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| Welcome to NATOstan |
| 20.11.10 11:59 |
Global Security |
| Be afraid. Be very afraid. At the Lisbon summit this Friday and Saturday, a gargantuan, innocuously sounding, self-described "military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America" that happens to be a Cold War relic sits in its own nuclear-adorned couch to speculate what it is actually all ab |
| Pepe Escoba |
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| New Eugenics and the Rise of the Global Scientific Dictatorship |
| 14.07.10 16:04 |
Global Security |
| We are in the midst of the most explosive development in all of human history. Humanity is experiencing a simultaneously opposing and conflicting geopolitical transition, the likes of which has never before been anticipated or experienced. Historically, the story of humanity has been the struggle between the free-thinking individual and structures of power controlled by elites that seek to dominate land, resources and people. The greatest threat to elites at any time – historically and presently – is an awakened, critically thinking and politically stimulated populace. This threat has manifested itself throughout history, in different places and at different times. Ideas of freedom, democracy, civil and human rights, liberty and equality have emerged in reaction and opposition to power structures and elite systems of control. |
| Andrew Gavin Marshall |
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| Pentagon starts an Afghan building boom |
| 10.11.09 13:35 |
Global Security |
| In recent weeks, President Barack Obama has been contemplating the future of United States military operations in Afghanistan. He has also been touting the effects of his policies at home, reporting that this year′s Recovery Act not only saved jobs but also was "the largest investment in infrastructure since [president Dwight] Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s". At the same time, another much less publicized US-taxpayer-funded infrastructure boom has been underway. This one in Afghanistan. |
| Nick Turse |
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| Geo-Strategic Chessboard: War Between India and China? |
| 22.10.09 08:34 |
Global Security |
| Since 1947, India has not fully pledged itself to any camp or global pole during the Cold War and as a result was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement (N.A.M.). Since the post-Cold War era that position has eroded. New Delhi has been gradually moving away from its traditional position, relationships, and policies in the international arena for over a decade. |
| Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya |
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| Poverty and Food Insecurity in the Developing World: For Us, Tolls the Bell |
| 08.05.09 20:28 |
Global Security |
| Senator Lugar and others [Senators John Kerry, Susan Collins, Robert Casey, Richard Durbin and Thomas Harkin] of the US Senate have introduced ‘Global Food Security Act’ [GFSA, No. S384] to be administered by the USAID. [1] ‘The bill was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.’ Although it seems to have a humanitarian purpose, GFSA is as sinister as the two pending bills HR875 and S425. I say this because not one US regulatory authority has successfully regulated industries in the interest of the people at least in the last ninety-odd years. Monopolies have been protected and cartels continue to kill in the US and across the world. And the second reason is that USAID is actually an arm of the US-Department of Defense; it serves US foreign policy interest which has little to do with humanitarianism. |
| Arun Shrivastava |
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| A planet at the brink? |
| 25.02.09 13:38 |
Global Security |
| The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures, bankruptcies, plant closings, and foreclosures and will, in the coming year, leave many tens of millions unemployed across the planet. But another perilous consequence of the crash of 2008 has only recently made its appearance: increased civil unrest and ethnic strife. Someday, perhaps, war may follow. |
| Michael T Klare |
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| Is an 'Asian NATO' Really On The US Agenda? |
| 29.01.09 19:26 |
Global Security |
| There has been some talk concerning American intentions to forge an Asian NATO, i.e. a US led military alliance meant to advance its members' geopolitical interests in the region. During the Cold War, the US created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) which also encompassed France and the UK as well as regional pro-Western States such as Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Pakistan and the Philippines. However, such organization was dissolved in 1977. |
| José Miguel Alonso Trabanco |
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| The Generals Have No Clothes |
| 25.11.08 17:00 |
Global Security |
| "There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome's allies; and if Rome had no allies, the allies would be invented. When it was utterly impossible to contrive such an interest -- why, then it was the national honor that had been insulted. The fight was always invested with an aura of legality. Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbors. The whole world was pervaded by a host of enemies; it was manifestly Rome's duty to guard against their indubitably aggressive designs." |
| Carlton Meyer |
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