American Views Abroad

 
The Nebraskans for Peace website has a well documented and very troubling article on US Strategic Command (StratCom) and the Impending Attack on Iran:

For over half a century, the seemingly remote Omaha Air Force Base in the American heartland served exclusively as the command center for the U.S.'s nuclear deterrent. After 9/11, however, StratCom underwent a significant transformation of its role and mission, becoming in effect the 'war room' for waging the White House's 'War on Terror'. StratCom retained its historic responsibility for overseeing the largest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world. But it acquired the additional charges of 'full-spectrum global strike' (staging offensive, preemptive attacks); combating weapons of mass destruction; space and computer warfare; ballistic missile defense; and surveillance and reconnaissance (the 'warrantless wiretaps' conducted by the National Security Agency, for instance, were a StratCom project).
......The role and mission of StratCom has changed so dramatically in the past five years that most of the world has little idea of what is currently going on there.

They are urging the international media to take a closer look at what is indeed going on there.
www.nebraskansforpeace.org/?p=18.


Seventeen Republican Congressmen broke with their Party to vote for a resolution opposing escalation of the war in Iraq. The Political Junkies names them and highlights in red their winning percentage points. In North Carolina both Congressmen won re-election by 71 and 69%. http://www.thepoliticaljunkies.net/.
- posted by Gloria @ 3:47 PM