http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htmFollowing is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated. The report, entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy.
......An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon, including by: ....
Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdforiginal document
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor..." "And advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
-- from "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century," September, 2000.
Here are summaries
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htmhttp://www.terraknowledge.net/news/terrak040503a.htmhttp://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigrandchessboard"For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.” (p.30)
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Grand Chessboard American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Journalist and News Producer Kristina Borjesson Examines Mainstream Media...What They Don't Do...and Why?In the news business...upsetting the government or the public makes no sense for the bottom line and should be avoided.... Not only is there no reason to change the status quo, there are actually good reasons to move more towards entertainment in every possible way because the more entertaining the program, the more audience it attracts.
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
Kristina Borjesson is an investigative reporter--almost an oxymoron, these days. She's also a news producer with a long line of credits from CNN, CBS, PBS and Pacifica Radio. She garnered an Emmy and a Murrow Award, among others. She gained particular fame and notoriety for her reports on the mysterious "disintegration" of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island on July 17, 1996. Recently she has edited a revised, expanded volume of essays, Into the BuzzSaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press, which we proudly offer as a BuzzFlash premium.
"Into the buzzsaw" is journalistic lingo for where "sensitive" stories go (i.e., stories that the powers-that-be choose to shred). They are censored, altered, or marginalized as "conspiracy theory" rather than being allowed to present the unvarnished facts and unsettling investigative findings. Only the most intrepid journalists take on the powers that be, because their challenging stories, their very vulnerable careers (think Dan Rather and the Bush National Guard story), and their high salaries will suffer the wrath of government and conglomerate ownership (General Electric, owner of NBC; Viacom, owner of CBS; Disney, owner of ABC; Time Warner, owner of CNN; or Rupert Murdoch, owner of FOX NEWS). The same forces affect news writers for papers like the Washington Post and The New York Times, who have yet to do one serious long-term investigative piece on the chronic lying of the Bush Administration between them. Basically, nearly the entire American mainstream media has gone into the buzzsaw.
BuzzFlash interviews Kristina Borjesson--courageous investigative journalist and herself a survivor of the buzzsaw.
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Monday, March 06, 2006
20 Stories That Made a Difference
For better or worseBy Steve Rendall and Peter Hart and Julie Hollar
FAIR was founded on the belief that journalism matters—that getting out the truth can improve the world, while news that distorts or denies reality can have terrible consequences.
To illustrate this conviction, we've compiled a list of 20 news stories published since FAIR's 1986 debut that had a major impact on society—for good or for ill. The list is not meant to be a comprehensive collection of the most momentous stories of the past 20 years, but rather to be illustrative of the power of media. Stories that should have led to serious changes, but were underplayed by corporate media, would be an entirely different list, of course.
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Thursday, March 02, 2006

Manatee River 2/28/06 about 4pm looking east

Manatee River 2/28/06 about 4pm looking west