29 May, 2009

‘Women’s Rights’ in Afghanistan – Code for Occupation
New America Media – Los Angeles,CA,USA
Despite more than seven years of US and NATO occupation, the members of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) must still use…
news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?
article_id=5293dcc3aceffde7a32d43caf64d4b59

Sri Lanka Guardian: Why Taliban attacked ISI at Lahore?
By Sri Lanka Guardian
The Neo Taliban is active against the US-led NATO forces in Afghan territory from sanctuaries in Pakistan, but it has never been involved in an act of terrorism in Pakistani territory against Pakistani targets----whether from the Army …
www.srilankaguardian.org/2009/05/
why-taliban-attched-isi-at-lahore.html

Euro Force, NATO Overlap | News Updated Frequently
By Bookyards
From Washington Times:Partners or competitors?BRUSSELS | The emergence of a European Union force, separate from NATO, could lead to a drastic overhaul in the international security landscape as the two compete for scarce defense …
updatedfrequently.com/euro-force-nato-overlap

Classics in Contemporary Culture: Classics in Contemporary Politics
By Mischa Hooker
FYROM or Republic of Macedonia? Does Greece own the rights to the name“Macedonia”? Did Alexander the Great speak a Slavic language? The “name dispute” has caused riots, and has so far stymied the country’s desire to enter NATO.
semperegoauditor.typepad.com/ccc/2009/
05/classics-in-contemporary-politics.html

War News Updates: Euro Force, NATO Overlap
By Bookyards
BRUSSELS | The emergence of a European Union force, separate from NATO, could lead to a drastic overhaul in the international security landscape as the two compete for scarce defense resources, analysts and officials say.…
warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2009/05/euro-force-nato-overlap.html

US Out of Step on Cluster Bomb Ban | Human Rights Watch
By Human Rights Watch
A total of 96 countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions since December 2008, including 20 of the 28 NATO members. Thirty-five countries that have stockpiled cluster munitions have signed the treaty.…
www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/05/29/us-out-step-cluster-bomb-ban

Afghanistan – US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 615 (AP …
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) – NATO and Afghan police attacked a gathering point for Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan’s southeastern Paktika province, and killed 34, a spokesman for the provincial governor said on Thursday. …
globalnewsblog.com/blog/2009/05/28/afghanistan-us-
military-deaths-in-afghanistan-region-at-615-ap-via-yahoo-news/

West Plots To Supplant United Nations With Global NATO “ The …
By Verndewd
I usually dont post from Rons sources since he found it but this one needed attention. bear in mind nato is the globalized militant NWO faction and asserting that it take active precedence over the UN decision making is like watching …
theruthlesstruth.com/wordpress/?p=1341

Tribune “ Blog Archive “ Poland to house US base
By admin
As far as the Russian elite is concerned, a US-inspired cordon sanitaire– in the form of a belt of Nato member-states – has appeared along the western borders of the Russian Federation and is threatening to expand into Ukraine. …
www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/05/28/poland-to-house-us-base/

Combined Maritime Forces Works With International Navies to …
CMF, EU and NATO forces integrate their operations ashore as well as at sea in order to deconflict international efforts between Combined Task Force (CTF) 151 warships and other navies who have deployed forces to the region.…
www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=45731

Obama Protested In Beverly Hills: Lt. Choi Gives Speech On Gay …
By The Huffington Post News Team
Tell me, then, why is America fighting alongside with its NATO allies in the Middle East and elsewhere when many of those nations have had gays openly serving next to Americans in combat and support? You should do the right thing (as …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/
obama-protested-in-beverl_n_208509.html

Sri Lanka’s sacrifice of life may sow seeds of a new conflict
Times Online – UK
Perhaps Nato officers in Afghanistan are too. Sri Lanka is far smaller, with very different terrain, and its 26-year civil war with the Tamil Tigers was …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6383470.ece

28 May, 2009

Macedonia’s DUI Gives Deadline For NATO :: BalkanInsight.com
The ruling ethnic Albanian party in Macedonia has given a deadline to its bigger coalition partner to solve the burning name row with Greece and move the country’s stalled Euro Atlantic integration forward by the end of the year.
balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/19455/

West Plots To Supplant United Nations With Global NATO “ Unminds …
By fma7
“A comparison of the mandates of the United Nations and of NATO shows clearly how opposed the purposes of these two institutions are. In the 63 years of its existence, the United Nations mandate has remained the same.…
fma7.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/west-plots
-to-supplant-united-nations-with-global-nato/

AMR Research Releases its 2009 Supply Chain Top 25
By Prne
February 19th, 2009 KRAKOW – Kyrgyzstan’s decision to close an airbase used by the US to lift supplies to its troops in Afghanistan ‘will have not direct effect’ on NATO, an official said. The Manas base in Kyrgyzstan is used by the US …
blog.taragana.com/pr/amr-research-
releases-its-2009-supply-chain-top-25-2595/

John Brown’s Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review, Version 2.0 …
By John Brown
How do you feel NATO handled the transition into a post-cold war era? The end of the cold war faced NATO with an awkward scenario where the classic enemy had apparently vanished. … The present situation implies handling an environment …
publicdiplomacypressandblogreview.
blogspot.com/2009/05/may-28.html

Is Peter MacKay Leaving the Conservative Party? – Digital Journal …
Leaving for a position in NATO, for example, would allow him to escape the possible mess of a Conservative Party reeling after its loss of power and of its strong and tight-fisted leader. Earlier this year, The Hill Times reported on a …
www.digitaljournal.com/article/273247

Salfordonline Editor’s Choice
intergovernmental organization is the Executing Agent for the NATO Trust Fund programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In partnership with the Ministry of Defence, it carries out projects for the resettlement of former military personnel. …
www.salfordonline.com/editorschoice.
php?func=viewdetails&vdetails=13254

RADIO MAKEDONSKA KAFANA
By Mission Statement
“If we had to choose between Alexander and joining the EU and NATO, we’d choose Europe,” says Goran Nikolovski. “History is in the past,” says his colleague Zlatko Petreski. “We want the name of the country to remain Macedonia because …
mkkafana.blogspot.com/2009/05/httpmacedoniaonline.html

Battling the Germans by bike | GlobalPost
By Paul Ames
On 60th anniversary, NATO faces its biggest test. Teri Schultz – Diplomacy– April 3, 2009 15:02 ET. The fight against the Taliban will overshadow the alliance’s 60th anniversary celebrations. …
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/benelux/
090528/battling-the-germans-bike

Nigeria: House Fails to Reconcile Dangote, Otedola – AllAfrica.com …
By Jimmy
For the US and Nato, Pakistan was once an appendage to their Afghan policy. Now it is their major concern. There can also be no long-term solution to militancy without eliminating the command and control centres of the militants in Fata …
dignewsinfo.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/nigeria-
house-fails-to-reconcile-dangote-otedola-allafrica-com/

Stopwar.ca: Amnesty: ‘indiscriminate use of air strikes’
By Dave Markland
NATO and US forces continued to hand over detainees to the NDS, Afghanistan’s intelligence service, which perpetrates human rights violations including torture and arbitrary detention with impunity…
(link) …
stopwarblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/
amnesty-indiscriminate-use-of-air.html

US and Russian warships line up in dispute over Georgia …
Germany and France, who opposed the US and Britain in April in blocking Georgian negotiations to join Nato, have been the most reluctant to punish Russia for the Georgian conflict of the past three weeks and are desperate to try to …
blacklistednews.com/?news_id=4340

West plots to supplant United Nations with Global NATO
Media Monitors Network – CA,USA
At that time in 1999 the NATO alliance was waging what would become a 78-day bombing war against Yugoslavia in flagrant contravention of the United Nations …
usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/62721

Longer NATO Air Role Seems Likely for Baltics
DefenseNews.com (subscription) – USA
By andrew chuter LONDON – NATO air forces may have to continue providing air policing over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania well beyond 2020 because the Baltic …
www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4112709&c=AIR&s=TOP

West Plots To Supplant United Nations With Global NATO by Rick …
By The Ed
The first indication that the United Nations was marked for
marginalization, selective application (and exploitation) or even de facto dissolution, however, occurred three years earlier in 1996 when the United States single-handedly …
www.creative-i.info/?p=7152

Pakistan and the “AfPak” strategy | open Democracy News Analysis
Washington is reliant on implementing policy through the blunt tool of the Pakistan army – an army which does not share the US or Nato’s strategic objectives for Afghanistan. On the contrary: for Pakistan, the Afghan Taliban remain the …
www.opendemocracy.net/article/pakistan-and-the-afpak-strategy

FT.com | Gideon Rachman’s Blog | Washington’s over-stretched …
By Gideon Rachman
When Obama visited Nato in April, neither his Nato ambassador – Ivo Daalder– nor his Assistant Secretary for Europe, Phil Gordon, had been confirmed so neither was able to travel with him. Gordon’s six-month odyssey began last December …
blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/05/washingtons
-over-stretched-foreign-policy-establishment/

Iraq Today: War News for Thursday, May 28, 2009
By whisker
A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province on Thursday said Afghan police and NATO troops launched a ground operation and air strikes in Wor Mamay district near the Pakistani border overnight, killing 34 Taliban militants. …
warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2009/05/
war-news-for-thursday-may-28-2009.html

The TaxPayers’ Alliance – EU: West Pointless
By Lee Rotherham
The difference is, however, that current arrangements tend to be either bilateral, or as part of a NATO programme. This scheme is very different. A declared aim would be to “promote the emergence of shared values which could be drawn on …
www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/2009/05/west-pointless.html

Libertas? Nein Danke! Say NO to Europe’s New Right Wing: France 24 …
By People Korps
The inclusion of De Villiers, who is doggedly anti-Europe, anti-Nato, and against Turkey’s entry into the EU, also points to some glaring inconsistencies about policy within Libertas. Ganley claims he is not against Europe, …
peoplekorps.blogspot.com/2009/05/
france-24-on-libertas-and-declan.html

Macedonia’s DUI Gives Deadline For NATO
BalkanInsight.com – Pristina,Kosovo,Serbia
Greece blocked Macedonia’s entrance into NATO last year, demanding that Macedonia changes its constitutional name first which collides with that of Greece’s …
www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/19455/