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Ratlines: The Vatican, The Nazis & Western Intelligence By Hugo Turner
28 July 2019 — Internationalist 360° In one of the more shocking episodes of the Cold War tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their fascist allies were smuggled out of Europe and resettled around the world in places like Argentina, Canada, Australia and the United States. Others were resettled throughout the middle east a Continue reading
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COLDTYPE SPECIAL ISSUE – Edward S. Herman & David Peterson on The Srbrenica Massacre'
In this special 66-page issue of ColdType, Edward S. Herman and David Peterson critically examine how and why the figure of 8,000 for the number of Bosnian Muslim “men and boys” allegedly executed after the fall of the Srebrenica “safe area” in July 1995 became sacrosanct. They also assess the credibility of this number. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #121 By William Blum: The War on Terrorism … or whatever
All this barbarity piled on top of a greater absurdity – these Western-backed, anti-government forces are often engaged in battle with other Western-backed, anti-government forces, non-jihadist. It has become increasingly difficult to sell this war to the American public as one of pro-democracy “moderates” locked in a good-guy-versus-bad-guy struggle with an evil dictator, although in… Continue reading
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The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War By Diana Johnstone
Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping up in universities. Five years ago, an unlikely “Genocide Prevention Task Force” was set up headed by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former defense secretary William Cohen, both veterans of the Clinton administration. Continue reading
Bosnia, Diana Johnstone, genocide, Holocaust, intervention, Libya, NATO, R2P, Rwanda, Srebrenica, UN -
Stop NATO news: March 11, 2012: Military Chief: U.S. “Preparing Military Options” Against Syria, Iran
11 March 2012 — Stop NATO News Military Chief: U.S. “Preparing Military Options” Against Syria, Iran NATO Helicopter Attack Kills Three Afghan Civilians, Wounds Two U.S. NATO Enlargement Bill: Bosnia, Georgia, Macedonia, Montenegro Bosnia Slated For “Full-Fledged NATO Membership” Turkey: Opposition Deputies Protest Against NATO Missile Radar Turkey: U.S. Air Force Exercises For Possible Syria, Iran Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 3-10 March 2012: Africa / India-Pakistan / Arab Socialism / Russia-USA / Syria /
9 March 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Africa on the Brink of New Shocks 10.03.2012 | 11:33 | Alexander MEZYAEV The state powers of North Africa and the Middle East overtly routed, the process of destabilization in Nigeria and some other Africa South of Sahara countries moved a little away from the radar screen. But the Continue reading
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Bad results of humanitarian intervention practice
Republican Senator John McCain this week called for air strikes against Damascus. According to AFP, he said that it is necessary to disable the Syrian air defense system, at least in some parts of the country, to “establish and defend safe havens in Syria”. McCain makes no attempt to conceal the purpose of these “safe… Continue reading
AFP, Bosnia, EU, intervention, journalists, Kosovo, Libya, McCain, Middle East, NATO, Russia, strikes, Syria, UN -
Stop NATO News: November 29, 2011
29 November 2011 — Stop NATO Will America’s New Hypersonic Weapon Cause A Global Arms Race? Russian Warships Head For Syria SCO Partners: China, Russia Say NATO Attacks On Pakistan Unacceptable NATO Exceeds All Limits In Pakistan Russian Foreign Minister Condemns Deadly NATO Air Attack In Pakistan Pakistan Army Refuses To Accept NATO ‘Expressions Of Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: November 4, 2011
4 November 2011 — Stop NATO After Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq: NATO To Rebuild Libyan Military After Libya, U.S. And NATO To Target Syria, Iran: Indian Left Canadian Military Chief Demands At Least 65 U.S. Joint Strike Fighters Call For U.S. To Deploy Interceptor Missiles On Guam South Ossetia Opposes Western Forces On Border With Continue reading
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Photo gallery: NATO bombs bring democracy to Europe, Asia and Africa
Pictured are the new millennium’s preeminent representatives of the West’s commitment to democracy, freedom, human rights, transparency and Euro-Atlantic values, brought to power by cluster, thermobaric, bunker buster, “daisy cutter” and graphite bombs and Tomahawk and other cruise, Hellfire and Brimstone missiles. Continue reading
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Media Lens: A ‘Malign Intellectual Subculture’ – George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens
In a piece that recalled the iconic scene from The Usual Suspects, Monbiot lined up Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, David Peterson, John Pilger, and Media Lens, as political commentators who ‘take the unwarranted step of belittling the acts of genocide committed by opponents of the western powers’. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 30-31 July 2011
31 July 2011 — williambowles.info Richard Seymour: Gaddafi is Stronger than ever in Libya Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Today at 09:00 Photo: Muammar Gaddafi staying alive for the sake of freedom and the liberation of the oppressed of the world Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war: Stop NATO news: July 25, 2011
25 July 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Air Attacks Shake Libyan Capital, Environs NATO’s Air Assault On Libya: 16,281 Missions, 6,142 Strike Sorties NATO Troops Shoot Dead Afghan Female Doctor, Family Members Taiwan Urges NATO, U.S. Navy To Pay Compensation To Slain Captain’s Family Ex-NATO, U.S. Military Chief Shalikashvili Dies Ex-Top NATO, U.S. Commander: From Continue reading
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Full Circle: NATO Completes Takeover Of Former Yugoslavia By Rick Rozoff
Until the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991, NATO had never staged operations outside the territory of its member states. In 2004 it ran eight operations in four continents, including a training mission in Iraq and combat deployments in Afghanistan.… Continue reading
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The Planning of War Behind Closed Doors: Brussels, London, Istanbul: A Week Of Western War Councils By Rick Rozoff
The defense chiefs of all 28 NATO nations and an undisclosed number of counterparts from non-Alliance partners gathered in Istanbul, Turkey on February 4 to begin two days of meetings focused on the war in Afghanistan, the withdrawal of military forces from Kosovo in the course of transferring control of security operations to the breakaway… Continue reading
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Alexander MEZYAEV Karadzic Trial Opened
The trial of President of the Serb Republic in Bosnia Radovan Karadzic started on October 26. Karadzic was not present he refused to attend, and this was due to serious reasons. Though the prosecution started putting the indictment together 14 years ago, it kept tailoring the document throughout the term. The most recent changes were… Continue reading
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From WW II To WW III: Global NATO And Remilitarized Germany By Rick Rozoff Part 2
With military deployments and interventions in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia from at least as early as 1995-2001 onward, the German Bundeswehr had crossed a barrier, violated a taboo and established a new precedent that paralleled the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, the latter in flagrant contravention of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Continue reading
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New NATO: Germany Returns To World Military Stage, Part 1 by Rick Rozoff
Far from issuing in an era of disarmament and a Europe free of military blocs – or even of war – the merging of the two German states and the simultaneous fragmentation of the Eastern Bloc and, a year later, the USSR was instead followed by a Europe almost entirely dominated by a US-controlled global… Continue reading
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Serb Demonization as Propaganda Coup By Edward S. Herman
With Yugoslavia no longer useful as an ally after the fall of the Soviet Union, and actually an obstacle as an independent state with a still social democratic bent, the NATO powers aimed at its dismantlement, and they actively supported the secession of Slovenia, Croatia, the Bosnian Muslims, and the Kosovo Albanians. Continue reading
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War Inc. – A $300 Billion Dollar Business By William Bowles
Up until the late 19th century, almost all wars were fought with mercenary armies but WWI changed all that. Once war became industrialised and seriously large-scale, relying on relatively small armies, hired from countries far and wide, was no longer practical, nor was it politically acceptable given the appeals to ‘patriotism’ emanating from the ruling… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 