August 14, 2008

F William EngdahlENGDAHL: Russia went into Georgia to essentially deliver a message. There are more than 1,000 US military special forces in Georgia doing exercising, training Georgian troops, before Georgia launched the attack on Ossetia on 8 August. There are 1,000 Israeli troops at least, private security firms and military ( Read more... )

Navy relieves commander of air recon squadron

By CHELSEA J. CARTER - 12 hours ago

SAN DIEGO (AP) - The commander of a Navy air reconnaissance squadron that provides the president and the defense secretary the airborne ability to command the nation's nuclear weapons has been relieved of duty, the Navy said Tuesday.

Cmdr. Shawn Bentley was relieved of ( Read more... )

Politics / Russia Aug 11, 2008 - 07:15 AM

By  F. William Engdahl

The dramatic military attack by the military of the Republic of Georgia on South Ossetia in the last days has brought the world one major step closer to the ultimate horror of the Cold War era-a thermonuclear war between Russia and the United States-by miscalculation. What is playing ( Read more... )

7/7 had a training exercise the same day, 9/11 had a training exercise the same day.

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Dress rehearsal for disaster

Mike Aldax, The Examiner

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Unless you want to experience the pandemonium of a devastating terrorist attack, you might want to steer clear of downtown San Francisco on Aug. ( Read more... )

YES! Magazine Summer 2008: A Just Foreign Policy
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Radiation exposure: Australian veterans of the nuclear tests are planning to begin their own lawsuit

* Audio: Veterans plan legal action over radiation exposure (The World Today)

After years of denials, British defence chiefs have reportedly admitted that some servicemen were exposed to deadly radiation during ( Read more... )

By failing to disarm and breaking the rules when it suits, nuclear states are driving proliferation as much as Ahmadinejad

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Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:49:36

Egypt has refused to allow entry to an Israeli truck carrying 3.5 ton of ceramics after high radiation levels were detected in the shipment.

Egyptian officials seized the goods at the Al-Oja border crossing after radiation detection equipment showed a high presence of radioactive material in the cargo, a security official ( Read more... )

'Shameful' Vote in Parliament Highlights Extent of Government Corruption

By Emily Wax

Washington Post Foreign Service

Thursday, July 24, 2008; A14

NEW DELHI, July 23 -- There were backroom deals. There were wads of cash waved about as alleged evidence of bribery. There were six lawmakers on hand who had just been sprung from jail so they could cast ( Read more... )