Is there a 'Plan B' for U.S. efforts in Afghanistan? - CNN.com

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released on September 15 indicated that 39 percent of Americans favor the war in Afghanistan, with 58 percent opposed to the mission.

Support is down from 53 percent in April, marking the lowest level since the start of the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan soon after the September 11, 2001, attacks

Is there a 'Plan B' for U.S. efforts in Afghanistan? - CNN.com

U.S. scraps missile defense shield plans

NO TO WAR ! Thank you, Mr. President Obama! No missile shield costly war preparations in Europe. Now Russia will not deploy it's missiles in Kaliningrad either. Stop the mad expensive wrong republican right wing war empire war games, war preparations, war colonial aggressions! PEACE! If it goes like this, Russia may not deploy missiles in Venezuela

U.S. scraps missile defense shield plans - CNN.com

US credit shrinks at Great Depression rate prompting fears of double-dip recession

"There has been nothing like this in the USA since the 1930s. The rapid destruction of money balances is madness." US bank loans have fallen at an annual pace of almost 14% in the 3 months to August 09 (from $7,147bn to $6,886bn).. For the first time in the post- World War II era, we have deflation in credit, wages and rents and this is a toxic brew.It is unclear why the US Federal Reserve has allowed this to occur.

US credit shrinks at Great Depression rate prompting fears of double-dip recession - Telegraph

Russia and Poland trade insults on 70th anniversary of World War Two. Eastern Europe drawn apart? The history.

THE DIGNITY OF CEREMONIES TO MARK THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN POLAND IS BEING MARRED BY FURIOUS SPATS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND 4 EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES OVER THEIR RESPECTIVE WARTIME ROLES.

Russian media has aired a string of accusations against Poland, claiming that Warsaw intended to collaborate with Hitler in an invasion of the Soviet Union, and that Jozef Beck, Poland's foreign minister in 1939, was a German agent.

Moscow broadcasters have also claimed that there was a "German hand" in the 1940 Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish PoWs, an atrocity generally held to have been the exclusive work of Stalin's secret police.

On the morning, 4:45 am, of September 1, 1939, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein ushered in WWII when it opened fire on the 180-strong Polish contingent stationed on Westerplatte

contentious Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, signed between Stalin and Hitler in August 1939. A pact of mutual non-aggression that lasted until 1941, it allowed Russia to invade and annexe Eastern Poland.

Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, also labelled attempts in the Baltic states, which were also invaded under the pact's terms, to equate Hitler with Stalin as a "cynical lie".

An open letter yesterday from Mr Putin, in which he appeared to strike a more conciliatory note.

"Our duty is to remove the burden of distrust and prejudice left from the past in Polish-Russian relations," wrote Mr Putin, who went on to describe the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact as "immoral", and also thanked Poland "from the bottom of my heart" for the 600,000 Poles who fought on the Eastern Front under Red Army command.

Russia and Poland trade insults on 70th anniversary of World War Two - Telegraph