* JAN OBERG – Sweden, Ground Zero of this soon to be new NATO territory. Mr. Oberg is co-founder of the Swedish-based Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research.  He just wrote the piece "Provocative NATO undermines security of the Nordic region," which states that Finland and Sweden joining NATO would mean abandoning the neutrality that served them well for so long. In other words, Sweden, along with Denmark and Norway will now have to accept foreign troops (similar to a permanent occupation) and pre-positioning of other people’s weapons on their territories. Yet, Iceland remains an un-armed member… providing the World War II-era Naval Keflavik Base.

* James Bamford has written extensively about the NSA and espionage – A topic close to the sensibility of everyone listening or watching Rethinking Heroes.  We’ve had veterans on this program from CIA spooks to World War II heroes… and all of them agree that any government overreach is not good in any country. He says that unnoticed among the trove of documents in the Pentagon leak that he reported on is an account of how a recent miscommunication between a Russian pilot and his base… came perilously close to starting World War III.

*Bonus: Mr. Bamford also discovered that the Israeli equivalent of the NSA was "eavesdropping on the Russians … who were, themselves, spying on the Clinton campaign and the DNC.  The Israelis… Our allies … that receive billions of dollars a year from us …. Decided not to give it to the president at the time - Obama… And instead, secretly gave it to the Trump campaign.”  Cary asks, “What would be the benefit for Israel to help Donald Trump become president?”

* Dan Harary is author of the original science-fiction novel ….After They Came … a book now heralded and embraced by over a dozen of America’s leading UFO Researchers and Experts. Harary has been a member of the Southern California Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network – MUFON – since 2003. Dan Harary has personally witnessed three UFO sightings in his life: one in 1970 in New Jersey with his father; one in 1996 near Edwards Air Force Base; one at Washington State’s E-CETI Ranch – a globally renowned UFO hotspot.

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