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Turkey’s Not-So-Subtle Shift on Syria By M K Bhadrakumar
The conclave at Antalya was entitled “Change in Syria”. Ankara would go ballistic if a neighboring country did to it such a thing. The conclave at Antalya didn’t happen accidentally, either. It was well planned. Turkish authorities allowed it to go ahead but with one caveat: no Kurdish political parties would be invited. The Syrian… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 7, 2011
7 June 2011 — Stop NATO 81-Day War Against Libya: Over 10,000 NATO Sorties Video And Text: NATO Intensifies Bombing Of Tripoli Eurasian Heartland: U.S. Breathes Life Into New Cold War Strait Of Malacca: U.S. To Establish New Base In Singapore U.S. To Expand Military Presence In Asia: Gates Largest-Ever U.S.-India Military Deal Indian Ocean: Continue reading
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Russia's U-Turn on Libya By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work… Continue reading
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Russia’s U-Turn on Libya By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work… Continue reading
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The Secret Wars of the Saudi-Israeli Alliance By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Tel Aviv, Washington and NATO are taking advantage of the upheavals in the Arab World. Not only are they fighting against the legitimate aspirations of the Arab people, they are manipulating the Arab geo-political landscape as part of their strategy to control Eurasia. Continue reading
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Syria, Libya, and Russia’s Retreat from “Reset” By M K Bhadrakumar
The last thing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev did before departing for France to attend this week’s Group of Eight summit meeting in Deauville was place a call to Damascus. Continue reading
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Disclosure and Deceit: Secrecy as the Manipulation of History, not its Concealment By Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Julian Assange is quoted as saying that when he receives documents classified under the UK Official Secrets Act he responds in accordance with the letter of the law – since it is forbidden to withhold or destroy, his only option is to publish. The question remains for historians, investigators, and educated citizens: what is the… Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: May 21, 2011: NATO Provokes Humanitarian Crisis By Bombing Tripoli Port
21 May 2011 — Stop NATO NATO’s Libyan Air War: Over 7,500 Flights, Nearly 3,000 Combat Missions Libya: NATO Provokes Humanitarian Crisis By Bombing Tripoli Port Canada Expends Hundreds Of Bombs, $300 Million On Libyan War Russia: NATO Wages War For “Regime Change” In Libya U.S.-NATO European Missile Shield Targets Russia, General Claims Russia Tests Continue reading
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America’s Libyans By Vijay Prashad
In December 23, 2010, before the Tunisian uprising, Boukhris, Charrani and Mansouri went to Paris to meet with Qaddafi’s old aide-de-camp, Nuri Mesmari, who had defected to the Concorde-Lafayette hotel. Mesmari was singing to the DGSE and Sarkozy about the weaknesses in the Libyan state. His man in Benghazi was Colonel Abdallah Gehani of the… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 7-11 March 2011: Macedonia / Libya / START / South-East Asia / Yemen
12 March 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Will Macedonia become the third Albanian state in the Balkans? 11.03.2011 | 10:00 | YAMBAEV Mikhail The former Macedonian Foreign Minister Slobodan Chashule says there is only one reason for Albanians to be interested in Macedonia’s entry into NATO: “Their strategy is not Macedonia’s territorial secession. They simply Continue reading
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The March to War: Was September 11 2001 the Start of World War III? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The tragic attacks of September 11, 2001 have resulted in almost ten years of perpetual war. September 11, 2001 was the first drum beats, or the opening salvos, of a much wider conflict. The deployment of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan has secured a bridgehead into the Eurasian Heartland, which is geographically positioned on… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Beyond Hiroshima – The Non-Reporting Of Fallujah’s Cancer Catastrophe
Whereas the story of the maltreated cat received heavy coverage for almost one week across the UK media, we (and activist friends in the United States) can find exactly one mention of the Fallujah cancer and infant mortality study in the entire UK and US national press – Patrick Cockburn’s article in the Independent. The… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 29 August, 2010: Weekend Update – America's Corruption Racket in Central Asia
29 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House America’s Corruption Racket in Central Asia By Scott Horton This is the third time this summer that the United States has been slammed with credible charges of corrupting foreign governments in Central Asia. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26266.htm Afghanistan PowerPoints ‘R’ Us By Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D., is a colonel in the U.S. Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation 28 February – 3 March, 2010
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Global Research 4 February, 2010: The Haitian Disaster and the Threat of War Selected Articles January 29 – 4 February, 2010
4 February, 2010 — Global Research The Crisis in Haiti Global Research Dossier of 50+ articles and reports – 2010-02-15 Award Winning Movie: “SUPERPOWER”: Order the DVD Online from Global Research – by Barbara-Anne Steegmuller – 2010-02-15 US Intelligence Report Classifies Venezuela as Anti-US Leader – by Eva Golinger – 2010-02-03 Petition: War is Illegal Continue reading
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America cannot be the hegemon of Western Asia By Lawrence Wilkerson
5 December, 2009 Wilkerson Pt2: Diplomacy must lead a regional solution to Afghan war; there is no military solution Part 2 4 December, 2009 Wilkerson Pt. 1: Lawrence Wilkerson: Obama’s campaign rhetoric and his generals put him in a corner on Afghanistan Part 1 Bio Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and Continue reading
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The Medvedev Doctrine and American Strategy By George Friedman
If a U.S. settlement with Iran is impossible, and a diplomatic solution with the Russians that would keep them from taking a hegemonic position in the former Soviet Union cannot be reached, then the United States must consider rapidly abandoning its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and redeploying its forces to block Russian expansion. Continue reading
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US Gambles with Russia: Stoking a Global War? By Stephen Lendman
One nation above others is an obstacle – Russia. It’s powerful and can’t be intimidated like most others. It’s also dominant where Washington wants control – the Eurasian vastness with its huge oil, gas and other resources. For years, American sought dominance over it. Saw an opening when the Soviet Union dissolved. And one way… Continue reading
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