[Texgreen] Canada's media elites cover up U.S. take-over of Canadian military

[margaret]

"This U.S military take-over has certain underlying obligations and
commitments.  . . . If Canada accepts to join NORTHCOM and integrate
U.S. command structures, itnot only "promises to cherish" Star Wars, it=20=

also
becomes an official member of a crypto-fascistic Anglo-American military
axis, integrated by Israel (unofficially) and Australia."


The Canadian - Sep 26, 2006
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2006/09/26/01232.html

Canada's media elites cover up U.S. take-over of Canadian military

Traitors among us cover up the Continental assimilation of
Military Command Structures as a Threat to Canada's Sovereignty

by Michel Chossudovsky

The issue of continental integration of military command structures has=20=

been
on the US-Canada agenda since April 2002. This issue has been has
substantively covered-up by the elites who now own Canada's mass-media.

Territorial control over Canada is part of Washington's geopolitical and
military agenda as formulated in April 2002 by U.S. Defense Secretary=20
Donald
Rumsfeld. "Binational integration" of military command structures is=20
also
contemplated alongside a major revamping in the areas of immigration,=20
law
enforcement and intelligence.

Since 2002, Ottawa has been quietly negotiating a far-reaching military
cooperation agreement. In November 2004, *Global Research* published a
detailed article on the subject, an abridged version of which was=20
accepted
for publication as an Op Ed piece in the Toronto Star. That article=20
never
appeared in print. More generally, the Canadian media has failed to=20
provide
coverage of an issue which strikes at the heart of Canada's territorial
sovereignty.

What the current news coverage fails to acknowledge is that the US=20
Military
can cross the border and deploy troops anywhere in Canada, in our=20
provinces,
as well station American warships in Canadian territorial waters. This
redesign of Canada's defense system has for the last four years been
discussed behind closed doors, not in Canada, but at the Peterson Air=20
Force
base in Colorado, at the headquarters of US Northern Command (NORTHCOM).

The creation of NORTHCOM announced in April 2002, constitutes a blatant
violation of both Canadian and Mexican territorial sovereignty. Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced unilaterally that US Northern=20
Command
would have jurisdiction over the entire North American region. Canada=20
and
Mexico were presented with a fait accompli. US Northern Command's
jurisdiction as outlined by the US DoD includes, in addition to the
continental US, all of Canada, Mexico, as well as portions of the=20
Caribbean,
contiguous waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans up to 500 miles=20
off the
Mexican, US and Canadian coastlines as well as the Canadian Arctic.

NORTHCOM's stated mandate according to the Canadian American Strategic
Review (CASR) is to "provide a necessary focus for [continental]=20
aerospace,
land and sea defenses, and critical support for [the] nation's civil
authorities in times of national need."

Rumsfeld is said to have boasted that "the NORTHCOM - with all of North
America as its geographic command - 'is part of the greatest=20
transformation
of the Unified Command Plan [UCP] since its inception in 1947.'" (Ibid)

In my "censored" Toronto Star article, I had warned that the process of
Bi-National Integration implying the integration of military command
structures was slated to be completed in May 2006:

"What we are dealing with is a "military marriage' characterized by the
integration of the two countries' command structures.

Missile Defense is part of "the vows" of this "military marriage",=20
something
which nobody in Canada wants to talk about.

This U.S military take-over has certain underlying obligations and
commitments.

If Canada accepts to join NORTHCOM and integrate U.S. command=20
structures, it
not only "promises to cherish" Star Wars, it also becomes an official=20
member
of a crypto-fascistic Anglo-American military axis, integrated by Israel
(unofficially) and Australia.

Canada thereby becomes a pro-active partner in America's on-going
crypto-fascistic military adventures, including Iraq, Afghanistan,
Palestine, Iran, North Korea and beyond, not to mention the preemptive=20=

use
of nuclear weapons in conventional war theaters directed "against rogue
enemies and terrorists".

Shortly prior to the Bush-Martin meetings in Ottawa in November 2004,=20
it was
decided to extend the Binational Planning Group arrangement until May=20
2006.
In other words, what is really at stake is the process leading up to a
formal announcement of Canada's accession to NORTHCOM, prior to the May=20=

2006
cut-off date."

Canada's accession to NORTHCOM is being formally implemented under the
mandate of the Prime Minister Harper government.

[Michel Chossudovsky is the author of the international best America's=20=

"War
on Terrorism". He is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa=20=

and
Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization.]


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