked Security in the City: A Call to Action for Planners
Punishing Thought Crime: Would New Bill Make YOU a Terrorist?
Seven Steps to a Homeland Security Campus
Governor's security tab is off the charts
San Francisco security cameras' choppy video
Police increase security for Super Bowl
Staging the Largest Terrorism-Response Drill in U.S. History
More Cities to Get Counterterror Money
Lasers to speed airport checks
Identifying a face from a single picture
Gallery: Homemade Bombs, From Richard Reid's Shoe to Kaczinski's Envelope
Gallery: Spy Gear and Police Tech at Homeland Security Conference
Federal buildings become Real ID zones
Navy ordered to establish sonar-free zones to protect whales, dolphins
Borders, Transit Top Security Spending


[Image: An elderly South Korean genuflects before a barbed-wire fence at Imjingak Pavilion, near the Panmunjom demilitarized zone, to show respect for his parents in North Korea.SF Gate.]

FRINGES OF WAR

FEMA Trailers Finding New Life
YouTube - Humanitarian impact of Israel's blockade of Gaza - 21 Jan 08
With aid of S.F. man's project, Afghan women risk lives for a song
Kandahar's cemetery of 'miracles'
Joint Chiefs Chairman: Close Guantanamo
Confusion Clouds Guantanamo Tribunals
A snag as justices mull Guantanamo detainees / White House seeks to put second case before high court
Torture Yourself
Privatized Prisons for Immigrants: The Expansion Continues
Mexico City's newest bus option: 'Ladies Only'
More interest in working on Dharavi, Mumbai
The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan



INSIDE THE DANGER ROOM

Pentagon Plots Sim Iraq for Propaganda Tests
Safety Zone for Missile Defense Radar
Tomato Factory Becomes Marines' High-Tech Trainer
Pentagon Explores 'Human Fear' Chemicals; Scare-Sensors, 'Contagious' Stress in the Works?
The French Pentagon
NYC's Subway Spycam Network Stuck in the Station
Border 'Surge'; Mexican Troops' Big Build-Up
Hayden Admits: Contractors Lead 'Enhanced Interrogations' at CIA Black Sites
Homeland Security's 'Cyber Storm' War Game
Brawny New Bunker Buster: 'Divine Thunderbolt'
DARPA Wants Supercharged Spy Cams
India Prepares Desert War Game



WITH[IN VIEW]

Half Dose #44: Saint- Nazaire Alvéole 14
Anti-Viruses and Underground Monuments: Resisting Catastrophic Urbanism in Saint Petersburg
Next Stop: Ljubljana, Slovenia - Where Soldiers Slept, a Cultural Enclave Rises
Post Cold War Nuclear Optic
The Evolution of Violence in the 21st Century
UK farmer built illegal castle behind haybales
X-ray art installation depicts injuries from terrorism
S African thief's getaway spiked
Call for Proposals: Moving Walls 15 Documentary Photography Exhibition
Art attack
Off the Wall
The Nature of Walls (via Phronesisaical)
Great Wall Mural, Bank of China, Dalian China
J.G. Ballard & Architectures of Control
How the Military Conquered the Natives of Subterranean Earth
Pentagon Looks Toward Space For Solar Power On Earth
Weaponizing the Climate: Geoengineering's Military Potential


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