RES: Pax Americana (was Re: Defining Fascism)

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sat Jun 30 06:23:41 PDT 2001


CNN here says $4 Billion here. http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/14/russia.military/ (...The simmering war in Chechnya -- Russia's second military showdown with the breakaway Republic in five years -- is draining funds from a military budget, which has plummeted by about 75 percent from Soviet-era spending levels, to around $4 billion.

At about $4 billion, the budget is less than 3 percent of the country's total gross domestic product.)

Sent a query to David Johnson, who works at CDI, I think, to ask about the CDI #'ers that Yoshie cited.

Right-wing kooks at NewsMax.com (hey, Alex Cockburn has a column there ;-) say this, www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/2/12/173415.shtml

Heh, time for another Team B at the CIA, report! ... aspects of Soviet air defenses ... where the CIA dissented in ... near-term threat. If that ... members of Team B, many of ... the Committee on the Present Danger, went ... www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1993/a93/a93Teamb.html

See the Jerry Sanders book on CPD from South End Press, and, "The Fall and Rise of the Soviet Threat, " Alan Wolfe, Institute for Policy Studies pamphlet, circa '78 or so. www.google.com/search?q=Team+B+CIA+Soviet+Threat+Committee+on+The+Present+Da nger+ Michael Pugliese



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