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Comment by Larry Ross, July 24, 2007

Relations are deteriorating between Russia and the US due to a number of factors explored by Mike Whitney in his following article. Both nations have their nuclear missiles on 'hair-trigger' alert status, ready to be launched at each other "by accident, miscalculation, act of madness" as President Kennedy warned in 1962, or today's accepted US Congressional legalised nuclear madness of an intentional pre-emptive surprise nuclear attack. Bush has his new nuclear doctrines in place to launch pre-emptive nuclear war at whoever his executive decides threaten the USA. Any excuse will do and no facts or proofs are needed. The Bush regime doesn't even have to follow its original lie-based script, but can innovate with new lies and excuses as it did with the Iraq War since 2003.

According to the 2001 US Nuclear Posture Review, potential target nations include Russia and China as well as some 6 or more non-nuclear states including Bush's insane label "Axis of Evil" nations such as North Korea and Iran . Pushing US missile defences into the old USSR satellite states is seen by Russia as a possible preparation for a pre-emptive US nuclear strike. The uncertainty, distrust and fear that engenders, on top of the hair-trigger missiles of both states, in itself increases the risks of war by accident or miscalculation as Whitney points out.

Many commentators write that there is now a de-facto dictatorship in the US today and a completely dysfunctional US Congress unable to discharge its responsibility to keep the Bush executive branch in check. Only a small percent of enlightened, concerned Americans can impeach Bush in time to stop further wars - on Iran and others. If they occur Bush will immediately declare the imposition of a state of emergency and a full dictatorship which would act to smother opposition and prevent or abort any machinery of impeachment. A media blitz would persuade the public that these steps were necessary to protect America against terrorists and enemy states, and to preserve American freedom and democracy.

What was the mission Henry Kissinger and his entourage performed in their talks with Putin in their recent secret trip to Moscow? We don't know whether it was to threaten, to bargain or what.

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Kissinger's Secret Meeting With Putin

by Mike Whitney, July 17, 2007

    RAF fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian strategic bombers heading for British airspace yesterday, as the spirit of the Cold War returned to the North Atlantic once again. The incident, described as rare by the RAF, served as a telling metaphor for the stand-off between London and Moscow over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.” (Times Online, Richard Beeston; “RAF scrambles to intercept Russian bombers, 7-18-07)

   " Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion .” Niccoló Macchiavelli

   When a political heavyweight, like Henry Kissinger, jets-off on a secret mission to Moscow; it usually shows up in the news.

  Not this time.

  This time the media completely ignored---or should we say censored—Kissinger's trip to Russia and his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In fact, apart from a few short blurps in the Moscow Times and one measly article in the UK Guardian, no major news organization even covered the story. There hasn't been as much as a peep out of anyone in the American media.

  Nothing. That means the meetings were probably arranged by Dick Cheney. The secretive Veep doesn't like anyone knowing what he's up to.

  Kissinger was accompanied on his junket by a delegation of high-powered political and corporate big-wigs including former Secretary of State George Schultz, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, former Special Representative for Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., former Senator Sam Nunn and Chevron Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David O'Reilly.

  Wow. Now, there's an impressive line up.

   The group was (presumably) sent to carry out official government business as discreetly as possible. The media obviously complied with White House requests and kept their mouths shut.

Isn't the First amendment great?

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