[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [presentdanger] Bringing the War Home

[Joseph T. Miller]

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THE PRESENT DANGER 
"Standing In Defense of International Law, International Cooperation, and Multilateralism"
http://www.presentdanger.org/ 

June 16, 2003
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Introducing two new commentaries from The Project Against the Present Danger

Bringing the War Home: Right Wing Think Tank Turns Wrath on NGOs
By Jim Lobe
 
Having led the charge to war in Iraq, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an influential think tank close to the Bush administration, has added a new target: international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). AEI and its partner in the project, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, are setting their sights on those groups with a "progressive" or "liberal" agenda that favors "global governance" and other notions that are also promoted by the United Nations and other multilateral agencies. 

The two organizations announced June 11th that they are launching a new website (www.NGOWatch.org) to expose the funding, operations, and agendas of international NGOs, and particularly their alleged efforts to constrain U.S. freedom of action in international affairs and influence the behavior of corporations abroad. 

Jim Lobe <jlobe at starpower.net> is a political analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus (online at www.fpif.org). He also writes regularly for Inter Press Service.)

See complete new Present Danger commentary online at:
http://www.presentdanger.org/commentary/2003/0306antingo.html

With printer-friendly PDF version at:
http://www.presentdanger.org/pdf/gac/0306antingo.pdf

Pentagon Moving Swiftly to Become "Globocop" 
By Jim Lobe 
 
Much like its successful military campaign in Iraq, the Pentagon is moving at seemingly breakneck speed to re-deploy U.S. forces and equipment around the world in ways that will permit Washington to play "Globocop," according to a number of statements by top officials and defense planners. While preparing sharp reductions in forces in Germany, Turkey and Saudi  Arabia, military planners are talking about establishing semi-permanent  or permanent bases along a giant swathe of global territory -- increasingly referred to as "the arc of instability," from the Caribbean  Basin through Africa to South and Central Asia and across to the North Korea.

See complete new Present Danger commentary online at:
http://www.presentdanger.org/commentary/2003/0306globocop.html

With printer-friendly PDF version at:
http://www.presentdanger.org/pdf/gac/0306globocop.pdf
 
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