War
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Dismantling the Doomsday Machines by John V. Walsh
The Doomsday Machine, the title of Daniel Ellsberg’s superb book is not simply an imaginary contraption from a movie masterpiece. A Doomsday Machine uncannily like the one described in Dr. Strangelove exists right now. In fact, there are two such machines, one in US hands and one in Russia’s. The US seeks to hide its… Continue reading
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Reagan Wannabe Relaunches Reagan’s Star Wars By Moon of Alabama
On December 12 2001 then President Bush pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. Under the 1972 ABM treaty the Soviet Union and the United States had agreed to deploy only one anti-ballistic missile system each. With that limit gone the U.S. started to build a global missile defense system in Alaska and California that… Continue reading
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US Blows Up INF… Another Move Towards Downfall
It is rather astounding the American double-think. It was the US side which unilaterally abolished the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty in 2002. And it is the US side which is now unilaterally threatening to walk away from a second landmark arms control treaty, the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) accord, which was first put in place… Continue reading
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Hypersonic Weapons Unlikely To Become A Bargaining Chip by Vladimir Kozin
There is a marked unease in US military and defence industry circles regarding advances in high-precision hypersonic weapons that they believe are being actively developed in Russia and the People’s Republic of China. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Remembrance – The Dehumanised Human
It is clear even from their titles that corporate newspapers are objective, balanced and impartial. Or so we are to believe. Continue reading
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Risking Total Annihilation for the Sake of Profit – with Wilkerson and Jay (3/3)
Larry Wilkerson says the US government is raising the danger of nuclear war by spending more than a trillion dollars to upgrade the American nuclear arsenal, with no real objective other than money making – with host Paul Jay (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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The US Institute of Peace… Promotes Endless Syrian War By Tony Cartalucci
An “independent national institute founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition that a world without violent conflict is possible,” would be the last place you would expect to find calls for continued war. Continue reading
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The EU votes for the installation of new US missiles in Europe By Manlio Dinucci
The member States of the European Union have unanimously aligned themselves with the military strategy of their American big brother. They have accepted that their own territory may transform itself into a nuclear battleground in the case of conflict between the United States and Russia. Continue reading
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The Gatwick drone: A taste of the technology by Chris Cole
While many newspapers mocked the alleged incompetence of the authorities in not dealing with the situation simply and swiftly, the reality is that drones are a disruptive technology. The ability to use remote-controlled systems to intervene at distance with little or no consequences to the operator is perhaps now coming home to roost. Continue reading
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Washington’s Backfiring Bombing By Brian Cloughley
Wikipedia tells us that “The Times Square Ball is a… prominent part of a New Year’s Eve celebration commonly referred to as the ball drop, where the ball descends 43 metres in 60 seconds… to signal the start of the new year.” But there was another and less amusing ball-drop on New Year’s Day, involving… Continue reading
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America’s Wars, Coups and Sanctions in 2019: Selected Stories
2 January 2019 — Global Research The New Year Past and Future. Multiple Wars, Coups, Sanctions and Trade Disputes By Prof. James Petras Multiple wars, coups, sanctions and trade disputes dominated the US political agenda. War budgets grew, military sales increased and frictions between the US and Saudi Arabia bubbled to the surface . . . and… Continue reading
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F.W. ENGDAHL: Why NATO Wants to Destroy Putin’s Russia—the Cold War that Never Ended
The following is an excerpt from my book, Manifest Destiny dealing with NATO efforts after 2002 to encircle Russia and break Putin, all to date to little success. It gives an essential missing element to the extraordinary demonization of Putin’s Russia over the recent time. Continue reading
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US Military Apologizes For Posting Uncomfortably Honest Tweet By Caitlin Johnstone
US Strategic Command (or “Stratcom” if you’re trying to make a nuclear-capable arm of the US Defense Department sound cool) has issued an apology for a poorly received New Year’s Eve tweet which has since been deleted. Continue reading
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One sixth of world’s people want to flee their home countries
The world is pulsing with hundreds of millions of people desperate to flee their homes under the weight of the crisis of world capitalism. According to a recent Gallup study, a sixth of the world’s adult population—some 750 million people, not including children—want to flee their home countries to escape war, poverty, conflict and disease. Continue reading
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Two New Reports Point to Further US Decline & Higher Risk of War By James O’Neill
Two recent reports from the United States strongly suggest the United States is planning a major war with Russia and China, but are far from certain that they could in fact succeed in such aa war. The reports also provide insights into how the United States will meet the budgetary demands of such war preparations,… Continue reading
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Enabling RAF chaplains to provide guidance to drone pilots
The Times and the Commercial Drone Professional reported recently that the Church of England has announced a programme helping RAF chaplains to offer pastoral care and support to drone pilots. They will spend a year studying for a master’s degree in ethics at Cardiff University so they can provide guidance to drone pilots in the… Continue reading
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A World of Multiple Detonators of Global Wars By Prof. James Petras
We face a world of multiple wars some leading to direct global power conflagrations and others that begin as regional conflicts but quickly spread to big power confrontations. We will proceed to identify ‘great power’ confrontations and then proceed to discuss the stages of ‘proxy’ wars with world war consequences. Continue reading
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The USA is preparing for a confrontation with Russia and China By Manlio Dinucci
The US Commission on the National Defense Strategy was created in 2017 in order to provide Congress with some expertise on the subject. However, its principal source of information is the US Institute of Peace, the equivalent of the NED for the Secretary of Defense. As a result, its bipartisan attitude is in reality the… Continue reading
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How To Avoid A New War In Europe By Vladimir Kozin
There is a rather embarrassing negative perspective for maintaining rational military strategic parity between Russia and USA and Russia and NATO as a whole in the coming decades due to future tremendous expenditures of the USA for modernizing strategic and tactical nuclear forces that will require $ U.S. 1,2-1,7 trillion during next three decades for… Continue reading
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Killing the Prospects for Arms Control: Selected Stories
2 December 2018 — Global Research US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Kill Prospects for Arms Control By Andrei Akulov New START limits the US and Russia each to no more than 1,550 deployed strategic warheads and 700 deployed strategic delivery vehicles. Effective since 2011, the agreement covers a 10-year period until February 2021 with the possibility of a five-year… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 