from GNN
It’s on. It’s expensive. And it could destablize the world.
from Think Progress
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton on Fox News.
from TomDispatch.com
Descending into Madness in Iraq – and Beyond
By Tom Engelhardt
The last war won’t end, but in the Pentagon they’re already arguing about the next one.
A CounterPunch Exclusive
Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, “unprecedented in its scope.”
Bush’s secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area – from Lebanon to Afghanistan – but is also far more sweeping in the type of actions permitted under its guidelines – up to and including the assassination of targeted officials. This widened scope clears the way, for example, for full support for the military arm of Mujahedin-e Khalq, the cultish Iranian opposition group, despite its enduring position on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups.
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Protests StratCom
It’s been a couple weeks now since the 2008 Global Network conference. Thanks to everyone who attended and helped make this conference happen. It was truly a remarkable event. We’ve put together a list of links and resources for you to learn more about these important issues that are defining our world. And the beat goes on…
from guardian.co.uk
Another example of how Cheney’s Law continues to hurt our democracy.
from truthout
“If Vice President Dick Cheney has his way, he will beat McCain to the punch, possibly as soon as late May, after President George W. Bush returns from celebrating the 60th anniversary of Israel’s creation.”
by Chalmers Johnson, from AlterNet
60 years of enormous military spending is taking a dramatic toll on the rest of the economy.
Admittedly, “StratCom: The Most Dangerous Place on the Face of the Earth” sounded a bit over the top for the title of a conference. But by the time the participants caught their flight home from Omaha, Nebraska last month, there wasn’t anybody disputing whether U.S. Strategic Command deserved the label.
Two hundred people from 12 countries and 28 states gathered April 11-13 at the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space 16th Annual Space Organizing Conference to learn about this remote command in America’s heartland. And the local sponsor, Nebraskans for Peace, who for years had been fretting about what was going on in its own backyard, couldn’t have been more excited. There’d never before been an international conference specifically addressing the transformation that’s taken place at StratCom. But then, until just recently, StratCom had never before represented the threat to the world that it does now.
From the moment George W. Bush was rushed to StratCom’s underground headquarters at Offutt A.F.B. on 9/11, the U.S.’s nuclear command began to undergo what StratCom Commander General Kevin Chilton described as “not a sea-state change, but a tsunami of change” in its role and mission. In the years since 9/11, the command has seen its traditional and sole responsibility of maintaining America’s nuclear deterrent proliferate to include missions for space, cyberspace, intelligence / reconnaissance / surveillance, missile defense, full spectrum global strike, information operations and combating weapons of mass destruction. more…
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