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US Steps Up Pressure On Russia By Stefan Steinberg

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Following intense pressure from the United States, the NATO meeting of foreign ministers held in Brussels on Tuesday issued a statement accusing Russia of “disproportionate” military force and the “deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure” in the conflict with Georgia

Beat The Dead Horse Or Putin’s Revenge By Gaither Stewart

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NATO-USA accuses Russia of invading small countries, Russia charges NATO for supporting the criminal regime of Georgia. While NATO and Russia both claim that their relations will never be the same again, Russian tanks roam around the Caucasus region as they please. Europe has received Putin’s message to the world loud and clear. The Russians are truly back

Are You Ready For Nuclear War? By Paul Craig Roberts

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It is obvious that American foreign policy, with its goal of ringing Russia with US military bases, is leading directly to nuclear war. Every American needs to realize this fact. The US government’s insane hegemonic foreign policy is a direct threat to life on the planet

The US Missile Defence System Is The Magic Pudding That Will Never Run Out By George Monbiot

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Poland is just the latest fall guy for an American foreign policy dictated by military industrial lobbyists in Washington

Poor Georgia! By Joseph M. Cachia

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As American military cargo planes start landing in Georgia and the U.S. naval forces arriving in Georgian ports on the so-called ‘humanitarian aid’ operation just one day after the hostilities ended, much faster than to Lousiana for the victims of Katrina, a lot of jaws dropped. Viewed in close relationship to the planned installation of the U.S. Missile Defence System in Poland and the radar system in the Czech Republic, many Georgians have been worried by Saakashvili’s tendency to portray western support as an excuse to provoke Russia. Even poor old Poland, not unlike the Czech Republic and the U.K., has fallen into the trap of becoming an American puppet

The Delusion Revolution: We’re on The Road To Extinction And In Denial By Robert Jensen

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Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive

Organized Crime Nation By Dave Eriqat

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I’ve got news for Americans, we’re living the fictions portrayed in The Godfather and The Sopranos! And the real life gangsters aren’t low class thugs, but are the captains of business and politics, the elites

Dangers Of Misplaced Opposition: Indo-US Nuclear Deal And The Indian Left By P.K. Sundaram

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Indian Left’s premising of its opposition in ‘national interest’ terms failed to resist the real implications of the deal – further dangerous undermining of the nonproliferation regime. While the deal in effect legitimizes and boosts India’s nuclear weapons capabilities, the Left’s contention that it hampered ‘sovereign’ indigenous nuclear programme proved to be a self-goal and was also inaudible to larger masses

Mystery Behind Aafia Siddiqi’s ‘Arrest’ Deepens By Zofeen Ebrahim

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Aafia’s resurfacing in Ghazni, five years after her disappearance in the southern port city of Karachi, has shaken the nation. The whereabouts of her three children, who were with her at the time she was kidnapped, remain unclear

A McCain Administration Could Result In More Wars In Middle East By Jason Leopold

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Although McCain insists he is no George W. Bush, his campaign is stacked with advisers who played key roles in shaping the Bush administration’s Middle East policies, including the disastrous plan to launch a preemptive strike against Iraq that has cost taxpayers nearly $1 trillion, resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 US soldiers, and hundreds of thousands Iraqi civilians

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