America could lose its entire army in Iraq if it continues with plans to attack Iran, according to military expert William Lind.
The third and final act in the national tragedy that is the Bush administration may soon play itself out. The Okhrana reports increasing indications of “something big” happening between the election and Christmas. That could be the long-planned attack on Iran.
Al Qaeda is gaining recruits so quickly it now forsees an Islamic emirate in Iraq's Anbar province, according to a Reuters interview Sunday.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., the same one that raised the alarm over Dubai investing in American ports, is investigating alleged ties of voting software firm Smartmatic to the Venezuelan government.
The ties consist of a $200,000 investment by the Venezuelan government in a smaller company which was later purchased by Smartmatic, placing one Venezuelan official on Smartmatic’s board of directors. Further . . .
Daniel Ortega, former head of Nicaragua's Sandinistas, is leading the polls in the election for President in Nicaragua. And while John Negroponte is currently unavailable to do the US administration's dirty work in Central America, Oliver North was recently despatched to Nicaragua to warn its citizens against voting for Ortega.