Senate Panel Approves $487.7 Billion Defense Spending Bill
CQPolitics.com – Washington,DC,USA
The Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee approved a $487.7 billion draft spending bill for fiscal 2009 Tuesday, as senators expressed hope that the …
CQPolitics.com – Washington,DC,USA
The Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee approved a $487.7 billion draft spending bill for fiscal 2009 Tuesday, as senators expressed hope that the …
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — The Czech Republic’s government approved the second and final part of a missile defense treaty with the United States on Wednesday …
ASK THIS – September 10, 2008
“Dealing with this controversial project will be the most pressing item on the missile defense agenda for the next U.S. president. And that’s only one problem with the ineffective, costly Star Wars shield. … ”
http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00365
By Tom Engelhardt – AlterNet – San Francisco,CA,USA – 8 Sept 2008
‘America garrison the globe in ways that really are unprecedented, and yet, if you live in the United States, you basically wouldn’t know it. … Sometimes they live on military bases built to the tune of billions of dollars that amount to sizeable American towns (with accompanying amenities), sometimes on stripped down forward operating bases that may not even have showers. When those troops don’t stay, often American equipment does — carefully stored for further use at tiny “cooperative security locations,” known informally as “lily pads” (from which U.S. troops, like so many frogs, could assumedly leap quickly into a region in crisis).’
This is a House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee consultation inviting submissions no later than 29th September 2008.
“The British Government’s non-proliferation approach, as set out in the National Security Strategy;
Initial submissions of written evidence are requested by not later than Monday 29 September.
www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/foreign_affairs_committee
Sep. 1, 2008
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
The Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD, has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran’s weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is imminent, according to a report in the country’s De Telegraaf newspaper on Friday.
The report claimed that the Dutch operation had been “extremely successful,” and had been stopped because the US military was planning to hit targets that were “connected with the Dutch espionage action.”
The impending air-strike on Iran was to be carried out by unmanned aircraft “within weeks,” the report claimed, quoting “well placed” sources. …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220186494776&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
by Margot Light London (UPI): Sep 4, 2008
The U.S.-built Ground-based Mid-course Interceptors planned for Poland might be directed against “rogue states” such as North Korea and Iran, but no one pretends that the Patriot PAC-3 anti-ballistic missile interceptors that can shoot down short-range or intermediate-range ballistic missiles or the stationing of American troops in Poland are directed at any country other than Russia.
And the reason why Poland feels that it needs Patriot PAC-3 anti-ballistic missile interceptor batteries and American forces is Russia’s threat that Poland is “making itself a target.” …
www.spacewar.com/reports/Outside_View_BMD_blowback_Part_Two_999.html
Moscow (UPI): Sep 3, 2008
Russia does not want to be dragged into another arms race, but it should not ignore the emerging threats. The Kremlin’s most obvious reply to the U.S. missile defense deployment plans to build a Ground-based Mid-course Interceptor base in Poland would be to equip the Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles of Russia’s Strategic Missile Force with supersonic maneuverable warheads …
www.spacewar.com/reports/Outside_View_BMD_dilemmas_Part_Two_999.html
Margot Light, London (UPI): Sep 3, 2008
The agreement concluded between the United States and Poland on Aug. 20 on the deployment of 10 interceptor missiles, part of America’s planned Ballistic Missile Defense system, was an inadvertent — and possibly unanticipated — result of the Russian-Georgian conflict. After months of prevarication, the Poles stopped increasing the level of military aid they demanded in return for hosting the missiles …
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Outside_View_BMD_blowback_Part_One_999.html
Tehran Times: Saturday, September 6, 2008
MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia will deploy high-precision weapons near Poland, following a U.S. missile defense deal signed in Warsaw last month to host an anti-missile shield on Polish soil, a senior Russian lawmaker said Thursday. …
