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Facing total economic meltdown at home US/UK, spear-heading NATO, have chosen the path of confrontation with the rest of the world, a path which will lead us to the brink of war with Russia and China
Posted by smeddum on January 4, 2011
Posted on 02. Jan, 2011 by Raja Mujtaba
opinion-maker
By Kourosh Ziabari
In its path towards becoming a major regional and international player, Iran is achieving remarkable breakthroughs in science and 
technology which have started to flabbergast the rivals around the world, including the United States, once an economic and scientific leader and the neighboring countries in the Persian Gulf region that are years from reaching self-sufficiency in meeting their domestic needs. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2011
Gareth Porter
Asia Times
5th January, 2011
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The Twilight of the Warlords
The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there.
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Posted by seumasach on December 28, 2010
Voltairenet
3rd December, 2010
Al-Manar, television station affiliated with Hezbollah, rendered a detailed account of the revelations made by Russian magazine Odnako regarding the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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Posted by seumasach on December 28, 2010
Stephen Gowans
Voltairenet
24th December, 2010
There are three key facts that place the brinkmanship being played out on the Korean peninsula into perspective. With these facts providing the context, the recent behavior of south Korea is revealed to be that of a local bully acting on behalf of a much larger global one.
Canadian journalist Stephen Gowans dissects the fast-unraveling crisis between the two Koreas.
The first key fact is that north Korea is a military pipsqueak in comparison with the militaries that have taken an actively hostile stance towards it. South Korea’s military budget is many times larger than north Korea’s, and the south Korean military is integrated into the world’s preeminent military machine, the US armed forces. Close to 30,000 US troops are stationed on Korean soil; 40,000 in nearby Japan can be deployed quickly to increase US military power on the peninsula. US submarines lurk on the edges of north Korea’s territorial waters. US spy planes fly high over its territory. And US strategic nuclear missiles are targeted on north Korean sites. To think that north Korea poses a danger to south Korea is to think that a flyweight boxer is a threat to a middleweight backed by the world’s superheavyweight champion. The best a flyweight can do is strike back if attacked and inflict some damage, knowing he’ll be pulverized in the conflict.
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Posted by seumasach on December 28, 2010
Netfa Freeman
Aletho News
14th December, 2010
When Zimbabwe initiated fast track land redistribution in 2000 it was big news for corporate media to echo several patented denunciations, characterizing the process as rife with corruption, violence, and inefficiency and doomed to fail. More than eager to join the fray was the liberal left whose pseudo analysis reiterated the same line accompanied by an aversion to anything that seemed even remotely favorable to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF party.
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Posted by seumasach on December 24, 2010
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Posted by smeddum on December 19, 2010
What’sleft
December 17, 2010
By Stephen Gowans
Does this sound familiar?
“In South Korea, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that marines based on Yeonpyeong Island, a tiny fishing community with military bases near the Koreas’ disputed sea border, will stage one-day live-fire drills.” [1] Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on December 16, 2010
Sam Husseini
9th December, 2008
Shortly before the bombing of Yugoslavia began in late March 1999, Richard Holbrooke met with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. By his own account, Holbrooke delivered the final ultimatum to Milosevic — that if Yugoslavia didn’t agree to the Rambouillet text, NATO would begin bombing.
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Posted by seumasach on December 16, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2010
Diana Johnstone
Counterpunch
15th december, 2010
It is usually considered good form to avoid sharp criticism of someone who has just died. But Richard Holbrooke himself set a striking example of the breach of such etiquette. On learning of the death in prison of Slobodan Milosevic, Holbrooke did not hesitate to describe him as a “monster” comparable to Hitler and Stalin.
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Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2010
Peter Dale Scott
Voltairenet
13th December, 2010
According to Peter Dale Scott, there is no point in deploring the expansion of drug production in Afghanistan and the heroin epidemic gripping great parts of the world. Conclusions must be drawn from the established facts: the Taliban eradicated poppy cultivation; NATO promoted it; drug money corrupted the Karzai government but it is especially inside U.S. institutions that drug corruption is rife. Therefore, the solution does not lie with Kabul but with Washington.
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technology which have started to flabbergast the rivals around the world, including the United States, once an economic and scientific leader and the neighboring countries in the Persian Gulf region that are years from reaching self-sufficiency in meeting their domestic needs. Read the rest of this entry »
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