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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 (…)

"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 (…)

Remembrance Day (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom), also known as Poppy Day (Malta and South Africa) and Armistice Day (France, New Zealand, and many other Commonwealth countries; and the original name of the day internationally) is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on 11 November to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918.”
How unfortunate that we have a need (…)

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
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 (…)

Last March Evo Morales, first indigenous president of Bolivia, instituted in his country a loan to be granted to all children under the age of 12 years living in poor rural communities. During the launching event, Morales approached an indigenous boy and asked him, "What are you going to do now with this money?" The little boy answered "I am going to use it to study because I want to become a president of us like you are."
Such an answer from an indigenous child would have been unthinkable (…)

by F.William Engdahl
The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation
This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread. "Control the food and you control the people."
This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate (…)

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 (…)

UFOS: ARE THEY FOR REAL? Larry King Show on CNN (Video Part 1) http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2of08hBos
UFOS: ARE THEY FOR REAL? Larry King Show on CNN (Video Part 2) http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_u86T63i74
UFOS: ARE THEY FOR REAL? Larry King Show on CNN (Video Part 3) http://youtube.com/watch?v=kob8EgeiBAY
UFOS: ARE THEY FOR REAL? Larry King Show on CNN (Video Part 4) http://youtube.com/watch?v=7P-hNHG-Pmc

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 (…)