Thursday, NASA administrator and former Secretary of the Navy Sean O'Keefe addressed the National Press Club about "NASA's Strategic Plan."
Director of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, Alice Slater
said: "NASA's strategic plan involves the acceleration of militarizing space. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers was head of U.S. Space Command when it published its 1998 'Visions for 2020' report which talked of 'dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect U.S. interests and investment.' In January 2001 the space commission chaired by Donald Rumsfeld affirmed the same vision - to dominate the globe from the high ground of space - with the official imprimatur of an incoming Secretary of Defense.... It's particularly troubling that this strategic plan is being announced only days before the convening of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting in Geneva." Slater will be going to Geneva for that conference. She added: "The U.S. is sabotaging global disarmament. Hopes for meaningful progress towards nuclear disarmament have been shattered, particularly by the shameless grab to dominate space."
A PDF file of "Visions for 2020" is at: http://www.gsinstitute.org/resources/extras/vision_2020.pdf
and the Rumsfeld space commission report is at:
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/space20010111.html
ALICE SLATER, aslater@gracelinks.org,
http://www.gracelinks.org/nuke/starwars/
Director of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space,
Gagnon said today: "Immediately after his appointment by George W. Bush,
O'Keefe told the nation that all of NASA's missions in the future would be
'dual use.' This of course means that the distinction between civilian and
military technologies will be rubbed out. The military takeover of the
space program is near complete."
BRUCE GAGNON, globalnet@mindspring.com,
http://www.space4peace.org
Professor at the State University of New York, Grossman is author of "The
Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet." He said
today: "At all of our peril, O'Keefe is moving to expand NASA's program of
using nuclear power in space - including reviving the decades-old notion of building nuclear-powered spacecraft. What if the Columbia shuttle had been nuclear-powered? Nuclear debris would have spread over Texas and Louisiana. Still, two days after the Columbia tragedy, NASA advanced its new $3 billion space nuclear program, Project Prometheus. It is being pushed despite the development of new safe space energy systems, including solar-electric propulsion and solar sails."
KARL GROSSMAN, kgrossman@hamptons.com,
http://www.fair.org/extra/writers/grossman.html
For more information, contact Sam Husseini or David Zupan at the
Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
Please also see:
Constant Conflict
"There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing."
A look behind the philosophy and practice of America's push for domination of the world's economy and culture.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3011.htm
and
American troops massacre Iraqi protesters in Mosul
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/mosu-a16.shtml
A revealing glimpse of Washington's "free and democratic Iraq"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/iraq-a18.shtml
For the People on the Streets, This is not Liberation but a New Colonial Oppression, Published on Thursday, April 17, 2003 by the lndependent/UK
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0417-02.htm
Director of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, Alice Slater
said: "NASA's strategic plan involves the acceleration of militarizing space. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers was head of U.S. Space Command when it published its 1998 'Visions for 2020' report which talked of 'dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect U.S. interests and investment.' In January 2001 the space commission chaired by Donald Rumsfeld affirmed the same vision - to dominate the globe from the high ground of space - with the official imprimatur of an incoming Secretary of Defense.... It's particularly troubling that this strategic plan is being announced only days before the convening of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting in Geneva." Slater will be going to Geneva for that conference. She added: "The U.S. is sabotaging global disarmament. Hopes for meaningful progress towards nuclear disarmament have been shattered, particularly by the shameless grab to dominate space."
A PDF file of "Visions for 2020" is at: http://www.gsinstitute.org/resources/extras/vision_2020.pdf
and the Rumsfeld space commission report is at:
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/space20010111.html
ALICE SLATER, aslater@gracelinks.org,
http://www.gracelinks.org/nuke/starwars/
Director of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space,
Gagnon said today: "Immediately after his appointment by George W. Bush,
O'Keefe told the nation that all of NASA's missions in the future would be
'dual use.' This of course means that the distinction between civilian and
military technologies will be rubbed out. The military takeover of the
space program is near complete."
BRUCE GAGNON, globalnet@mindspring.com,
http://www.space4peace.org
Professor at the State University of New York, Grossman is author of "The
Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet." He said
today: "At all of our peril, O'Keefe is moving to expand NASA's program of
using nuclear power in space - including reviving the decades-old notion of building nuclear-powered spacecraft. What if the Columbia shuttle had been nuclear-powered? Nuclear debris would have spread over Texas and Louisiana. Still, two days after the Columbia tragedy, NASA advanced its new $3 billion space nuclear program, Project Prometheus. It is being pushed despite the development of new safe space energy systems, including solar-electric propulsion and solar sails."
KARL GROSSMAN, kgrossman@hamptons.com,
http://www.fair.org/extra/writers/grossman.html
For more information, contact Sam Husseini or David Zupan at the
Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
Please also see:
Constant Conflict
"There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing."
A look behind the philosophy and practice of America's push for domination of the world's economy and culture.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3011.htm
and
American troops massacre Iraqi protesters in Mosul
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/mosu-a16.shtml
A revealing glimpse of Washington's "free and democratic Iraq"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/iraq-a18.shtml
For the People on the Streets, This is not Liberation but a New Colonial Oppression, Published on Thursday, April 17, 2003 by the lndependent/UK
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0417-02.htm