Gates accuses Iran of subversion in Latin America

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused Iran Tuesday of engaging in "subversive activity" in Latin America, saying it concerned him more than Russia's recent naval forays in the region.

"I'm concerned about the level of frankly subversive activity that the Iranians are carrying on in a number of places in Latin America particularly South America and Central America," Gates told lawmakers.

"They're opening a lot of offices and a lot of fronts behind which they interfere in what is going on in some of these countries," he said.

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Hmmm....verwacht binnenkort maar weer "spontane" opstanden in bepaalde Latijnsamerikaanse landen, voornamelijk die stoute ALBA-landen...

The US-NATO Preemptive Nuclear Doctrine: Trigger a Middle East Nuclear Holocaust to Defend "The Western Way of Life"

by Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, February 11, 2008

Excerpt:

The controversial NATO sponsored report entitled “Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership". calls for a first strike use of nuclear weapons. The preemptive use of nukes would also be used to undermine an "increasingly brutal World" as a means to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction:

"They [the authors of the report] consider that nuclear war might soon become possible in an increasingly brutal world. They propose the first use of nuclear weapons must remain "in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction". (Paul Dibb, Sidney Morning Herald, 11 February 2008)

The group, insists that the option of first strike of nuclear weapons is "indispensable, since there is simply no realistic prospect of a nuclear-free world." (Report, p. 97, emphasis added):

Nuclear weapons are the ultimate instrument of an asymmetric response – and at the same time the ultimate tool of escalation. Yet they are also more than an instrument, since they transform the nature of any conflict and widen its scope from the regional to the global. ...

...Nuclear weapons remain indispensable, and nuclear escalation continues to remain an element of any modern strategy.

Nuclear escalation is the ultimate step in responding asymmetrically, and at the same time the most powerful way of inducing uncertainty in an opponent’s mind. (Ibid, emphasis added)

The Group's Report identifies six key "challenges", which may often result as potential threats to global security:

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Gates waarschuwt voor splitsing in NAVO

Het voortbestaan van de NAVO loopt gevaar als een aantal leden van het bondgenootschap zich onttrekt aan de verplichtingen bij de missie in Afghanistan.

Daarvoor heeft de Amerikaanse minister van Defensie, Robert Gates, gewaarschuwd op een veiligheidsbijeenkomst in München.

Gates uitspraak komt na een week waarin de Verenigde Staten zware druk hebben uitgeoefend op NAVO-leden als Frankrijk, Duitsland, Italië, Spanje en Turkije om meer gevechtstroepen te sturen om de Taliban in Zuid-Afghanistan te verslaan.

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De Navo zit sinds het einde van de Koude Oorlog al in reservetijd, en wordt misbruikt om de geopolitieke belangen van de corporate Amerikaans-Israelische as veilig te stellen, onder de vlag van de zogenaamde war on terror . Wat hebben we te zoeken in een organisatie die zichzelf het recht wil voorbehouden om preventief kernwapens in te zetten? Niets.

De tijd is meer dan rijp om er uit te stappen.

UPDATE 11 FEBRUARI:

The US-NATO Preemptive Nuclear Doctrine: Trigger a Middle East nuclear holocaust to defend the western way of life