Found this while looking at INformed Comment for news on Election Day events in Iraq (which is not going well, surprise, surprise), and Cole linked to Project for a New American Century in a post about the resignation of Douglas Feith, who was initimately involved with Rebuilding America's Defenses
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I found this line in the Key Positions list in the Project for the New American Century description:
Among the key conclusions of PNAC's defense strategy document (Rebuilding America's Defenses) were the following [3] (http://www.fpif.org/papers/02men/box1_body.html):
* "Develop and deploy global missile defenses to defend the American homeland and American allies, and to provide a secure basis for U.S. power projection around the world." * "Control the new 'international commons' of space and 'cyberspace,' and pave the way for the creation of a new military service--U.S. Space Forces--with the mission of space control." * "Increase defense spending, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually." * "Exploit the 'revolution in military affairs' [transformation to high-tech, unmanned weaponry] to insure the long-term superiority of U.S. conventional forces."
The inclusion of "Cyberspace" as an area to bring "under control" caused me to click the link, where I was presented with a page that read something like "THis page has not yet been created." And I was presented also with an edit box, so I typed "Huh?" and now the link from cyberspace opened this page that said "Huh?", so I chnaged it to "Control Cyberspace? This is scary". I had read a couple of things on this in the past months, but not for a while. It fits the authoritarian, fundamentalist mind set of blocking free expressions, and labelling it as seditious.
Anyway, this is an intersting looking, Wiki-based project.
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