Eastern Massachusetts residents need not be alarmed this Wednesday, June 1st, by fighter jets overhead. According to the National Guard, F-15 Eagle fighter jets from the 104th Fighter Wing, Massachusetts National Guard in Westfield will participate in an Alert Force exercise from 10 a.m. to noon in the skies over Provincetown, Nantucket, Hyannis and Martha’s [...]
F-15 fighter jets to fly around Mass. during training mission Wednesday
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The Embassy Cables: French support for Brazil high
Dec. 15, 2010 1 Comment
PARIS — A 2009 memo from the US Embassy in Paris to the Secretary of State’s office released in the latest batch of Wikileaks documents, details French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s efforts to cultivate the rapport between Brazil and France by providing political, diplomatic, economic and military support to South America’s largest country. Wikileaks cable 09Paris1526, [...]
The Embassy Cables: Our friend Iran (in 1972)
Dec. 7, 2010 1 Comment
Well, we knew this already, but a Wikileaks-posted cable from the US Embassy in Tehran in 1972 shows how the United States rushed to arm the Shah’s Iran, concerned over Soviet interests in the area. The cable indicates that the state department urged the delivery of one of several squadrons of F-4 jets to Iran [...]
