Partnership Between Military, Industry and Academia Pays Off

Partnership Between Military, Industry and Academia Pays Off In 2000 the Office of Naval Research greated the Power Electronic Building Blocks (PEBBs) Science and Technology program.  It was touted as an example of ONR funded partnership between government, industry and academia.  By encouraging insustry “buy in” early in the science and technology program, the Navy [...]

Theodore Postol and MIT, Part 2

I was going to write up a second part of this article, but the Wikipedia page on Postol pretty much sums it up:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Postol Basically, if you go against the military on campus they will go after you. Since this whole project was one of clearing out my old files, I can move onto something [...]

MIT: Addicted To Strangelove

http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N38/col38mike.38c.html COLUMN Addicted To Strangelove Michael Borucke Rush is nearly over. Next week classes start and the work begins. Has orientation prepared you for MIT? You’ll find out, I guess. Of all the things I was told during orientation — or for that matter, during my four years as an undergrad — I would have [...]

BIOWARFARE RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT U.S. UNIVERSITIES

BIOWARFARE RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT U.S. UNIVERSITIES Overshadowed by Star Wars, the push toward developing ghastly instruments of biological warfare has been one of the Reagan administration’s best-kept secrets. The research budget for infectious diseases and toxins has increased tenfold since fiscal 1981, and most of the 1986 budget of $42 million went to 24 U.S. [...]

Fiat Pax: University Profiles

Fiat Pax is a student based site that monitors military influence in universities.  Looks like they were run by students at the University of California system.  They did activism around the UC running Los Alamos, and other military research there.  The tradition of confronting militarism on campus continues from a long history. It is unclear [...]

MIT: Still Collaborating With The Pentagon? by Bob Feldman

Here we are reprinting an excellent report on the collaboration of MIT and the Pentagon done by Bob Feldman.  It is a model other universities should use in exposing their military connections. located at: http://diswww.mit.edu/menelaus/peace2/1479 ================================================= MIT: Still Collaborating With The Pentagon? by Bob Feldman MIT was the 10th-largest recipient of U.S. Air Force contracts [...]

Theodore Postol, MIT, and Missile Defense Research Part 1

Introduction This is a departure from a focus on New Mexico to one on another state, Massachusetts, and another educational institution, MIT, that has strong ties to the military.  Their ties may be institutionally stronger than institutions in New Mexico, but the principles of military influence in the educational system are still the same.  It [...]

Military Research Agendas For the Future

Check this page out.  A bit dated but a good Introduction to the threat of military research: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_militarizationspace.htm Military Research Agendas For The Future, by Steve Mizrach, aka Seeker1 *The Militarization of Space *”Smart Weapons: The Automatization and Mechanization of Warfare *Eco-Terrorism: The Use of Nature Against The Enemy *Battle For The Mind: Behavioral and [...]