NATO
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The End of Chimerica? By M K Bhadrakumar
It all began with United States Vice President Joseph Biden choosing a tour of Ukraine and Georgia on July 20-23 to rebuke the Kremlin publicly for its “19th-century notions of spheres of influence”. Clearly, Biden’s jaunt was choreographed as a forceful demonstration of the Barack Obama administration’s resolve to keep up the US’s strategic engagement… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 72 Keeping track of the empire's crimes
If you catch the CIA with its hand in the cookie jar and the Agency admits the obvious — what your eyes can plainly see — that its hand is indeed in the cookie jar, it means one of two things: a) the CIA’s hand is in several other cookie jars at the same time… Continue reading
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The Biden and Clinton Mutinies By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
At the superficial level Obama is presiding over an undisciplined administration; on a more realistic and sinister construction, he is facing mutiny, publicly conducted by two people who only a year ago were claiming that their qualifications to be in the Oval Office were far superior to those of the junior senator from Illinois. Continue reading
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Global Research: Militarization and Western Power Selected Articles 31 July, 2009
Militarization and Western Power Selected Articles 31 July, 2009 Continue reading
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Britain’s propaganda offensive on behalf of Afghan war By Chris Marsden
There is growing public concern that Afghanistan is fast becoming a worse and more intractable debacle than Iraq, fueling opposition to the war and demands for an exit strategy. Despite Miliband’s statement that he accepted the public ‘wanted to know whether and how we can succeed’ in Afghanistan, he demonstrated the government’s willingness to defy… Continue reading
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US Escalates War Plans In Latin America By By Rick Rozoff
On June 29 US President Barack Obama hosted his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe at the White House and weeks later it was announced that the Pentagon plans to deploy troops to five air and naval bases in Colombia, the largest recipient of American military assistance in Latin America and the third largest in the world,… Continue reading
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NATO's War Plans For The High North, Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea By Rick Rozoff
The alarming and aggressive campaign is exemplified by the ongoing 10-day Loyal Arrow 2009 NATO military exercises being conducted in Sweden, described by a major American daily newspaper as “A NATO rapid-reaction force…on a war footing in Swedish Lapland” which consists of “Ten countries, 2,000 troops, a strike aircraft carrier, and 50 fighter jets - … Continue reading
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West Plots To Supplant United Nations With Global NATO by Rick Rozoff
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 browbeat the other fourteen then members of the Security Council to depose Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and replace him with Kofi Annan, who… Continue reading
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Obama’s Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars Equal Peace and Justice By Prof James Petras
McChrystal’s rise to leadership is marked by his central role in directing special operations teams engaged in extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions. He is the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies military-driven empire building. Continue reading
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Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia By Rick Rozoff
The US plans to deploy ground-, sea-, air- and space-based anti-missile systems primarily around and against Russia (Poland, the Czech Republic, Norway, Britain, Japan and Alaska to date), the Pentagon will hold in reserve nuclear warheads for activation without a monitoring mechanism provided to Russian inspectors and arms reduction negotiators. Continue reading
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Video: NATO exercise provoke Russia By F. William Engdahl
Engdahl: NATO exercises in Georgia are a provocative move against Russia by the Pentagon Continue reading
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Thoughts On The War Between The USA And Pakistan By Winter Patriot
This, ultimately, is what makes a major escalation of the war between the US and Pakistan inevitable. The Obama administration embodies none of the change we were hoping for. We are still governed by Bush/Clinton retreads, neo-con chicken hawks, friends and agents of Israel, and Wall Street bankers. None of these people see anything wrong… Continue reading
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NATO War Games In Georgia: Threat Of New Caucasus War by Rick Rozoff
That the last two series of planning exercises and war games have been scheduled in the South Caucasus, and the current one in a nation that not only borders Russia but fought a five-day war with it only nine months ago, and that the military bloc running the exercises and its main member, the US,… Continue reading
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The Prospects of a New Cold War? Towards the Consolidation of the Russian-led CSTO Military Alliance By José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
In the post Soviet space the late 2000s’ geopolitical reality is different from that of the 90s because Russia is vigorously attempting to reassert its power and to reinforce its own national security. Moscow is strongly defending its interests in the so called Near Abroad, (i. e. the former Soviet Union, which is the core… Continue reading
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Video – Life between empires (Georgian trap Pt3)
Georgian newspaper publisher Malkhaz Gulashvili. As Georgia and the surrounding region undergo further militarization by the two superpowers, Gulashvili provides a radical proposal to help create a peaceful and independent Georgia. Continue reading
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The Crisis in Somalia: US-NATO Plans to Control the Indian Ocean By Rick Rozoff
For all the horrors US administrations from that of Carter to the current one have visited upon the Somali people, Washington gained what it intended to: Military bases and forces astride many of the world’s most strategic shipping lanes and chokepoints in an area encompassing the Suez Canal and the Red Sea into the Gulf… Continue reading
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NATO, SCO or PATO? By Eric Walberg
The Russians believe that Afghan drug trafficking is the most serious threat to the security of Russia and Central Asia. Russia’s anti-drug chief Viktor Ivanov last week called the coalition’s anti-drug policy a fiasco, noting that opium production in Afghanistan had soared since the deployment of US and NATO troops in the country. Continue reading
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Canada: In Service To The Pentagon And NATO At Home And Abroad By Rick Rozoff
From supplying its former colonial master Britain with a disproportionate amount of troops in both world wars to following the lead of Britain and the United States in wars from Korea in 1950 to Yugoslavia in 1999 to Afghanistan at present, Canada has rarely balked at demands for political acquiescence and military complicity from its… Continue reading
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Nebojsha VUKOVIC (Serbia) NATO: slaughter of civilians and drugs
While NATO exists, there will exist such parallel stories: the one about the alliance’s humanitarian mission, the other (which is less frequent) about death and destruction NATO is guilty of. Continue reading
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