Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases

These talking heads in Washington appear quite happy with the idea of a “hot war” between Israel and Iran. It feels to me like the American people are being prepared, or set up, for this coming attack on Iran.

Rick Rozoff from Stop NATO website reports that on November 12, two days before Israel launched the “Operation Pillar of Defense” attack on the Gaza Strip, the three-week-long Austere Challenge interceptor missile exercises held by the Pentagon and Israel in the latter nation ended. The largest-ever joint war games, with 3,500 American and 1,000 Israeli military personnel involved, tested the Israeli Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow territorial and the longer-range US Patriot and Standard Missile-3 interceptor systems.

This indicates to me that Israel and the US had in fact planned this whole attack in advance to create a “battlefield” test of the new Iron Dome missile defense system in preparation for possible use against Iran. …

Read on: http://space4peace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/cavalierly-talking-war-with-iran.html

The US missile defense shield based in Eastern Europe has been under heavy criticism from Russia. The shield – which is being put in place to protect NATO countries – has Russian officials questioning the United State’s intentions. Russia believes the US defense system is aimed at their missiles and said the US must address their concerns or they will be forced to launch a pre-emptive strike to put an end to the defense shield. Bruce K. Gagnon, coordinator for Space4Peace.Org, joins us with more.

CAAB is on the Advisory Board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space www.space4peace.org

Those are the words of former Chinese diplomat Jia Xiudong. And they reflect the thinking in the Chinese government, as best we can tell. They don’t appreciate Obama’s “pivot” to Asia, a bellicose posture involving surging American militarism in the region and antagonizing Beijing in the hopes that US hegemony will be maintained.

China already feels squeezed by American militarism in its backyard. But it’s set to get much worse: a video report [the video above] from former CNN journalist Mike Chinoy, a senior fellow at the US-China Institute at the University of Southern California, reveals that the Navy will aim to have “60 percent of its assets” in the Pacific Ocean. …

http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/11/05/how-the-us-turns-peaceful-exchange-with-china-into-a-casus-belli/

The Lahore High Court has summoned the Pakistan government to immediately respond to the argument addressed in a petition against ongoing US assassination drone attacks in Pakistan. …

www.presstv.com/detail/2012/11/03/270294/petition-urges-halt-to-us-assassination-drones-in-pakistan/

This film was made in 2005 – it describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military–industrial complex and its 50-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was misled so that the government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world.

It really sets out why CAAB was founded and why we exist today. We strongly encourage you to watch it – if you haven’t (it is long – 99 minutes but well worth doing) – just to warn you – it is harrowing.

More about the film: www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/main.html

Purchase on Amazon: US – UK.

The U.S. Missile Defense program faces a bevvy of challenges as it continues in its push to field ballistic missile-defeating technologies against more and more advanced threats around the globe.