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  • Marlboro Marine
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/
    "Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh." George W. Bush

  • The U.S. neoconservative agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The U.S. neoconservative agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet
    by Michael E. Salla, M.A., Ph.D. – The Canadian November 8, 2007
    The Bush administration has covered up and ignored dissenting Pentagon war games analysis that suggests an attack on Iran’s nuclear or military facilities will lead directly to the annihilation of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet now stationed in the Persian Gulf. Lt. General Paul Van Riper led a hypothetical Persian Gulf state in the 2002 Millennium Challenge war games (…)

  • DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA: Masters of war plan for next 100 years
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "We think urban is the future," says James Lasswell, a retired colonel who now heads the Office of Science and Technology at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. "Everything worth fighting for is in the urban environment."
    By Nick Turse Oct 16, 2007 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/IJ16Aa01.html
    Duane Schattle doesn’t mince words. "The cities are the problem," he says. A retired marine infantry lieutenant colonel who worked on urban warfare issues at the Pentagon in the late (…)

  • The Uninvited Guest
    11 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Uninvited Guest
    Mathew Hickley – Daily Mail.co.uk November 10, 2007
    When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.
    At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world’s only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.
    That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory.
    American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by (…)

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Won’t Go Away
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The National Transportation Safety Board’s historic ruling on the probable cause of the April 2006 Predator B unmanned aircraft crash in Arizona represents just the first of a series of unmanned systems accident investigations that will follow as drones of all sizes finally win approval by federal air safety regulators to operate unfettered in the National Airspace System (NAS).
    November 6th, 2007 09:47 AM EDT
    The Safety Board ruled that the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) accident was (…)

  • Full Spectrum Mercenaries: Blackwater Goes to Mexico
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Eric Prince & Company appear to be set to expand into both border enforcement and the Bush White House drug war with an operational role in Plan Mexico, the $1.5 billion U.S.-Mexico drug war scheme to fuse drug-fighting agencies on both sides of the border under Washington’s control.
    November 9, 2007 By JOHN ROSS
    If and when private security contractor Blackwater USA and its heavily-armed operatives are forced to pull out of Iraq as the result of the September 16th rampage in (…)

  • BUSH THREAT OF WIII = CUBAN MISSILE REDUX by Pr Francis BOYLE
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Global Research
    November 8, 2007
    During the course of an October 17, 2007 press conference, President Bush Jr. terrorized the entire world with the threat of World War III if he could not work his illegal will upon Iran . Then Russian President Vladimir Putin responded in kind by likewise terrorizing the entire world with the prospect of yet another Cuban Missile Crisis if he did not get his way on the provocative anti-ballistic missile (A.B.M.) systems that the Bush Jr. administration (…)

  • Bush Stumbles Bernacke Mumbles and Aqua Dots Crumble
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush Stumbles Bernacke Mumbles and Aqua Dots Crumble By David Glenn Cox
    This week has been a wild ride on Wall Street. On Wednesday, Wall Street struggled with bad news, lots of bad news. GM lost 39 Billion dollars in the third quarter and the Chinese economics minister in a prepared speech before the peoples party Congress stated that the Chinese would seek strong currencies over weaker ones to invest in. The announcement pushed an already slumping dollar into a free falling dollar. As (…)

  • US: Iran Attack Plans Ready if Needed
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    US: Iran Attack Plans Ready if Needed
    Robert Burns – Associated Press November 8, 2007
    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials have signaled that up-to-date attack plans are available if needed in the escalating crisis over Iran’s nuclear aims, although no strike appears imminent.
    The Army and Marine Corps are under enormous strain from years of heavy ground fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still, the United States has ample air and naval power to strike Iran if President Bush (…)

  • Near-panic atmosphere as US Federal Reserve chairman testifies before Congress
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Near-panic atmosphere as US Federal Reserve chairman testifies before Congress
    By Barry Grey 9 November 2007
    On Thursday, one day after American stock markets plummeted in the face of mounting bank losses, soaring oil prices and record lows for the US dollar, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a gloomy economic forecast in testimony before Congress’ Joint Economic Committee.
    Bernanke admitted that the US housing slump and the credit crisis resulting from soaring (…)