Defense Department officials have told Congress that the already
ballooning costs of the F-35 joint strike fighter are likely to soar
much higher when new estimates are completed in the summer.

WASHINGTON - Only one in nine
hours billed by a contractor for running the giant military bases that
house U.S. soldiers in Iraq in the first half of 2009 was for actual
physical labour, according to new testimony by the Pentagon's auditors.

When the Ministry of Defence first came across
Wikileaks, staffers were stunned. "There are thousands of things on
here, I literally mean thousands," one of them wrote in an internal email
in November 2008. "Everything I clicked on to do with MoD was
restricted...

The US president, Barack Obama, and Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian
leader, today signed an arms treaty that will slash their respective
nuclear arsenals by a third.

One of the world’s foremost educators on Peak Oil, Richard Heinberg, in an exclusive interview for MMNews: “We are currently seeing the end of economic growth as we have known it.” Further on, he talks about the financial / economic crisis, monetary changes vis-à-vis a shrinking energy supply, and the Century of Declines: “Peak Everything.”

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? "- Bertolt Brecht --- CONTENT ---- The
pug Zemmour and latrinesque Besson, Mr. Silberstein, page 3 ---- Made of winter, Raynaud
JM, page 4 ---- A strike may lead to another, by Julien, page 5 ---- Short and not good,
page 6 ---- The cross and so, by N.

Democracy Now! 2010-04-08 Thursday

• Headlines for April 08, 2010
• EXCLUSIVE: One Day After 2007 Attack, Witnesses Describe US Killings of Iraqi Civilians
• Despite Landmark Arms Reduction Treaty With Russia, Iran Threats and Nuclear Posture Review Raise Doubts of Significant U.S. Shift
• Is the CIA Assassination Order of a U.S.