U.S. Inching Up on Covert Attacks on Syrian Government

Top Washington officials are set to discuss striking positions of the Syrian military without a UN Security Council resolution. Bombing air force runways with missiles fired from coalition planes and ships is being considered, according to a report. 

 

"One proposed way to get around the White House’s objection to striking the Assad regime without a UN Security Council resolution would be to carry out the strikes covertly and without public acknowledgment,” one administration official who is to take part in the discussions told the Washington Post.

If Washington takes this 'covert' course it will pit the Pentagon and CIA directly against the Russian military that was invited into Syria by the government.  This would likely mean formal war.

Protest at Arctic Council Events in Portland

Today 25 of us gathered in Portland, Maine at noon to protest outside an event being held inside the Museum of Art by corporate entities promoting the coming possibilities of 'exploitation' of the Arctic region due to the escalating reality of climate change.

Maine's Sen. Angus King gathered some federal seed money to attract the Arctic Council's annual meeting in Portland.  All week various entities, including a couple of the big corporate legal firms, are holding events in conjunction with the Arctic Council's official meeting - which by the way is a secret meeting, no public citizens or even the media are allowed to attend.

I knew that Sen. King had gone on a US Navy nuclear submarine ride under the Arctic sea in 2014 and has been a big promoter of the idea of exploitation of the region - particularly for Maine.  While Sen. King does talk about climate change, and was once a proponent of wind turbines being put in the Gulf of Maine, he lately has shown much greater interest in development possibilities to 'take advantage' of melting ice as well as the militarization of the Arctic region.  In fact when I called into a statewide radio program he was on a couple of days ago he suggested I go protest in Moscow after I had commented on his participation in efforts to demonize Russia over control of the Arctic.

Also on the 2014 submarine ride was Adm. Jonathan Greenert, at that time the chief of naval operations.  In a New York Times Op-Ed by Thomas Friedman, Adm. Greenert said, “In our lifetime, what was [in effect] land and prohibitive to navigate or explore, is becoming an ocean, and we’d better understand it....We need to be sure that our sensors, weapons and people are proficient in this part of the world,” so that we can “own the undersea domain and get anywhere there.”

Our protest today was covered by a local TV station (CH 6) and Maine Public radio.  We made a couple key points:

What we need are national and international efforts to deal with climate change. We call for the immediate demilitarization of the Arctic. We can’t afford to turn the Arctic into a war zone, nor can we have a mad rush to drill for fossil fuels across the region. The Arctic Council should work to prevent these things from happening, not promote them. Thursday's protest was intended to show the Arctic Council and Sen. Angus King that the public is deeply concerned about climate change and is watching what they do. We also call for the conversion of the military industry complex so our tax dollars can be used to build commuter rail systems, solar power, wind turbines and tidal power systems.  Studies show that we'd get more jobs from building sustainable technologies which could help in a small way to deal with the coming ravages of climate change.  But we must act now to transform our fossil fuel dependent culture.  The public must speak out loudly now before it is too late!

At the protest I also talked about how Russia has the largest land border with the Arctic. One key reason why the US-NATO are pushing for regime change in Moscow is because the fossil fuel extraction corporations are itching to break Russia up into smaller countries so it would be easier for these oil interests to cut deals with weaker and more isolated nations to drill off their Arctic coasts.  Russia of course sees the writing on the wall and has defensively moved to ensure that the western pirates are not able to come and steal the treasure that was once inaccessible under the ice along their northern coastline.

Thanks to those who came out today to help direct some public attention onto this important issue.  Poco y poco.....

Bruce

Remember the History.....

Pumping Up War with Russia

Here is part of the CBS TV 60 Minutes program that ran two weeks ago pumping up the potential for war with Russia.

First they demonize Russia and lie about what really happened in Ukraine and Crimea.

They bring on the show recently retired NATO Commander Gen. Philip M. Breedlove who is a war hungry joker.  During and after the US coup d'etat in Ukraine Breedlove was repeatedly found by German media to be making highly provocative statements toward Russia.

Yesterday I found two articles reporting that Russia was holding a nuclear evacuation drill involving 40 million people across their country.  Obviously Russia feels they must be prepared as they witness the US camping out along their borders from one end of their country to the other.

This video continues the typical western media speculation where they imagine Russia will do this or that while attempting to appear as though the US is nothing more than an innocent law abiding bystander.

You'd never know watching this TV 'news' report that it is the US which continues to invade, bomb, and destabilize the world.  When a country like Russia reacts with defensive measures to protect themselves they are then demonized in order to prepare the American people for the next steps - which usually means a US 'shock and awe' invasion.

We forget what the US recently has done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria at our own peril.

I'm not in favor of any nuclear weapons in any country.  But let's be real here for a moment - what incentive does Russia or China have to reduce their nukes when the Pentagon's fist is pounding on their front and back doors?

Bruce

Syria - The U.S. Propaganda Shams Now Openly Fail

From Moon of Alabama

The Obama administration, and especially the CIA and the State Department, seem to be in trouble. They shout everything they can against Russia and allege that the cleansing of east-Aleppo of al-Qaeda terrorist is genocidal. Meanwhile no mention is ever made of the famine of the Houthis in Yemen which the U.S. and Saudi bombing and their blockade directly causes.

But more and more major news accounts support the Russian allegation that the "moderate rebels" the U.S. is coddling in Syria are actually in cahoots with al-Qaeda if not al-Qaeda itself.
Reuters reports (though only at the end of a longer story):

In Aleppo, rebels in the Free Syrian Army are sharing operational planning with Jaish al-Fatah, an alliance of Islamist groups that includes the former Syrian wing of al Qaeda. Meanwhile, in nearby Hama province, FSA groups armed with U.S.-made anti-tank missiles are taking part in a major offensive with the al Qaeda-inspired Jund al-Aqsa group.

The Wall Street Journal is more direct and headlining: Syria Rebels Draw Closer to al Qaeda-Linked Group

Some of Syria’s largest rebel factions are doubling down on their alliance with an al Qaeda-linked group, despite a U.S. warning to split from the extremists or risk being targeted in airstrikes.
...
Some rebel groups already aligned with Syria Conquest Front responded by renewing their alliance. But others, such as Nour al-Din al-Zinki, a former Central Intelligence Agency-backed group and one of the largest factions in Aleppo, pledged allegiance for the first time to the front in recent days.

Indeed the al.Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham announced publicly that the CIA's Nour el-Din Zinki and Suqour al-Sham joined its Jihad.

As little back as August the State Department defended Zinki after some of its member abducted a Palestinian boy from a hospital near Aleppo and beheaded him in front of a video camera:

[I]n State Department briefings, [..] spokesman Mark Toner downplayed the incidents, or the possibility that the US would stop arming Nour al-Din al-Zinki just because they beheaded a child..
...
Toner insisted [..] “one incident here and there would not necessarily make you a terrorist group.”

The new news reports follow after an interview by the German former politician and journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer with an al-Qaeda commander published in English on this site. The commander said that Nusra (aka al-Qaeda) were directly supplied, via a subgroup, with U.S. TOW missiles. He added about such groups:

They are all with us. We are all the al-Nusra Front. A groups is created and calls itself "Islamic Army", or "Fateh al-Sham". Each group has its own name but their believe is homogeneous. The general name is al-Nusra Front. One person has, for example, 2,000 fighters. Then he creates from these a new group and calls it "Ahrar al-Sham". Brothers, who's believe, thoughts and aims are identical to those of al-Nusra Front.

Another interview recently published by the former military Jack Murphy was with a Green Beret soldier who served in Turkey and Syria. The Green Berets are special forces of the U.S. Army. They are specialists in training and  fighting with indigenous guerrilla groups against governments the U.S. dislikes. The soldier interviewed was ordered to train "moderate Syrian rebels" in Turkey. Parts of the interview (paywalled) are quoted here:

"No one on the ground believes in this mission or this effort”, a former Green Beret writes of America’s covert and clandestine programs to train and arm Syrian insurgents, “they know we are just training the next generation of jihadis, so they are sabotaging it by saying, ‘Fuck it, who cares?’”. “I don’t want to be responsible for Nusra guys saying they were trained by Americans,” the Green Beret added.
...
Murphy states bluntly: “distinguishing between the FSA and al-Nusra is impossible, because they are virtually the same organization. As early as 2013, FSA commanders were defecting with their entire units to join al-Nusra. There, they still retain the FSA monicker, but it is merely for show, to give the appearance of secularism so they can maintain access to weaponry provided by the CIA and Saudi intelligence services. The reality is that the FSA is little more than a cover for the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra. ...

It is one thing when Russia says somesthing, but another when Reuters, WSJ, and independent German and U.S. subject experts report this as facts. The first can be shunned as "Putin lies" but the others are extremely hard to refute.

The Russians are right. The U.S. did not separate the "moderate rebels" from al Qaeda, as it had agreed to in the ceasefire agreement, because the "moderates" and al-Qaeda are the same. The "moderates" are al-Qaeda. This was not unknown. The 2012 Defense Intelligence Analysis said as much. The CIA of course knew this all along. But the Saudi tool heading the CIA, John Brennan, can not admit such as his masters in the Gulf are also the ones who finance al-Qaeda.

See the rest of this excellent article here 

More Space Week Photos

Protest at US NSA spy (and drone targeting) base called Pine Gap in the middle of Australia.  The US intercepts all phone, fax, email communications across the entire Asia-Pacific region from this base.

Space week protest at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  

Kirtland does research & development on directed energy beam weapons, lasers, microwave, rail guns and others technologies in the war to defend freedom and liberty for American corporations.  They want to put big killer lasers on aircraft next. In addition KAFB operates a special satellite control system for global war that also enables drone attacks around the world on a moment’s notice.  Kirtland houses one of the largest offensive cyber warfare centers that hacks into other nation’s computer systems. 

Activists in Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea translated our poster into Korean and distributed that version throughout their country.  

They added these words:  Keep Space for Peace Week. No THAAD, No Missile defense and No Jeju navy base. A week to stop the militarization of space 

Maine Peace Walk Pot Luck Supper & Program Schedule

Below is our nightly pot luck supper & program schedule for the 5th Maine Peace Walk entitled: Stop the War$ on Mother Earth 

The public is invited to attend any and all of these events. All suppers begin at 6:00 pm. The programs will last one hour following the supper.

For more information please contact globalnet@mindspring.com or call 207-443-9502

• Oct 11 Penobscot Nation on Indian Island 

• Oct 12 Indian Island to Dexter (First Universalist Church next to library on Rt 7) 

• Oct 13 Dexter to Pittsfield (164 Lancey St – white house) 

• Oct 14 Pittsfield to Unity (At MOFGA grounds) 

• Oct 15 Unity to Waterville ( Methodist church at 61 Pleasant St) 

• Oct 16 Waterville to Augusta (St. Mark’s Episcopal Church at 9 Summer St in Social Hall) 

• Oct 17 Augusta to Norway (First Universalist Church at 479 Main St) 

• Oct 18 Norway to Lewiston (Episcopal Church on corner of Bates St) 

• Oct 19 Lewiston to Brunswick (Unitarian Church on corner of Pleasant & Middle Sts across from library) 

• Oct 20 Day off in Brunswick (No supper – 3:00 pm vigil at BIW on Washington St in Bath during shift change) 

• Oct 21 Brunswick to Freeport ( Durham Friends Meeting House at 532 Quaker Meeting House Rd) 
• Oct 22 Freeport to Portland (State Street Church – UCC at 159 State St) 

• Oct 23 Portland to Saco ( First Parish Congregation Church on corner of Beech & Maine) 

• Oct 24 Saco to Kennebunk ( New School at 38 York Street) 

• Oct 25 Kennebunk to York Beach (52 Freeman St - Green house) 

• Oct 26 York Beach to Kittery Naval shipyard (Walk ends with 3:00 pm vigil at Naval shipyard gate on corner of Wentworth & Walker - Rice Public library on corner)

Report on Conference in Mauritius

Conference in Mauritius calling for the people of Diego Garcia to be allowed to return to their island home.

At 5:15 into the video you can hear statement in English by Maricela Guzman who was stationed at Diego Garcia while in the military.

Then at 6:30 you can hear Global Network board member J. Narayana Rao (Nagpur, India) also speaking English.  Rao was sent to the conference on behalf of the Global Network - the US is trying to bring the Indian government onside in its effort to militarily encircle China.

Space Week Event at BIW

Yesterday about 35 of us gathered in Bath, Maine for our Keep Space for Peace Week event in solidarity with others around the world.

At Bath Iron Works (BIW) the Navy Aegis destroyer is built that is outfitted with so-called 'missile defense' systems which are key elements in Pentagon first-strike attack planning.  The interceptor missiles on-board these ships are the 'shield' that would be used to knock out Russian or Chinese retaliatory strikes after a US first-strike.

In 2008 the Navy used an Aegis destroyer's interceptor missile to knock a failed US satellite out of the sky demonstrating that these systems could also serve a role as an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon.

We gathered in front of the BIW administration building and then walked down the street to a gate where workers filed out at noon from their weekend shift at the shipyard.

Once we were finished with the protest we all gathered at a local church for a pot luck lunch and rehearsal for the coming trial of the Zumwalt 12 who were arrested on June 18 for blocking the entrance to the 'christening' of the second Navy Zumwalt stealth destroyer.  Each of us made a statement of why we were arrested that day and the audience performed the role of the jury giving us feedback on our statements.

At the top of this post you can see the statement of Connie Jenkins. (Thanks to Lisa Savage for making the video.  See Lisa's full report on the event here.)

Bruce

Is This Our Future?

The Making of U.S. War Base on Diego Garcia

As Keep Space for Peace Week begins a conference is being held on Mauritius by the people removed from Diego Garcia by the Americans in order to take over the atoll for a US war base.

This is just one story amongst many showing how the US has destroyed the lives of people around the world in order to build the Pentagon imperial war machine.

Here are the conference details:

Port Louis, Mauritius (Oct 1-2) LALIT 2nd Action Conference called “Diego Garcia: 50 Years’ Occupation & Banishment, 50 Year’s Struggle”.  Topics include: The secret history of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia and its role as a key installation in the Air Force’s Satellite Control Network.  Contact: raj8@intnet.mu   

Sleep Walking Toward WW III

Here is a video about about why and how the madmen in the State Department, Pentagon and Congress are pushing us to the brink of war with Russia and Syria.

Can we begin to realize that virtually every bit of news, every word, that comes from the western media is a corporate war machine planted story?  They have one intention - to neutralize the public outrage and the peace movement and sell endless war.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen and Syria - it is all the same story! People must stop buying the endless lies.....

Bruce

Sunday Song

Washington Changes THAAD Deployment Site Plan

Message from South Korea:

In the morning of Sept. 30, the South Korea Ministry of National Defense notified that the ROK and US authorities decided the Lotte Skyhill golf club site for the deployment of the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile defense system.

The golf club site in Seongju is just next to Gimcheon and huge protests above all by the citizens of Seongju and Gimcheon and followers of Won Buddhism are expected.  The Won Buddhism has its sacred places close to the site.

The deployment of the THAAD in Korea is surely a hell gate which threatens peace in the Asia Pacific and World. 

Is it just coincident that tomorrow, Oct. 1 remembers the 73rd year of the ROK-US mutual defense treaty as well as the 70th National holiday for the Republic of Korea Armed Forces? 

As soon as the Ministry of National defense made a notice on it, it set up the wire-fence in front of its building area as if it is afraid of people's coming protests. 

THAAD should be withdrawn. Dangerous ROK-US-Japan war alliance should be stopped. Missile Defense (equals offense) should be stopped. 

Keep Space for Peace Week should be remembered!

Keep Space for Peace Week Begins Today

Ask the Native Americans: Washington always Breaks its Promises

Political commentator Marwa Osman talks to RT International on the latest developments in the Syrian crisis.

The thing that drives me most crazy is the phony outrage by the western media about the poor innocent civilians being killed in Syria.  Come on.....

Since when does the US-NATO give a damn about innocent civilians being killed - how about 'shock and awe' in Iraq? How about Washington's longest war in US history in Afghanistan? How about the carnage to civilians in Yemen by Saudi Arabia with total US support?  Did the western media ever demand apologies from Washington for killing legions of innocent people?  Never!

The US and its allies (Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, UK) are funding, arming, and directing ISIS in Syria and those terrorists are responsible for thousands of innocent deaths and hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing from Syria.

In fact the western media daily covers up their war crimes in Syria.

I have to come back to the wider US goal at work here - take down Syria as a step toward isolating and forcing regime change in Iran.

Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official told Radio Sputnik that:

Whereas the US policy is "all over the board," with a visible divide between the Department of Defense and the CIA. The CIA supports radical Islamists and the Department of Defense tries to kill them," he said.

"So it is just absurd that we are on the one hand talking about the tough game of fighting terrorism and yet behind the scenes providing financing and weapons to the same very terrorists," he told Sputnik. 

The former CIA officer also explained US' focus on Syria, and why it remains in the spotlight. "It is [all about] Iran, Iran is the critical factor determining the policy in the region. Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to a lesser extent, and Qatar and the Persian Gulf are very worried about the ascendance of Iran in the region, both politically and militarily. And that has been facilitated by the US invasion of Iraq in 2003," he said. 

Once Saddam Hussein was taken out of power, Johnson explained, the majority Shia population took control of the country. They have always had very close ties with Iran because many of the leaders of Iraq were sheltered in Iran during the previous years when Saddam Hussein was in power.

"What has been literally driving the US policy, this effort to try to contain Iran and to accommodate traditional US allies in the region without staying true to its policy of combating terrorism."

The US continues to play this hypocritical power game in Syria and uses the western media to hide the truth from the public.  The media utilizes a strategy, similar to the one used by US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, to counter attack and divert attention by calling Russian and Syrian attempts to actually fight terrorists "barbarism".

Washington wants to talk about barbarism!?  All it has to do is look in the mirror!

Bruce

A Conspiracy of Silence

U.S. Supporting Radical Terrorists in Syria

The US holds Russia responsible for the violence in Aleppo and is threatening to break off all cooperation with Moscow in Syria, the State Department said.

Russia is asking the US to live up to its obligation to separate the US-backed opposition from terrorists.

Former US diplomat Jim Jatras joins ‘News with Ed’ and says, “the Obama administration is supporting radical Islamic terrorism in Syria.”

You Have Been Putinized!

What?

You are defending Russia!?
You must
have been Putinized!
What is wrong
with you?
Don't you know
that Russia
is the cause
of every
calamity
that exists
in the world
today!?

You
must be
a commie
a Stalinist
a Leninist
a Putin
clone!

Why do you
blame
the US for
Iraq, Libya,
Syria?
Don't you know
Putin is to blame?

Wake up and
smell the Borscht

eat a hot dog
apple pie
wave an American flag

The Russians
are coming
Putin is Hitler
America
is exceptional
wake up!

OK....
I must have been
dreaming again
a bad dream....

for a moment
I thought
Washington
was trying to make
war
with Russia....

Bruce

Space Week Final Events List

October 1-8, 2016

Keep Space for Peace Week

International Week of Protest to

Stop the Militarization of Space

No Missile Defense

Stop Drones Surveillance & Killing

Stop the Endless Wars

No to NATO

End Corporate Domination of Foreign/Military Policy

Convert the Military Industrial Complex

Deal with climate change and global poverty

• Alice Springs, Australia (Oct 1) National Conference Pine Gap: Serving US Militarism for 50 Years – Time for Independence? Panels include: Pine Gap & US Base in Darwin, Security Threat to Australia?; War with China?; Mass surveillance; Nuclear and Drone warfare; Arms Manufacturers; Regional Arms race threat to peace. The Chifley, Alice Springs Resort, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm,  aspatt2016@gmail.com

• Alice Springs, Australia (Oct 2) Joint Cavalcade to gates of US Spy base at Pine Gap 9:00am - 12:00pm, aspatt2016@gmail.com

• Andover, Massachusetts (Oct 6) Vigil in front of Raytheon, 7am - 8am, 350 Lowell St.  Friends Meeting Lawrence, Merrimack Valley People for Peace. Contact: brian@quirk.ws 978-685-1389.

• Bath Iron Works, Maine (Oct 1) Vigil across from administration building on Washington Street (Navy Aegis destroyers outfitted with “missile defense” systems built at BIW) 11:30-12:30 am   Smilin’ Trees Disarmament Farm (207) 763-4062

• Berlin, Germany (Sept 30 – Oct 3) ‘Berlin Congress 'Disarm! for a Climate of Peace: Creating an Action Agenda’ at Technical University. Sponsored by IPB, WILPF, Pax Christi and others.    https://www.ipb2016.berlin/event/ipb-world-congress-berlin/

• Berlin, Germany (Oct 8) Nationwide demonstration Down with Weapons! Cooperation Instead of NATO Confrontation, Disarmament Instead of Welfare Cuts http://friedensdemo.org/aufruf-zur-demonstration-am-08-10-2016-in-berlin/

• Caracus, Venezuela (Oct 6) Protest by International Solidarity Committee (COSI), roso_grimau@yahoo.es

• Chandrapur, Mahrashstra State, India (Oct 7) Power Presentation on Space for Peace at Shantaram Pothdukhe Law College

• USAF Croughton, England (Oct 1) March & Rally at U.S. satellite communication and intelligence base. (Space communications, drones, bomber guidance, missile defence and command & control functions.)  12-3 pm. Oxfordshire Peace Campaign, oxonpeace@yahoo.co.uk

• Fort Meade, Maryland (Oct 8) The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore will go to the National Security Agency to protest illegal surveillance and its involvement in drone strikes at 11 AM.  We will be promoting a pardon for Edward Snowden.  Rides will be available. Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski at Verizon dot net

• Gangjeong, Jeju Island, South Korea (Oct 1-2) Distribution of leaflets about space week during the Jeju Peace festival  armha2013@gmail.com

• Gangjeong, Jeju Island, South Korea (Oct 7) A Concert in remembrance of US invasion of Afghanistan at Gangjeong Peace Center, Gangjeong village  armha2013@gmail.com

• Gangjeong, Jeju Island, South Korea (Oct 1 to 8) Picketing, educating, expressing solidarity with space week at Navy base where ‘missile defense’ systems will be ported onboard US Aegis destroyers  armha2013@gmail.com

• Gimcheon, South Korea (Oct 1-8) Nightly candlelight vigil against US deployment of THAAD ‘missile defense’ system near their community.

• Kiruna, Sweden (Oct 8) Women for Peace will organize a manifestation in the centre of town against drones. evannakristin@gmail.com

• Port Louis, Mauritius (Oct 1-2) LALIT 2nd Action Conference called “Diego Garcia: 50 Years’ Occupation & Banishment, 50 Year’s Struggle”.  Topics include: The secret history of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia and its role as a key installation in the Air Force’s Satellite Control Network.  Contact: raj8@intnet.mu

• Digapahandi, Orissa State, India (Oct 4) Seminar at Bijoy Patnak, Government Women's College, Mr. Haraprasad Rath, Organiser  ratha.haraprasad@gmail.com

• Digapahandi, Orissa State, India (Oct 6) Demonstration and Discussion at Chaamundi College, Mr. Haraprasad Rath, Organiser  ratha.haraprasad@gmail.com

• Fairbanks, Alaska (Oct 8) F-35 is a theft! Direct action at Eielson Air Force Base. The protest will focus on our local governments' addiction to militarism as a tool for economic development with a special focus on the plan to station two squadrons of F-35s here. Contact: 907-687-6606 or mulford.rob@gmail.com

• Fresno, California (Oct 7) Tabling & leafletting at CSUF Cineculture Film Class ilsasso2003@yahoo.com

• RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, England (Oct 1) Demonstrate against US Missile Defence and space-based warfare, 12-3 pm, Yorkshire CND  info@yorkshirecnd.org.uk   

• King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (Oct 8)  Brandywine Peace Community will hold  an anti-war 'REACH-OUT' to our neighbors.  Lockheed Martin, 230 Mall Boulevard (corner of Mall and Goddard Boulevards, behind the King of Prussia Mall) Noon – 2 pm. Lockheed Martin is the world's #1 war (including killer drones) and nuclear weapons profiteer.  Nuclear weapons and use are still the central threat of U.S. global empire.  Music by Tom Music. Come with a whole lotta noise and love for people and the planet in the face of the presidential election madhouse. For more information: call (610) 544-1818, www.brandywinepeace.com/events.

• Kirtland AFB, New Mexico (Oct 1) Protest at Gibson @ Truman Street SE from 10 am to Noon. Kirtland does Research & development on directed energy beam weapons, lasers, microwave, rail guns and others technologies in the war to defend freedom and liberty for American corporations.  They want to put big killer lasers on aircraft soon. In addition KAFB operates a special satellite control system for global war that also enables drone attacks around the world on a moment’s notice.  Kirtland houses one of the largest offensive cyber warfare centers that hacks into other nation’s computer systems. Sponsored by Stop War Machine and others. citizen@comcast.net

• Maine Peace Walk (Oct 11-26) Stop the War$ on Mother Earth, Penobscot Nation on Indian Island to Kittery Naval Submarine shipyard in Kittery, More info at  http://vfpmaine.org/

• Menwith Hill, England (Oct 4) Demonstration at U.S. NSA/NRO Spy Base in Yorkshire.  Sponsored by CAAB   mail@caab.corner.org.uk

• Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (Oct. 5) At the weekly peace vigil on a bridge spanning the Mississippi River between Minneapolis/St. Paul, Women Against Military Madness will hold signs about stopping the provoking of Russia and China. From 5:00-6:00 p.m. during rush hour traffic.  On Oct. 8 a coalition of peace groups in the Twin Cities will rally with a focus on Afghanistan because it is the 15th anniversary of the U.S. war on that country; there is sure to be an anti-drone presence.  beaudmj@gmail.com

• Nagpur, India (Oct 2) Dharna (Squatting Demonstration)  J. Narayana Rao, Coordinator jnrao193636@gmail.com

• Nagpur, India (Oct 6) An awareness program "Know the danger of Weaponisation of Space" at National College of Social Work  jnrao193636@gmail.com

• Nagpur, India (Oct 7) Demonstration to protest against the Weaponisation of Space by the US. Held at Matrusewa Sangh Institute of Social Work.  jnrao193636@gmail.com

• Nagpur, India (Oct 8) A joint demonstration by Progressive Railway Women's Organisation, S.E.C. Railway Pensioners organisation and Global Network to warn the government of India not to fall into trap of US to join the weaponisation of program.  jnrao193636@gmail.com

• New Haven, Connecticut (Sept 30) Community vigil and leafletting in front of New Haven City Hall; 12 noon, organized by the Greater New Haven Peace Council  amistadmarder@gmail.com

• Newport, Rhode Island (Oct 5) Vigil at Gate One of the Naval War College in Newport, RI. on from noon – 1:00 pm. Strict non-violence expected. Holding you all in the Light.

• Niscemi, Sicily (Oct 2) Protest march at US space warfare communications base by No MUOS campaign sadhusan@virgilio.it

• Novara, Italy (Oct 2) Protest near the Cameri Air Base where F-35 planes are provided operating support throughout Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.  Protest organized by No MUOS and No F-35.  sadhusan@virgilio.it

• Regina, Canada (Oct 8) Panel discussion against Canada joining the U.S. ballistic missile "defence" system. The venue is Meeting Room 208, Research and Innovation Center, University of Regina at 2 p.m. Speakers include: David Gehl, Dr. Stephen Moore, and Dr. William Stahl. Sponsors: Regina Peace Council, Making Peace Vigil, and PeaceQuest Regina. Info contact: Ed Lehman 306-718-8010 or edrae1133@gmail.com

• San Francisco, California (Oct. 9) Bay Area CODEPINK Monthly Peace Walk on the Golden Gate Bridge.  Stop Drone Surveillance & Killing: Shut Down Beale AFB & Shut Down Creech AFB. Noon-2pm, Rally & March on the Bridge.   ratherbenyckeling@comcast.net   

• Santa Rosa, California (Oct 10) Lynda Williams, SRJC Physics Faculty presenting ‘The Gold Rush in Space: The Risks of Mining Asteroids’, Noon – 1:00 pm in Newman Auditorium, Emeritus Hall, Santa Rosa Junior College lyndalovon@gmail.com

• Seattle, Washington (October; Dates TBD) Leafleting against the Trident nuclear weapons system, at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor and communities around Puget Sound. Contact Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (gzcenter.org) at info@gzcenter.org

• Seongju, South Korea (Oct 1-8) Nightly candlelight vigil against US deployment of THAAD ‘missile defense’ system near their community.

• Stockholm, Sweden (Oct 5) 12.00-13.00. Standing demonstration close to Swedish Parliament with banner "Drones kill". Handing out leaflets. Women for Peace, Swedish Peace Committée, Swedish Peace Council.  lappland.norberg@gmail.com

• Sunnyvale, California (Sept 26) Vigil at Lockheed-Martin (Fifth Street & L-M Way) at noon.  Lockheed profits from war. Its web site lists over 400 products designed to meet the needs of today's “warfighter.” These range from Hellfire, PAC­3 and Javelin missiles the F16, 22, 35 and 117 fighters, military satellites, integrated defense systems, and dispensers for cluster bombs. Sponsored by Pacific Life Community. ehmke@stanford.edu

• Syracuse, New York (Oct 4) Special "Keep Space for Peace Week" Street Heat outside Hancock Air National Guard Base (a training center for drone operators and a site for piloting drones over Afghanistan). Street Heat is a small demonstration we have Tuesdays from 4:15-5pm at locations throughout the Syracuse area. Also we'll put out the poster and info via our 1800+ person listserv and social media. Sponsored by the Syracuse Peace Council.  carol@peacecouncil.net

• Tucson, Arizona (Oct 4) Peace vigil against drones piloting at Davis-Monthan AFB, Craycroft Road entrance, 7:00am Contact nukeresister@igc.org  or 520-323-8697

• Tucson, Arizona (Oct 4) Speech by John LaForge ‘Dangerous, Useless, Expensive: Why Eliminate Land-Based Missiles’ at Himmel Library (1035 N. Treat Ave), Contact nukeresister@igc.org  or 520-323-8697

• Vadso, Norway (Oct 10-11) National conference called ‘Military Intelligence as a democratic blind zone’.  Event will discuss NSA-cooperation with Norway 1952-2016. In Vadsø is a huge US space Communications-Intelligence station near the Russian border. Event held at Scandic Vadso Hotel.  For more information contact torill@formidlingskraft.no 
• Vandenberg AFB, California (Oct 5) Keep Space for Peace vigil at space warfare base at the Main Gate from 3:45 pm to 4:45 pm.  For info contact me at jdapel@yahoo.com  or at (805) 249-3796.

• Volk Field, Camp Douglas, Wisconsin (Sept 27) Vigil Against Drones 3:30-4:30, Gates of Volk Field, an Air National Guard Base where they train personnel to operate the Shadow Drone. The monthly vigil at Volk Field is a legal vigil where we will be on public property.  It will be a solemn vigil, remembering the victims of US drone attacks. For information joyfirst5@gmail.com  or blbb24@att.ne

• Pentagon, Washington DC (Sept 26) 9:00 a.m. Nonviolent Action at Pentagon. Our gathering will begin outside The Pentagon near the top of the Metro subway escalators (the Pentagon stop) next to the bus bay. Bring your signs and banners and join our spirited nonviolent witness against war! We will also be delivering to the Pentagon a petition to close Ramstein Air Base in Germany, as U.S. whistleblowers and Germans together deliver it to the German government in Berlin. http://worldbeyondwar.org/

• Pentagon, Washington DC (Oct 3) Weekly Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Peace Vigil (7-8 AM) will display Keep Space for Peace signs.  artlaffin@hotmail.com

• White House, Washington DC (Oct 7) Weekly Dorothy Day Catholic Worker White House Peace Vigil (Noon-1PM) will display Keep Space for Peace Signs) artlaffin@hotmail.com