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Russia, NATO and Afghanistan: High stakes Great Game By Eric Walberg
Explaining the willingness of Euro leaders to ignore their constituents, former US ambassador to NATO and RAND adviser Robert Hunter told the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR): “In terms of motivation, very few European countries believe that winning in Afghanistan — that is, dismantling, defeating, and destroying Al-Qaeda and Taliban — is necessary for their… Continue reading
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NATO’s Secret Transatlantic Bond: Nuclear Weapons In Europe By Rick Rozoff
Is Italy capable of delivering a thermonuclear strike? Could the Belgians and the Dutch drop hydrogen bombs on enemy targets?…Germany’s air force couldn’t possibly be training to deliver bombs 13 times more powerful than the one that destroyed Hiroshima, could it? December 2, one entitled “What to Do About Europe’s Secret Nukes.” In response to… Continue reading
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Geopolitical Crossroads: Pentagon and NATO Complete Their Conquest of The Balkans By Rick Rozoff
Bosnia and Montenegro being incorporated as full NATO members and Macedonia following suit would expand the world’s only military bloc to 31 nations, almost twice that of ten years ago when it first began its drive into Eastern Europe. And with Serbia and Kosovo, which even before becoming a member is the world’s first NATO… Continue reading
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Realities Collide at Halifax “War Conference” By Anthony Fenton
While the world’s top military elites gather inside a fortified hotel to discuss NATO’s future, protesters question the organisation’s legitimacy, secrecy, and the lack of democratic debate about the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Global Warfare USA: The World is the Pentagon’s Oyster By Rick Rozoff
“Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze) and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups and six navy fleets that roam the world’s oceans and… Continue reading
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ABC Of West’s Global Military Network: Afghanistan, Baltics, Caucasus By Rick Rozoff
The century’s longest war continues to rage in South Asia with no sign of abating. Instead, the invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 has exploded into endless armed hostilities that have spread across the length and breadth of the nation, with U.S. and NATO military forces fighting an intensified counterinsurgency conflict in the north,… Continue reading
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NATO vs CSTO: The Fogh of war By Eric Walberg
NATO’s reputation as the guardian of peace on Earth is in tatters these days. Once avowedly an alliance of North America and Western Europe to fight the communist hordes of Eurasia, it morphed into something quite difference with the collapse of the socialist bloc two decades ago. It now pretends to unite all of Europe… Continue reading
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Escalation of US NATO War in Afghanistan: The Risks of Regional Conflagration By Rick Rozoff
The conflict has indeed proven to be much broader than Afghanistan. It has already reached throughout South and Central Asia, dragging in troops from all parts of the planet and crisscrossing much of Eurasia and the Middle East with the transit of soldiers, arms, military cargo planes and armored vehicles. It has become a battleground… Continue reading
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Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, When the Lie becomes the Truth By Michel Chossudovsky
At this critical juncture in our history, the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President and Commander in Chief Barack Obama constitutes an unmitigated tool of propaganda and distortion, which unreservedly supports the Pentagon’s “Long War”: “A War without Borders” in the true sense of the word, characterised by the Worlwide… Continue reading
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Greater Albania: Threat of A New US-NATO sponsored Conflict In Europe By Rick Rozoff
Europe may be perched above the precipice of its first armed conflict since NATO’s 78-day bombing war against Yugoslavia in 1999 and the resultant armed invasion of Macedonia from NATO-occupied Kosovo two years later. With the formal accession of Albania into full NATO membership this April and the subsequent reelection victory (at least formally)… Continue reading
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Dangerous Missile Battle In Space: Fifth Act In U.S. Missile Shield Drama By Rick Rozoff
Wars have brought untold horrors upon Europe over the centuries, especially the two world wars of the last one. Until now, though, the continent has been spared the ultimate cataclysm of a missile war. Though twenty years after the end of the Cold War recent news articles contain reports that would have been shocking even… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 74 Ridding the world of the sickness of pacifism
Picture the scene: Afghanistan, two hijacked tankers filled with highly inflammable fuel, surrounded by a crowd of Afghans eager to syphon off some for free … What’s the last thing you want to do? Right — drop bombs on the tankers. That’s what a German military commander signaled an American drone airplane to do September… Continue reading
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US, NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanistan’s History By Rick Rozoff
Over the past week U.S. newspapers and television networks have been abuzz with reports that Washington and its NATO allies are planning an unprecedented increase of troops for the war in Afghanistan, even in addition to the 17,000 new American and several thousand NATO forces that have been committed to the war so far this… Continue reading
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Missile Defense: The Other Story
We are witnessing a flurry of emails and articles proclaiming victory after President Obama’s announcement that he was going to scrap George W. Bush’s plans to deploy missile defense interceptors in Poland and a Star Wars radar in the Czech Republic. But now that we’ve had a day to rejoice, the time has come for… Continue reading
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U.S. Missile Shield Plans: Retreat Or Advance? By Rick Rozoff
On September 17 the White House and the Pentagon, Barack Obama and Robert Gates, announced that after a sixty-day review of the project, the U.S. is going to abandon plans to station ten ground-based interceptor missiles in Poland and a forward-based X-band missile radar installation in the Czech Republic. Continue reading
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Black Sea Crisis Deepens As US-NATO Threat To Iran Grows By Rick Rozoff
Tensions are mounting in the Black Sea with the threat of another conflict between U.S. and NATO client state Georgia and Russia as Washington is manifesting plans for possible military strikes against Iran in both word and deed. Continue reading
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Following Afghan Election, NATO Intensifies Deployments, Carnage By Rick Rozoff
Not, never, willing to acknowledge that the Afghan war is in fact a war, Washington and Brussels from the time of the summit until now have attempted to justify their troop buildups in South Asia as motivated primarily by insuring that the second presidential election in Afghanistan since the joint U.S.-NATO invasion of 2001 proceeded… Continue reading
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Pentagon Plans For Global Military Supremacy: U.S., NATO Could Deploy Mobile Missiles Launchers To Europe By Rick Rozoff
Missile Defense: Ruse And Reality As regards the incontestable fact that U.S. and NATO plans for the deployment of interceptor missiles and complementary radar facilities in Europe are not and could not be designed to protect the United States and Western Europe from imaginary Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles and equally non-existent nuclear warheads, even the… Continue reading
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Showdown with Russia and China: U.S. Advances First Strike Global Missile Shield System By Rick Rozoff
A change in the American White House, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s and the mounting costs in both dollars and lives of the war in Afghanistan have not slowed down the U.S.’s plans for military domination of the planet and in outer space; nor have they lessened the threat… Continue reading
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Afghanistan and NATO: a war that never can be won By Rafe MAIR
When I suggested to my esteemed editor a column on Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan I was reminded of the axiom be careful what you ask for. I quickly learned that one could easily do a fair sized book on the subject! Continue reading
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