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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 73
If there’s anyone out there who is not already thoroughly cynical about those on the board of directors of the planet, the latest chapter in the saga of the bombing of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland might just be enough to push them over the edge. Continue reading
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The Responsibility to Protect, the International Criminal Court, and Foreign Policy in Focus: Subverting the UN Charter in the Name of Human Rights By Edward S. Herman & David Peterson
It was just a matter of time before members of the collapsing left enlisted in the imperial attack on the most fundamental principles of the UN Charter, and added their voices to the growing chorus of support for Western power-projection under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). But this… Continue reading
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Pyotr ISKENDEROV: International brigandage under the guise of “humanitarian intervention”
Last week the western centres of power under the United States used their docile UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for their first attempt to officially legalize the so-called “humanitarian interventions”. The wily formula masks armed interventions in the internal affairs of independent states on the pretext of countering mass-scale human rights violations and war crimes, a… 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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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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US-NATO Military Agenda: Part One – The Destabilization of Pakistan By Michel Chossudovsky
Recent developments (including the aerial bombardments of Pakistani villages under the auspices of the “war on terrorism”) indelibly point to a broadening of the Afghan war theater, which now encompasses parts of Pakistan. The underlying tendency is towards an Afghan-Pakistani war. 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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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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New York Times’ Roger Cohen on Georgian crisis: A case of deliberate deception By Alex Lantier
The New York Times, among the most prominent organs of American liberalism, has played a critical role in legitimizing the US government’s position. Its September 1 column by ‘International Writer-at-Large’ Roger Cohen, headlined ‘NATO’s Disastrous Georgian Fudge,’ is an example of the Times’ deliberate campaign of disinformation on the Georgian crisis. Continue reading
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New York Times’ Roger Cohen on Georgian crisis: A case of deliberate deception By Alex Lantier
The New York Times, among the most prominent organs of American liberalism, has played a critical role in legitimizing the US government’s position. Its September 1 column by ‘International Writer-at-Large’ Roger Cohen, headlined ‘NATO’s Disastrous Georgian Fudge,’ is an example of the Times’ deliberate campaign of disinformation on the Georgian crisis. Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, August 5, 2008 By William Blum Obama and the Empire
We find Obama threatening, several times, to attack Iran if they don’t do what the United States wants them to do nuclear-wise; threatening more than once to attack Pakistan if their anti-terrorist policies are not tough enough or if there would be a regime change in the nuclear-armed country not to his liking Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, June 6, 2008 By William Blum
6 June 2006 — Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life The Empire — A Status Report There are a number of expressions and slogans associated with the Nazi regime in Germany which have become commonly known in English. ‘Sieg Heil!’ — Victory Hail! ‘Arbeit macht Continue reading
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NATO’s Inferno By William Bowles
I know I shouldn’t be surprised but nevertheless I am. Surprised firstly that I live in a barbaric culture that has been able to masquerade as civilised and secondly, that it has been able to persuade the world that it possesses civilised credentials in the first place. And thirdly, that it has been able to… Continue reading
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