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MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - US cargo ship USNS PFC Dewayne T. Williams is expected to arrive in the small Norwegian village of Namdalseid on August 10, bringing heavy tanks, armored personnel carriers and landing crafts, the local Adresseavisen newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The cargo will include third-generation main battle tanks of the M1A1 Abrams type. This new, heavier equipment will replace trucks and personnel carriers which were previously stored in the mountain bunkers of Central Norway.
Local defense sources, cited by the Norwegian Aftenposten newspaper, say that the US’ decision to change war equipment stored in Norway was made on the basis of experiences from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Researcher Brett Ulriksen from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs believes this new arrival to be a sign of the US grim outlook on the future of Europe. “This may well be related to the Ukraine crisis”, he told Aftenposten.
The US has a total of six storage units located in the mountains of Norway’s central Trøndelag region. In addition to this, US war equipment is stored at two Norwegian Air Force stations in the area, one of them being co-located with Trondheim Airport Værnes, an international airport serving Trondheim, the country’s third-largest city.
The storage units were built during the Cold War and were the subjects of major controversy at that time. The first US ship containing military equipment arrived in the area in mid ‘80s and was met with demonstrations from local residents and harsh criticism from Soviet press, Adresseavisen writes. Now, however, there seems to be little controversy surrounding this issue, as even the NATO-opposing Socialist Left Party agreed to sign a renewal of the storage deal in 2006.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the crisis in Ukraine is just a pretext being used by NATO to stir tensions with Russia, as the Western military alliance seeks a reason to exist.

Lavrov made the remarks during an interview on Monday with Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency.

NATO “is looking for a new sense of existence,” said Lavrov, adding, “Russia turned up. If there was no Ukraine, I assure you, there would be another aspect of Russia’s inner or foreign politics used for speculations.”

The Russian foreign minister also said that NATO’s policy is based on the desire to assert their will at any price, adding that “for those who do not agree, they apply sanctions.”

“In other words, take revenge, I know no other way to call it, but avenge for independence and for the unwillingness to follow the one-sided, unipolar world,” said Lavrov.

Lavrov expressed regret over the military alliance’s “continuing attempts” to “drive all Europeans under the NATO roof,” calling it a “short-sighted policy.”

The remarks by Lavrov came on the same day that Russia’s permanent mission to NATO said the alliance’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen seeks to exert influence over an inquiry into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine.

The accusation came after Rasmussen blamed pro-Russian forces for the crash of the plane during an interview with French media.

The Malaysian flight was reportedly shot down over Ukraine’s volatile eastern region of Donetsk on July 17, when it was flying from the Dutch city of Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, killing 298 passengers and crew on board.

Western powers accuse the pro-Russians of firing a surface-to-air missile at the passenger plane. The pro-Moscow forces deny any involvement and blame the Ukrainian army for the incident.

Tensions between Western powers and Moscow heightened after Crimea declared independence from Ukraine and became part of Russia following a referendum in March.

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Russian Strategic Bombers Conduct More Than 16 Incursions of U.S. Air Defense Zones
‘Spike’ in Bear H flights over past week seen as test of U.S. air defenses
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Russia's Air Force strategic bombers, Tu-95, fly over Red Square / APRussia's Air Force strategic bombers, Tu-95, fly over Red Square / AP

BY: Bill Gertz
August 7, 2014 5:00 am

Russian strategic nuclear bombers conducted at least 16 incursions into northwestern U.S. air defense identification zones over the past 10 days, an unusually sharp increase in aerial penetrations, according to U.S. defense officials.

The numerous flight encounters by Tu-95 Russian Bear H bombers prompted the scrambling of U.S. jet fighters on several occasions, and come amid heightened U.S.-Russia tensions over Ukraine.

Also, during one bomber incursion near Alaska, a Russian intelligence-gathering jet was detected along with the bombers.

“Over the past week, NORAD has visually identified Russian aircraft operating in and around the U.S. air defense identification zones,” said Maj. Beth Smith, spokeswoman for U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

Smith called the Russian flights “a spike in activity” but sought to play down the threat, stating the flights were assessed as routine training missions and exercises.

The bomber flights took place mainly along the Alaskan air defense identification zone that covers the Aleutian Islands and the continental part of the state, and one incursion involved entry into Canada’s air defense zone, Smith said.

The Russian strategic aircraft included a mix of Tu-95 Bear H heavy bombers and Tu-142 Bear F maritime reconnaissance aircraft, she said, adding that one IL-20 intelligence collection aircraft was detected during the flight incursions over the past week to 10 days.

The bomber flights are the latest case of nuclear saber rattling by the Russians.

However, other defense officials said the large number of aerial incursions is very unusual and harkens back to the Cold War, when Soviet bombers frequently sought to trigger air defenses along the periphery of U.S. territory as preparation for a nuclear conflict.

Moscow, under strongman President Vladimir Putin, is engaged in a major buildup of its strategic nuclear forces. The modernization includes new missiles of several ranges, new strategic missile submarines, and new long-range bombers.

As for its long-range aviation flights near U.S. coasts, Russia has been sharply increasing the activities, especially in the Pacific Northwest near Alaska, Canada, and the West Coast.

The Washington Free Beacon first reported that two Bear bombers flew within 50 miles of the California coast on June 9—the closest the Russians have flown their nuclear-capable bombers since the days of the Cold War. A U.S. F-15 intercepted the bombers.

A defense official disagreed with the spokeswoman on the increased bomber forays. Russian strategic nuclear forces appear to be “trying to test our air defense reactions, or our command and control systems,” said an official familiar with reports of the incursions.

“These are not just training missions,” the official added.

Northern Command and NORAD in the past frequently sought to dismiss the Russian bomber incursions as non-threatening as part of the Obama administration’s conciliatory “reset” policy of seeking closer ties with Moscow.

The Pentagon and other commands, however, have toughened rhetoric toward Russia and its activities after the Russian military annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in June.

Relations between Washington and Moscow have soured. The State Department last month accused Moscow of violating the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty by developing a new cruise missile.

Moscow dismissed the charges as untrue.

Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, expressed concerns about the increase in Russian strategic nuclear activities during a speech in Washington June 18.

Haney said Russian nuclear activities coincided with recent tensions over Ukraine and included the test launch of six air-launched cruise missiles in a show of force.

A Russian Defense Ministry statement on the cruise missile test launches said a Tu-95 bomber “is capable of destroying the critical stationary assets of an enemy with cruise missiles, in daytime and nighttime, in any weather and in any part of the globe.”

Moscow also conducted several large-scale nuclear war games in May, Haney said.

“Additionally, we have seen significant Russian strategic aircraft deployments in the vicinity of places like Japan, Korea, and even our West Coast,” Haney said at a defense industry breakfast.

“Russia continues to modernize its strategic capabilities across all legs of its triad, and open source [reporting] has recently cited the sea trials of its latest [missile submarine], testing of its newest air-launched cruise missile and modernization of its intercontinental ballistic force to include its mobile capability in that area,” he said.

Russia’s recent Cold War-level aerial encounters over the Pacific near Alaska followed an earlier U.S.-Russian aerial duel in Europe.

U.S. officials confirmed that an RC-135 Rivet Joint electronic intelligence gathering aircraft was forced into violating Swedish airspace by a Russian fighter jet July 18. The U.S. jet was seeking to evade the Russian interceptor jet at the time.

That encounter took place a day after Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by a missile over eastern Ukraine.

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Russia to deploy fifth-gen fighters, S-500 missiles in 2016

In 2016, the Russian military will start deploying two advanced weapons, the fifth-generation fighter jet PAK FA and the long-range surface-to-air missile systems S-500, chief of the Russian Air Forces said.

Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev gave an outline of his branch's modernization plans, including the build-up of Arctic infrastructure, in a radio interview with the Russian News Service station on Sunday.

The flight trials of PAK FA (T-50) will soon be over, and in 2016 the Air Force is planning to start commissioning the aircraft into service, the general said.

PAK FA is Russia's first fifth-generation fighter jet built by the Sukhoi Corporation. So far five prototypes have been completed and are undergoing various tests. The fighter is scheduled to eventually replace Sukhoi Su-27s.

“It took part in the [international pilot competition] Aviadarts twice and performed aerobatic flights in pair. I believe the aircraft has a brilliant future,” the general said.

T-50 fifth-generation multirole fighter (RIA Novosti / Alexander Vilf) T-50 fifth-generation multirole fighter (RIA Novosti / Alexander Vilf)

Another new addition to the ranks planned for 2016 is S-500, a state-of-the-art long-range air defense system developed by Almaz Antei, Bondarev said. The producer is finalizing new missiles for the system, which would have advanced homing electronics.

“The missiles will have a build-in intelligence system, which will analyze the aerial and radar environment and take decisions about its altitude, speed and direction of the flight,” the general said.

S-500 is an advanced version of S-400 with dedicated components designed to intercept ballistic missiles at a height of up to 200 km. The system is expected to be able to shut down up to 10 incoming ballistic missiles simultaneously. It also has an extended radar range compared to S-400.

Anti-aircraft missile system S-400 "Triumph" (RIA Novosti / Grigoriy Sisoev) Anti-aircraft missile system S-400 "Triumph" (RIA Novosti / Grigoriy Sisoev)

Gen. Bondarev confirmed the previously reported schedule for the development of PAK DA, a new Russian strategic bomber. So far little has been made public about the aircraft, which is to replace Tupolev Tu-95s and Tu-160s as the backbone of Russia's aerial nuclear capability. It's rumored to be a sub-sonic flying wing design and may have a new nuclear-capable cruise missile developed for armament.

The general confirmed that the Air Forces expect Tupolev to produce first prototypes of PAK DA by the end of the decade and launch series production in 2021-2022. In the meantime, modernization programs for Tu-95s and Tu-160s are enough to keep the Russian strategic bomber fleet in good shape and sufficient for the renewed long-range flight missions, he said.

Arguably the biggest modernization effort required from the Air Forces is focused on the Arctic infrastructure. Back in Soviet times the military maintained a massive network of airfields and radar stations in the north, but they were neglected in the years following the USSR’s collapse. With rich Arctic resources becoming more accessible and a potential for a conflict in the area growing, the Russian military are rebuilding the Arctic bases.

“We don't see any rivals in the Arctic now, but if a challenge comes, we must be prepared to defend this region. The presence in the Arctic will be increased,” General Bondarev said.

Russia this year reopened the Temp airfield on Kotelny Island north of eastern Siberia, the general announced. There are plans to enlarge the bases in Tiksi, Alykel, Vorkuta and Anadyr. In the future, full-strength divisions and regiments of the Russian Air Force will be deployed in the north.

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West seeks “total reconstruction of the world”

The tense situation between Ukraine and the United States is outlined in a paper released earlier this month by the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS). A week prior to the downing of Malaysian flight 17, the institute warned that the west “refuses to adhere to the principles and norms of international law and the rules and spirit of the existing system of international relations.”

Much like the United States Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, RISS provides “…information support to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the Federation Council, the State Duma and the Security Council as well as to Government offices, ministries and departments”.

The July 9th paper warns that the United States and NATO are attempting to create a “new world order” out of the Ukrainian situation that will impose totalitarian global laws and regulations. The basis of this system, warns RISS, will be a “single system to issue money”. The authors state that because this system will meet resistance, the threat of war needs to be maintained.

Ukraine, the authors write, is a testing ground for the establishment and its drive for world government. As the IMF and the global elite take over Ukraine,

“It seems that in addition to specific operational objectives, setting a formal and informal foreign control of key functions of the Ukrainian authorities may have the task of testing technologies… and disappearance of the sovereignty of independent States.”

The fact that this information is coming from an obviously pro-Russian perspective does not detract from the fact that this agenda has been well documented and observed for decades by researchers across the globe.

The recent incident involving flight MH17 has pushed the already tense situation with Ukraine closer to war. Despite unclear evidence about who was responsible for shooting down the aircraft, the Obama administration and others are still moving forward unblinkingly with a warpath agenda.

Award winning reporter Robert Parry recently stated that an inside source told him that satellite images show Ukrainian troops shooting down MH17.

Concerns about false flag events are underpinned by declassified documents like Operation Northwoods which sought to hijack and crash civilian aircraft. In 2006 it was revealed that Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George Bush planned to paint a U2 spy plane in UN colors and fly it over Iraq with the hopes that it would be shot down and spark a war.

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Aug. 1—The sanctions against Russia's financial sector and energy companies adopted by the EU—with the agreement of the German government— hit Germany's machine-building and medium-sized productive sector, the Mittelstand, particularly hard. They are part of a strategy of confrontation, which, as former German Secretary of State in the Defense Ministry Willy Wimmer correctly emphasizes, is preparing for nuclear war with Russia.

We have a problem: Our government in Berlin is not looking out for the general welfare and protecting us from dangers.

The sanctions against Russia must be condemned in the strongest possible terms and lifted immediately. There is not even a shred of evidence that President Putin was responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines MH17, and furthermore, it is the governments of Great Britain, the United States, and Ukraine which are so far refusing to publish the existing satellite photos, AWACS data recordings, and the findings of the air traffic controllers, not to mention the so-called "black boxes," which were taken into custody by the British government.

An unprecedented phalanx of pro-NATO news magazines is issuing war-mongering propaganda that is a painful reminder of the Nazi paper Der Stürmer, whose propaganda led to 80 million deaths. The propaganda also recalls the media campaigns against Saddam Hussein for alleged weapons of mass destruction, which led to the deaths of more than a million Iraqis, and the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad government in Syria, which also turned out to be lies. Or in times past, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which provided the pretext for the Vietnam War, with its more than 3 million victims. Everything today suggests that the downing or crash of MH17 was either a "false flag" operation or possibly a quite different element of war preparations against Russia.

The sanctions adopted on the basis of rash prejudgment of Putin will, according to Philippe Pegorier, head of the French company Alstom and president of the Association of European Business (AEB), cost Germany about 300,000 industrial jobs, especially in the machine-building sector, whose Russian customers will face financing difficulties as a result of the sanctions and will have to cancel their orders.

The campaign against Russia is actually about regime change, as Wolfgang Münchau recently brutally announced in an article on Spiegel Online. "We can crush the Russian economy in weeks," he bragged, by blocking their access to international payment systems. Münchau added: "Payment systems are the nuclear bombs of the financial war," and the EU has not only a common interest in stopping Putin, but also the means to do it.

Where the War Danger Comes From

Recently, quite a few people? although still too few? have warned that this all could lead to a third world war, a thermonuclear war. A group of former defense and foreign ministers and security experts from the European Leadership Network warned that the conflict in the eastern Ukraine threatens the security of Europe as a whole. They said that it was particularly disturbing that such crises could spiral out of control without warning, triggered by third parties, as recently in the case of the downing of flight MH17. National leaders need more time to make decisions, especially since both sides still have thousands of nuclear weapons on alert. A nuclear war as the result of a quasi-mistake is absolutely possible, they said.

That is certainly true, but the truth is much worse, because there are also those who are doing this intentionally.

The real reason for war lies in the complete bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic casino economy. In the face of the heroic struggle of Argentina to defend its sovereignty and the common good of its 41 million citizens, against the attempted raids of the NML hedge fund, the chorus of those who are now bloviating self-righteously? "But the debt must still be paid" ? is shocking beyond belief. These advocates of the "free" market economy apparently thought nothing of this hedge fund, NML Capital, backed by the American justice system, demanding a profit of 1,608% in six years.

But in the meantime, the same vulture fund, with the backing of the Obama Administration, has quietly positioned itself in Europe over the past year and a half, and has bought up dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of billions of euros of the bad debts of the European banks, on the same principle as it did in Argentina. They bought this worthless paper, which the banks were glad to unload so as to pass the "stress tests," for 3-4 euro cents per 1 euro, so as to turn around later and demand payment of the entire original, nominal value—just as in the case of Argentina.

According to Spanish media reports, such as CincoDias.com, the same vulture fund, Paul Singer's NML Capital, and its parent company Elliott Management, bought up at least €1.3 billion in distressed loans (what an expression!) in 2013 from Banco Santander, the largest bank in Europe, and other Spanish financial institutions, such as Bankia. The total cost to Elliott Management was a measly €50 million—less than 4% of the nominal value. In March 2013, Elliott bought €300 million of bad loans from Santander for a paltry €12 million; in August, Elliott and the hedge funds Lindorff and Cerberus Capital Management bought €1.354 billion in distressed loans from Bankia, for €38 million—3.8% of their nominal value.

The vulture funds are making such deals not only in Spain, but are "helping" stressed banks throughout Europe to dump their bad paper to the tune of about €800 billion, so that they can pass the European Central Bank's stress tests. Shortly afterwards, the hedge funds will demand payment of the original, nominal price of the real estate, bonds, or whatever—just as they did in the case of Argentina. Then it will be the European nations that are the suckers, or the citizens of these nations, whose bank accounts are expropriated by a gigantic "bail-in" : the Cyprus model for all of Europe.

At least then the chorus of the self-righteous bloviators should feel a lump in their throats (and maybe even enjoy it, as the condemned man enjoys his last meal).

Why the British Empire Hates Germany

Why is the German government backing sanctions against Russia, acting as willing assistants to a system that has Germany itself as a primary target on its hit list?

Anyone who wants to answer this question needs to understand the role of the British Empire, the City of London as well as Wall Street, which historically was always a branch of this empire.

Thus former Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin recently accused British Prime Minister David Cameron, in an open letter, not only of supporting Nazis in Ukraine, but also of operating in the tradition of Neville Chamberlain, who, in 1938, wanted to direct the Nazis into a war against the Soviet Union, as today the EU is being drawn into a war against Russia.

Willy Wimmer, in his recent article, also refers to the role of the British, and warns: Anyone in Russia in this situation who counts on the United States "or, what is almost worse, on the British, should keep in mind the fate of the German resistance against the Führer." (Former American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said openly that Russia should never be allowed control over its rich raw materials.) Wimmer is obviously alluding to the role of British intelligence (and another Western intelligence services), which betrayed to the Gestapo the desperate opponents of Hitler who had made contact with them.

The British Empire has hated Germany at least as long as, and for the same geopolitical reasons, that it hates Russia. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, in a memorandum written five days after the failed assassination attempt against Hitler of July 20, 1944, when bloody purges of the Nazi apparatus were underway, said:

"It may now be said with some definiteness that we are better off with things as they are today than if the plot of July 20th had succeeded and Hitler had been assassinated.... By the failure of the plot we have been spared the embarrassments, both at home and in the United States, which might have resulted from such a move, and, moreover, the present purge [by the Gestapo] is presumably removing from the scene numerous individuals which might have caused us difficulty, not only had the plot succeeded, but also after the defeat of Nazi Germany.... The Gestapo and the SS have done us an appreciable service in removing a selection of those who would undoubtedly have posed as 'good' Germans after the war.... The killing of Germans by Germans will save us from future embarrassments of many kinds."

The "good" Germans today are the Mittelstand companies and machine builders, who want to export to Russia, China, India, etc., and are therefore supposed to be ruined, so that what remains of German industry could be all the more easily smashed by the obscene demands of the banks and hedge funds in the coming "bail-ins."

A continuous line of geopolitics against Germany has extended from Lord Milner and Halford Mackinder, which led to the First World War and the conditions of the Versailles Treaty, which was supposed to neutralize Germany forever; then the murders of the signatories of the Rapallo Treaty; the financing of Hitler by the head of the Bank of England Montagu Norman, Prescott Bush, and Averell Harriman; and the transport of industrial plants by the British occupation forces after the Second World War; right up to the coup de grâce of getting the Germans to commit suicide today, by means of sanctions against Russia.

It is high time to change course and end the policy of the British Empire. Cooperation with the BRICS countries and Latin America, which are in the process of building a new, more just world economic order through the New Silk Road, is the path we must take. And de Gaulle was right: Perfidious Albion!

Translated from German by Susan Welsh

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Get out of NATO,
Before It's Too Late!

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
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Aug. 8—Quite the opposite to what is suggested by the demonization of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the regimented Western mass media, it is the British and U.S. governments, NATO, and the EU, who are escalating a confrontation strategy towards Russia, at the conclusion of which will be a thermonuclear world war and the extinction of mankind—if this is not stopped. The fact is, that there is only one way out for Germany: It must withdraw from the Alliance immediately, if it doesn't want to dig its own grave, and be complicit in the preparations for a war of aggression.

The infamous scenario is to find a way to overthrow Putin, one way or another. There is still not the slightest evidence that the eastern Ukrainian rebels or Russia were responsible for bringing down the Malaysian Flight MH-17, but instead, according to the respected investigative journalist Robert Parry, circles within the U.S. intelligence community now assume that it was the Ukrainian government or battalions of Ukrainian Nazis, egged on by the West against Russia. No one says a word about how Kiev has launched a massacre of its own people in Donbass, that is just as bad as the one Israel is carrying out in Gaza. The intention is obviously to increase the suffering of the oppressed, predominantly Russian population so that Putin, in light of the "unacceptable humanitarian situation," is forced to intervene militarily, or lose the support of his own people.

At the same time, the absolutely unjustified sanctions against the Russian economy are supposed to make it "grind to a halt," as Obama put it, and behind the sanctions is the intention to have Putin brought down by the Russian population because of the engineered privation. In a few weeks, as Wolfgang Münchau recently wrote in Der Spiegel, this financial nuclear bomb is supposed to blow away Vladimir Putin. If he opts for the military support of the pro-Russian population, which is at risk of genocide in eastern Ukraine, then this provides the pretext for the intervention of NATO, and then we are at war in Europe, which cannot remain limited due to the nature of nuclear conflict.

Cameron Takes the Lead

At the same time, preparations are in full swing, at the Sept. 4 NATO summit in Wales, to replace the allegedly outdated 1997 NATO Treaty with Russia, with a new one that will allow a forward stationing of weapons systems and troops to the Russian border, which under that treaty was expressly forbidden.

The British government has taken the high command, primarily because of the beleaguered state of Obama. British Prime Minister David Cameron is spreading propaganda, in the best tradition of Tony Blair's lies prior to the Iraq War, about an alleged threat to the Baltic States coming from Russia. British Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Gen. Sir Adrian Bradshaw, called on Aug. 3 in the Wall Street Journal for the creation of a rapid reaction force against Russia: "What is required, effectively, is an air-land package that provides a clear message that any incursion into NATO territory will result in a significant engagement with all of NATO." If Russia, at any time in the future, were to put significant pressure on a NATO member country by assembling conventional troops on its border, this country would be "reinsured" by such a NATO intervention force.

The fact that Russia has not the slightest intention to invade the Baltics, and that it has shown amazing restraint despite the genocide against the pro-Russian population in eastern Ukraine, is completely buried by the Goebbels-style propaganda.

But, according to Cameron, and as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel also made clear during his recent visit to the U.S.-European Command in Stuttgart, the NATO activities in Ukraine should be strengthened, although Ukraine is not a member of NATO, and with its current government, it is as far removed from the so-called "Western community values" as is the Earth from distant galaxies.

In reality, NATO's goal, since the fall of the Soviet Union, has been the encirclement of Russia, and the creation of a strategic situation in which Russia is no longer defensible. The soon-retiring NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has meanwhile declared himself in favor of NATO (which has long departed its role as a defensive alliance for the North Atlantic) also assuming tasks in the Pacific, thus joining the policy of the "Asia pivot" of the U.S.A. in the encirclement strategy toward China.

Locked into Confrontation

Leading European military, active duty as well as those in retirement, see themselves in a structure that has changed its character step by step. Nothing remains of the former Bundeswehr concept, which was based on Auftragstaktik ("mission tactics"), where officers were briefed on the overall mission, but encouraged to think for themselves, a model for civil society. Now, from the NATO structure, it is made brutally clear that independent thinking and strategic discussion is not in the job description of its military leadership, who are only to carry out orders. This is exactly what Samuel Huntington, promoter of the "Clash of Civilizations," describes in his book The Soldier and the State, as the function of the imperial army.

The topic of an exit strategy, of how to get out of the confrontation with Russia, is not being discussed at any level, either within NATO or in the EU. The escalation of NATO's and EU's eastward expansion, induced regime change through so-called "color revolutions," economic sanctions, and ultimately, war, are therefore not accidental drifting, but the intent. The aim is not only regime change in Russia and China, but the complete absorption of their entire territories. Or, as former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer had once expressed it: Russia controls far too many raw materials for the West to allow.

This imperial greed is fueled by the collapse of the trans-Atlantic financial sector, which brings the same geopolitical calculus into the game that had already stirred up the momentum against the "Eurasian heartland" prior to the First World War. But to imagine that it were possible, in the age of thermonuclear weapons, to eliminate unpleasant opponents through war, and then build an imperial hegemony afterward, is suicidal illusion.

The expressed intention of Münchau, to sweep away Putin in a few weeks with the help of the "financial nuclear bomb," is likely to prove to be hallucination-driven wishful thinking, and a boomerang. Because Russia, thanks to the BRICS and good cooperation with Latin America (see EIR, July 25, 2014), is by no means isolated. The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is already working with the Chinese military complex to replace the American electronics which are being withheld, and sees this as the first step of a new technology alliance of the BRICS countries. Latin American and the Central Asian states, as well as India, are already happy to be able to supply Russia with agricultural products. And now all these states are drawing their own conclusions from the blatant campaign of lies and provocations from the West.

Germany's Way Out

For Germany, it is an existential question: how to avoid being drawn into a thermonuclear war with Russia, and probably China, where, because of Germany's geographical location, not a single citizen would survive. If Germany were to agree to the proposed new charter at the upcoming NATO summit in Wales, it would be an absolute kamikaze operation. We call upon citizens now to support the exit from NATO!

There is an alternative. China has offered a form of economic cooperation with the New Silk Road program, which is open to all states. The BRICS countries, Latin America, and other nations are going to build a new just world economic order, and it is in Germany's fundamental interest to participate in it. This is true as well for the U.S.A., where some leading politicians are committed to precisely this cooperation.

China also has the most ambitious space exploration program in the world, with the intention of mining helium-3 on the Moon (see this week's Feature), where it is available in large quantities, as a fuel for a future fusion economy on Earth. Thermonuclear fusion based on helium-3 is the absolutely necessary next stage in the progression toward higher energy-flux densities which humanity must achieve, in order to secure energy and raw-materials security on Earth, as well as the energy source for space flight, and to overcome the dangers which threaten us from space.

Germany must take part in the attainment of these common aims of mankind. Only when the cooperation between nations has reached that level, as is taken for granted by the astronauts on the ISS Space Station, or with the European Space Agency's Rosetta space probe, will we overcome the infantile phase of humanity's development, and establish our identity as the only creative species, as the basis of our actions. And only in this way will we survive.

Peace can only be inclusive. It is impossible in this world, which is in such a disastrous state, that only some states enjoy security and cooperation, while the rest of the world is sinking into chaos. Instead of confrontation, we must finally put the promise on the agenda that was squandered during the lost opportunity of 1989: We need a blueprint for lasting peace in the 21st Century!

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The most comprehensive delivery of American weapons to Europe since the end of the Cold War is going on.

The most comprehensive delivery of American weapons to Europe since the end of the Cold War is going on. As was published by the Ministry of US Defence, to the Norwegian port Namdalsied recently secretly was delivered by the American 205-meter-long battleship "Dewayne T. Williams," more than 300 modern tanks Abrams A1-M1, armored amphibians, AAV-7 and armored combat vehicle LAV-25, according to the Croatian Newspaper Free Dalmacija.

Most of the material was transferred to the American military base that covers five Norwegian mountains. Norwegian media reports that American Marine Corps inside Norwegian mountains, disposes of about 32,000 square meters, and uses tehm as a warehouse for ammunition, military hospitals, accommodation for heavy weapons, armored combat vehicles, airplanes and helicopters.

After the Norwegian media, two days ago, revealed the operation of transport of tanks, spokesman for the US Department of Defense claims that is a "classic and routine operation of replacing old with new American weapons armament"

Special agreement, during the Cold War and the threat of the expansion of the Soviet Union, was signed by "dual covenant" USA and Norway to establish American base on the territory of Norway in Trondelag County.

Norway 'seventh power "requested clarification whether the allegedly routine replacement of old equipment with new, but much larger arsenal of that existing, has any connection with the events in Ukraine.

A member of the defense and security in the Norwegian Parliament, Per Sandberg, says that, at first glance, seems that Americans are further arming their base, but that it "accidentally coincided with the Ukrainian crisis."

The mass transport of the most modern military equipment and openly "rattling weapons" has not made locals indifferent, as well as Russians.

- Whom Obama thinks to attack?! All this is a heavy armored weapons designed solely for the attack and invasion, and not for the defense, said for the "Free Dalmatia" 67-year-old retired General Yuri Balujevski who from 2005 to 2008 served as Chief of Army Staff of the Russian Federation. Because of his harsh attitude against the United States and NATO, the Western media Balujevskog call Russian hawk.

Oil and gas reserves

During his service he did not hesitate to confront even the Russian Minister of Defense, because of the reduction of the number of generals and the sale of military facilities. He advocates close military cooperation with Iran, Syria and Egypt, and he calls Ukraine the "last line of defense of Russia".

- I think that to the European public now must be explained delivery of such quantities of weapons to North Europe. There is no doubt that these are events directly related to Ukraine and to exert pressure on Russia. What would happen if Russia now delivers heavy weapons to Cuba? Everyone would probably exclaim, "that's irresponsible behavior of Moscow." However, I do not believe in the use of the provided weapons. The Norwegian government has suspended all bilateral military activities with Russia and suspended visit of our warships and joint exercises at sea.

Too bad, because we had very good cooperation with the Norwegian army. American militarism will pass, and we will again have good relations with Norway, said general Balujevski, adding that Russia has formed two brigades that have been specially trained for war in polar conditions.

- In the northern Russian cities of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk are bases with brigades that will be able to defend Russia's geostrategic interests, primarily to keep control of oil and gas reserves in the area between Chukotka, Murmansk and the North Pole.

In addition to that, last year a reconstruction of seven airports in the Arctic was started that were completely abandoned after the collapse of the Soviet Union - explains Balujevski saying that he "does not see that someone because of Ukraine would start front war with Russia," writes Free Dalmatia.

- Delivery of American tanks is part of the political wrestling between Washington and Moscow. As far as the West feigns that it supports pro-European aspirations of Kiev, it much more behind the scenes works that Ukraine never arrives, not only to the door of the EU, but even to its lobby ... - openly says Russian general.

The new submarines

While Americans are accumulating tanks over Norwegian mountains, the Russian Baltic fleet does not stand still that is arming with new submarines, NATO code "black hole" because they are invisible to sonar, and new strategic missile systems S-400 Triumph, which are now fully operational. The first systems have arrived at the military-space defense brigade of the Baltic Fleet and are deployed around Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad is of great importance to Moscow, that there "anchors" the Baltic Fleet, and it is also the only European Russian port that is not encased in by ice in winter.

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American Heavy Tanks to be Stored in Mountains of Norway - Reports

http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20140805/...way--.html



MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - US cargo ship USNS PFC Dewayne T. Williams is expected to arrive in the small Norwegian village of Namdalseid on August 10, bringing heavy tanks, armored personnel carriers and landing crafts, the local Adresseavisen newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The cargo will include third-generation main battle tanks of the M1A1 Abrams type. This new, heavier equipment will replace trucks and personnel carriers which were previously stored in the mountain bunkers of Central Norway.

Local defense sources, cited by the Norwegian Aftenposten newspaper, say that the US’ decision to change war equipment stored in Norway was made on the basis of experiences from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Researcher Brett Ulriksen from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs believes this new arrival to be a sign of the US grim outlook on the future of Europe. “This may well be related to the Ukraine crisis”, he told Aftenposten.

The US has a total of six storage units located in the mountains of Norway’s central Trøndelag region. In addition to this, US war equipment is stored at two Norwegian Air Force stations in the area, one of them being co-located with Trondheim Airport Værnes, an international airport serving Trondheim, the country’s third-largest city.

The storage units were built during the Cold War and were the subjects of major controversy at that time. The first US ship containing military equipment arrived in the area in mid ‘80s and was met with demonstrations from local residents and harsh criticism from Soviet press, Adresseavisen writes. Now, however, there seems to be little controversy surrounding this issue, as even the NATO-opposing Socialist Left Party agreed to sign a renewal of the storage deal in 2006.

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NATO would respond militarily to Crimea-style infiltration: general
Reuters
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BERLIN (Reuters) - If Russia tries to infiltrate troops into a NATO country, even out of official military uniform as it did before it annexed Ukraine's Crimea, NATO will respond militarily, the alliance's top commander said in an interview published on Sunday.

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Soldiers wearing uniforms without national markings were deployed when Russia entered Crimea from late February. Although President Vladimir Putin initially denied involvement, he admitted in April that Russian forces had been active there.

Kiev and Western governments are now waiting to see if Moscow will intervene to support besieged rebels in Ukraine's Russian-speaking east. Some defense experts have said Putin might also look to the former Soviet republics in the Baltics which have large ethnic Russian minorities, such as Estonia or Latvia.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said although NATO had no plans to intervene in non-NATO member Ukraine, NATO countries in eastern Europe needed to start preparing for a possible threat from "little green men" - referring to soldiers in unmarked uniforms.

"The most important work to prepare a nation for the problem of 'little green men', or organizing of Russian (speaking)population, it happens first. It happens now," Breedlove said in an interview published online by German newspaper Die Welt.

"How do we now train, organize, equip the police forces and the military forces of (allied) nations to be able to deal with this?" he said, according to a transcript of his remarks in English provided by NATO.

"If we see these actions taking place in a NATO nation and we are able to attribute them to an aggressor nation, that is Article 5. Now, it is a military response," he said.

NATO's mutual defense clause says an attack on one member state is considered an attack against the alliance as a whole.

The Ukraine crisis has dragged relations between Russia and the West to their lowest point since the Cold War and set off a round of trade restrictions that are hurting struggling economies in both Russia and Europe.

NATO has taken a series of steps to reinforce its military presence in eastern Europe since the crisis began. Longer term measures are expected to be agreed at a NATO summit in Wales in September.

(Reporting by Michelle Martin in Berlin and Adrian Croft in Brussels; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

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NATO Seeking Long-Term Military Presence in Eastern Europe

RUSSELS, August 18 (RIA Novosti) – NATO's leadership implore the leaders of its member-states to approve the long-term deployment of troops to Eastern Europe during its September summit in Wales, NATO's leaders wrote in an article published by The Wall Street Journal.
"We need the presence of NATO forces in Eastern Europe for as long as necessary; upgraded intelligence gathering and sharing; updated defense plans; and an expanded training schedule with more exercises, of more types, in more places, more often," NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Supreme Allied Commander Europe Philip Breedlove said in the article.
NATO members are scheduled to meet in Wales to discuss the alliance's response to Russia, which it accuses of interfering in Ukrainian affairs.
NATO has strengthened its air-policing missions, deployed more ships to the Black Sea and Baltic Sea, and conducted more exercises in Eastern Europe, citing the need to protect nearby countries from Russia after Crimea rejoined the country following a referendum in March.
The NATO leaders said measures to protect the organization’s allies must remain in place long term.
"NATO also needs to upgrade elements of our rapid-reaction capability, so that the forces could deploy to a given site before a conflict erupts,” the article states. For that, NATOs leaders say the forces need "to pre-position equipment and supplies, so that they can travel light but strike hard if needed."
Poland's city of Szczecin, which is located in the vicinity of the Baltic Sea, is one of the possible bases for the equipment. The city already hosts 200 soldiers from Germany, Denmark and Poland.
At the beginning of June, UK Prime Minister David Cameron supported Breedlove's plan to enhance the NATO Response Force.

NATO, EU Military Assistance in Ukraine Impossible – Finnish Prime Minister


MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - There is no way to respond to Ukraine’s request for military support, Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb said in an interview with radio and TV station Yle.
“Of course it’s not possible. Not from NATO, because NATO only provides military assistance to its members, and that’s well known. And the EU doesn’t have the capacity to provide this kind of support,” Stubb said, discussing Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin’s request for military aid Sunday.
Stubb said Russia-EU relations are going through a lengthy deterioration and Finland’s wish is “for the wall between Russia and the West to be as low as possible.”
Sunday, foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France met in Berlin to discuss the Ukrainian crisis. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that NATO and the European Union would break all the agreements that had been reached so far if they decided to provide Ukraine with military support.

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NATO would respond militarily to Crimea-style infiltration: general
Reuters
August 17, 2014 11:37 AM
BERLIN (Reuters) - If Russia tries to infiltrate troops into a NATO country, even out of official military uniform as it did before it annexed Ukraine's Crimea, NATO will respond militarily, the alliance's top commander said in an interview published on Sunday.

Soldiers wearing uniforms without national markings were deployed when Russia entered Crimea from late February. Although President Vladimir Putin initially denied involvement, he admitted in April that Russian forces had been active there.

Kiev and Western governments are now waiting to see if Moscow will intervene to support besieged rebels in Ukraine's Russian-speaking east. Some defense experts have said Putin might also look to the former Soviet republics in the Baltics which have large ethnic Russian minorities, such as Estonia or Latvia.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said although NATO had no plans to intervene in non-NATO member Ukraine, NATO countries in eastern Europe needed to start preparing for a possible threat from "little green men" - referring to soldiers in unmarked uniforms.

"The most important work to prepare a nation for the problem of 'little green men', or organizing of Russian (speaking)population, it happens first. It happens now," Breedlove said in an interview published online by German newspaper Die Welt.

"How do we now train, organize, equip the police forces and the military forces of (allied) nations to be able to deal with this?" he said, according to a transcript of his remarks in English provided by NATO.

"If we see these actions taking place in a NATO nation and we are able to attribute them to an aggressor nation, that is Article 5. Now, it is a military response," he said.

NATO's mutual defense clause says an attack on one member state is considered an attack against the alliance as a whole.

The Ukraine crisis has dragged relations between Russia and the West to their lowest point since the Cold War and set off a round of trade restrictions that are hurting struggling economies in both Russia and Europe.

NATO has taken a series of steps to reinforce its military presence in eastern Europe since the crisis began. Longer term measures are expected to be agreed at a NATO summit in Wales in September.

(Reporting by Michelle Martin in Berlin and Adrian Croft in Brussels; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

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Promoting Confrontation With Russia

By Stephen Lendman
8-18-14


Washington's rage for war may end up targeting Russia next. Major media propaganda and disinformation seem inexorably heading in this direction.
Madness explains what's happening. Truth is systematically buried. It's turned on its head. Big Lies, distortions and deception substitute.
Western readers and viewers get a daily diet of outrageous managed news misinformation. America's so-called MSM are worst of all.
From The New York Times to Fox News, a systematic drumbeat of anti-Russian propaganda drowns out real news, information and analysis.
Winston Churchill once said "(a) lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Today it circulates instantly. Joseph Goebbels once said "(i)f you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
He called truth "the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Corporate media giants, so-called US public broadcasting and radio, Britain's BBC, Qatar's Al Jazeera, and similar operations regurgitate, hype, and proliferate state-sponsored lies, misinformation, distortions and deception.
The bigger the lie, the more often it's featured and repeated ad nauseam. Russia-bashing is outrageous. It substitutes for real news, information and analysis.
Readers and viewers are carpet-bombed with a daily drumbeat of misinformation. It doesn't rise to the level of bad fiction.
It's ideologically driven. It's one-sidedly biased. It's over-the-top rubbish. It's gross hypocrisy.
It turns heroes into villains. It blames victims for perpetrator crimes. It justifies the unjustifiable.
It spurns peace and conflict resolution. It heads inexorably toward East/West confrontation. It risks global war.
MSM culprits play major roles in influencing public opinion. Propaganda wars precede hot ones.
Deception, popular fiction and Big Lies launch them. Intense Russia bashing risks international peace, stability and security.
Washington's rage for war is humanity's greatest threat. Its permanent war policy deplores peace and stability.
Presidents wage wars at their discretion. Rule of law principles don't matter. Imagine risking conflict with Russia.
Imagine promoting it irresponsibly. Imagine a worst case scenario. Imagine risking humanity's survival.
Putin bashing never quits. It's relentless. The most outrageous Big Lies repeat ad nauseam. Truth is systematically buried.
Putin defends Russian sovereignty. He opposes US imperial lawlessness. Washington considers him public enemy number one. World peace hangs in the balance.
The New York Times suggests Russian humanitarian aid may be more a Trojan horse than a gift one.
Clearly it's the latter. Russia would have everything to lose and nothing to gain by trying to deliver arms and munitions to beleaguered Southeastern Ukrainians instead of promised humanitarian aid.
Don't expect The Times and other MSM members to explain. Instead, they regurgitate Kiev misinformation about covertly supplying Southeastern Ukrainian freedom fighters "men and weapons even if Moscow denies the charge."
A 280 truck convoy of desperately needed aid remains halted on Ukraine's border. Ukrainian officials began inspecting it.
It will take days or longer for completion. Delay advantages Kiev. Its terror war on civilians continues.
Around 70 or more lives are lost daily. Human misery is extreme. Lugansk and Donetsk have no electricity or water. Medicines and fuel are running out.
Food is in short supply. Heavy shelling continues. Civilian neighborhoods are targeted. Conditions are dire. Human misery worsens daily.
The Times and other MSM contributors blame victims for Kiev crimes. Washington supports them unequivocally.
On August 13, Vice President Joe Biden told Ukraine's illegitimate president Petro Poroshenko that Washington "would continue working with its international partners to press Russia to de-escalate the crisis, and end all support, arming, and financing of the separatists."
The NYT and other media scoundrels repeated the Big Lie and others like it. Washington's role in replacing Ukraine's democratically elected government with neo-Nazi fascists is entirely ignored.
So is explaining Kiev's war without mercy against its own Southeastern citizens. Murdering them in cold blood continues.
White phosphorus able to burn flesh to the bone and perhaps other illegal terror weapons are used.
Washington, its rogue Western allies and media scoundrels turn a blind eye to atrocities too grave to ignore.
Kiev fascists take full advantage. They're free to commit mass murder and destruction with impunity.
Desperately needed humanitarian aid is blocked. Preventing it is lawless collective punishment.
In collusion with Washington, a provocative EU statement turned truth on its head.
It called on Russia "to put an immediate stop to any form of border hostilities, in particular to the flow of arms, military advisors and armed personnel into the conflict region and to withdraw its forces from the border."
Washington bears full responsibility for Ukrainian crisis conditions. Rogue EU partners share it.
Ordinary Ukrainians suffer most. Don't expect The New York Times and other media scoundrels to explain.
On August 16, Foreign Policy headlined "Putin's New Clothes," saying:
"Russia's president is nakedly invading Ukraine. Why won't anybody say anything?"
Putin faced these outrageous charges many times before. He's gone all-out for peaceful conflict resolution.
He's shown remarkable restraint in doing so. He shames his Western counterparts. He's a master chess player. He's a world class leader.
You'd never know from the merciless bashing he takes. Big Fat Lies substitute for truth, all of it, and nothing else.
Foreign Policy repeated the fiction about a column of Russian APCs and tanks entering Ukraine.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen outrageously called it an "invasion."
Ukraine's oligarch president Petro Poroshenko said it was confronted and destroyed.
He provided no evidence proving what Russia's Defense Ministry called either a "phantom" or Ukrainian forces mistakenly at war with itself.
Foreign Policy invented its own truths. Real ones don't matter.
It outrageously accused Russia of "nakedly dispatch(ing) columns of armored vehicles into Ukraine, and stag(ing) a piece of pseudo-humanitarian theater to legitimate a more open form of warfare."
Imagine it by not crossing Ukraine's border. Without firing a shot. With food, clean water, sleeping bags and blankets, as well as medicines, medical supplies, and other vital aid.
Imagine countering Kiev atrocities with kindness. Imagine calling delivering humanitarian aid a crime.
Imagine depriving desperate people of vital aid to stay alive. Imagine Washington's dirty hands covertly orchestrating the worst of what's ongoing.
Imagine media scoundrel complicity by failing to report what demands headlines. Imagine coverup and denial of appalling high crimes against peace.
On August 16, the Wall Street Journal headlined "Some Realism on Russia," saying:
Ukraine's Poroshenko claims a Russian invasion could happen any day.
Journal editors repeated the Big Lie about "Putin's dreams of restoring Greater Russia."
Not a shred of evidence suggests it. He's been Russia's president from May 2000 to May 2008 and since May 2012.
In over 10 years as head of state, he did nothing to expand Russia's borders. He accommodated near Crimean unanimity to be part of Russia again. He acted responsibly doing so.
He didn’t invade. He deplores wars and violence. He supports peace and stability.
He believes nation-state sovereignty is inviolable. He opposes interfering in the internal affairs of other nations.
He respects rule of law principles. He deplores Washington's imperial agenda. That puts him at odds with Obama and rogue elements around him.
Journal editors accused Obama of letting his "adversaries advance at minimal cost or resistance."
With his multiple direct and proxy wars raging, suggesting he's soft rings hollow.
Not hardline enough, say Journal editors. Perhaps they favor hot war with Russia and humanity next.
Perhaps they prefer destroying humanity to save it. Confronting Russia belligerently risks what no rational leader would dare.
Yet events seem headed inexorably for trouble. Cool heads are absent when most needed. Will humanity survive the onslaught?
A Final Comment
Stanley Kramer's 1959 apocalyptic film "On the Beach" is must viewing. It's about nuclear radiation destroying life on earth following WW III.
The film stars Gregory Peck as US submarine commander Dwight Lionel Towers. Ava Gardner is his love interest.
Fred Astaire is Australian scientist Julian Osborn. He commits suicide to avoid the agony of radiation poisoning.
The final scene is chilling. Viewers won't ever forget. Earlier Melbourne streets showed normal life.
The end shows them empty, devoid of life and windblown. A church banner ironically reads: "There is Still Time…Brother."
No longer. Radiation poisoning is unforgiving. It has final say. Kramer's film explains the madness of nuclear war.
If waged, there's no coming back. No second chance. No salvation from slow painful death worldwide.
If that's not reason enough for peace and good will, what is?
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html

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