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  • 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 (…)

  • While Pakistan Burns
    11 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    While Pakistan Burns
    If you think Musharraf’s wrong to free jailed Taliban members while he busts dissidents, wait until you hear who’s back on the loose.
    By Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau | Newsweek Web Exclusive Nov 9, 2007 | Updated: 11:27 p.m. ET Nov 9, 2007 Pakistani lawyers, human-rights activists and opposition-party members can scarcely ignore the irony of their situation: while thousands of them are being beaten and locked up under President Pervez Musharraf’s newly declared (…)

  • Palestine/israel : Peace and Democracy must go Hand in Hand
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thepeoplesvoice.org 11/10/07 By Ramzy Baroud
    After years of marked absence, the Bush administration has finally decided to upgrade its involvement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The announcement of a Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland has raised red flags for anyone who has learned from past experience how unbalanced and insincere peace efforts actually can lead to further violence. And it requires little cynicism to ponder how genuine these current efforts (…)

  • NATO Expands into Arab South, Hindered by US-created Chaos
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    Discreetly but progressively and confidently the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is expanding south and southeast almost uncontested — after the collapse of the former USSR-led Warsaw Pact — outside the mandate designated by its statute into the Arab Middle East as well as into the Caspian Sea regions.
    However, the U.S. obsession with the Iranian threat and with finding an exit strategy from the Iraqi quagmire made Washington less attentive to Turkey’s (…)

  • Special Intervention Group: Assassination accusations
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A television documentary claims that a Norwegian security company trains staff to torture and cites a report accusing the firm of executions.
    05 Nov 2007, 16:35
    On the Monday edition of Dokument 2 images from the Norwegian managed security company Special Intervention Group’s (SIG) extreme training course will be shown.
    The company is led by two Norwegians and provides training for Norwegians, Swedes and Danes to become bodyguards in war-torn countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • RULING THE WORLD
    8 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    RULING THE WORLD
    A Satirical Exposition
    By Peter Fredson
    November 8, 2007
    I just finished a long compilation of reasons why Bush invaded Iraq, using several thousand files from the past 5 years. Many reasons have been alleged for the invasion, some humorous, and others reaching the edge of criminality. The reasons seemed to shift and multiply as the administration gradually realized things were not going as well as it had hoped. Then a fellow blogger asked me to identify the reason I (…)