http://www.globalresearch.ca/…
by Prof. James Petras
Global Research, May 25, 2008
Wars in an imperialist democracy cannot simply be dictated by executive fiat, they require the consent of highly motivated masses who will make the human and material sacrifices. Imperialist leaders have to create a visible and highly charged emotional sense of injustice and righteousness to secure national cohesion [...]

hat tip ~ SOTT
http://en.rian.ru/…
20/05/2008 19:36 (Adds details, Maksimov’s quote in paras 7-8)
SEVEROMORSK, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia’s Northern Fleet will dispatch ships and submarines on tours of duty to various regions of the world’s oceans in 2008, the fleet’s commander said on Tuesday.
“There will be tours of duty this year, involving surface ships, submarines [...]

http://www.reuters.com/…
Sun May 25, 2008 1:47pm EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s defense minister hailed his country’s “strategic ties” with Syria on Sunday, just days after Israel called on Damascus to distance itself from Tehran, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
Vote Marks Symbolic End Of Government’s Crisis
By Anthony Shadid and Alia Ibrahim
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, May 26, 2008; A12
BEIRUT, May 25 — Lebanon’s parliament elected the army commander, Gen. Michel Suleiman, as president Sunday, filling a post vacant for six months and bringing a symbolic if tenuous end to the country’s worst crisis since the [...]

http://blog.wired.com/…
Noah Shachtman

“The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the discovery was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines,” the Times of London and others report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/…
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press WriterSat May 24, 12:13 PM ET
If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply.

http://thinkprogress.org/…
Ben
Last Thursday, the House passed an amendment to the defense authorization bill mandating that the Defense Department and the GAO investigate the Pentagon’s propaganda program, which was first revealed by The New York Times on April 20. The Times reports today that the DoD inspector general has announced an investigation and GAO has already started [...]

http://www.upi.com/…
Published: May 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM
BEIJING, May 24 (UPI) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vowed Saturday to strengthen his country’s ties with China despite opposition to that alliance from others.

http://www.nytimes.com/…
By JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON — Sometime soon, a group of American corporate executives and military leaders will quietly sit down and divide Iraq into three parts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/…
By Michael Voss
BBC News, Havana
A group of Cuban dissidents has backed a call by the US presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, for direct talks with the new Cuban President, Raul Castro.