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U.S. To Intensify Military Drive Into Asia
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 3:16 pm | Rick Rozoff
Barack Obama, the latest rotating imperator of the first global empire, will arrive in Lisbon on November 19 to receive the plaudits of 27 North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies and secure their continued fealty on issues ranging from the war in Afghanistan ... More >>
U.S. And NATO To Wage Endless War In Afghanistan
Monday, 15 November 2010, 12:03 pm | Rick Rozoff
The mainstream news media and alternative sources alike have seized on a recent revelation - though it is hardly such - published by McClatchy Newspapers that "The Obama administration has decided to begin publicly walking away from what it once touted as key deadlines ... More >>
Global Military Agenda: US-NATO in South East Asia
Saturday, 23 October 2010, 12:11 pm | Rick Rozoff
In keeping with the global trend manifested in other strategically vital areas of the world, the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - a consortium of all major Western military (including nuclear) powers and former ... More >>
US's Undeclared War: Drone Attacks In Pakistan
Monday, 27 September 2010, 4:28 pm | Rick Rozoff
On September 25 three missiles fired from a U.S. Predator drone killed four people near the capital of North Waziristan in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, marking at least the 16th such attack in the country so far this month. More >>
Global NATO Raises Alarms From Arctic To Brazil
Saturday, 18 September 2010, 11:12 am | Rick Rozoff
The current century's only and history's largest military bloc will hold the latest of what have become annual summits in Lisbon, Portugal this November 19 and 20. Heads of state, defense chiefs and chiefs of general staff from the North Atlantic Treaty ... More >>
India: U.S. Completes Global Military Structure
Friday, 10 September 2010, 4:11 pm | Rick Rozoff
A September 8 report by a leading Canadian newspaper cited the Indian branch of the Deloitte consulting firm estimating the world's second most populous nation plans to spend as much as $80 billion for its defense sector in the next five years. More >>
Book Review: The Politics of Genocide
Friday, 3 September 2010, 10:31 am | Rick Rozoff
In 1895 novelist Anatole France - who in the same decade took up cudgels in defense of persecuted Armenians in the Ottoman Empire while also entering the lists on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus - wrote an essay in which he maintained that words are like coins. ... More >>
Afghanistan: NATO's Ten Year War In South Asia
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 12:10 pm | Rick Rozoff
In slightly over a month, on October 7, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan will enter its tenth year. The conflict represents the longest continuous combat operations in the history of the United States and Afghanistan alike. More >>
Pentagon's New Global Military Partner: Sweden
Friday, 27 August 2010, 5:40 pm | Rick Rozoff
The longest war in U.S. history and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's first armed conflict outside Europe, as well as its first ground war, is nearing the beginning of its tenth year. More >>
Iraq: New Middle East Proxy Army
Saturday, 14 August 2010, 2:04 pm | Rick Rozoff
A North Atlantic Treaty Organization website recently posted an article by the commander of the NATO Training Mission – Iraq, American Lieutenant General Michael Barbero, entitled "NATO Training Mission – Iraq: Tactical Size...Strategic Impact" which ... More >>
Petraeus Expands US Military Presence In Eurasia
Wednesday, 7 July 2010, 12:22 pm | Rick Rozoff
On July 4 General David Petraeus assumed command of 142,000 U.S. and NATO troops in a ceremony in the Afghan capital of Kabul. He succeeded the disgraced and soon to be retired General Stanley McChrystal as chief of all foreign troops in Afghanistan, ... More >>
Afghan War: Petraeus Expands Military In Eurasia
Monday, 5 July 2010, 3:52 pm | Rick Rozoff
On July 4 General David Petraeus assumed command of 142,000 U.S. and NATO troops in a ceremony in the Afghan capital of Kabul. He succeeded the disgraced and soon to be retired General Stanley McChrystal as chief of all foreign troops in Afghanistan More >>
At the Geopolitical Crossroads of China and Russia
Monday, 12 April 2010, 11:56 am | Rick Rozoff
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed five years after and in the same manner as he came to power, in a bloody uprising. Elected president two months after the so-called Tulip Revolution of 2005 he helped engineer, he was since then head of ... More >>
Georgia: Simulating War Or Provoking It?
Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 3:55 pm | Rick Rozoff
On the evening of March 13 Georgia's Imedi television channel ran a 30-minute prime time "simulated" newscast about a Russian invasion of the South Caucasus nation complete with a report that the country's mercurial and megalomaniacal president - Mikheil ... More >>
Somalia: Africom's First War
Friday, 12 March 2010, 5:13 pm | Rick Rozoff
Over 43 people have been killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in the past two days in fighting between Shabab (al-Shabaab) insurgent forces, who on March 10 advanced to within one mile of the nation's presidential palace, and troops of the U.S.-backed ... More >>
U.S. Intensifies Threats to Russia And Iran
Friday, 19 February 2010, 2:44 pm | Rick Rozoff
Washington and its NATO allies launched two of the three major wars in the world over the past eleven years in March - against Yugoslavia in 1999 and against Iraq in 2003. The war drums are being pounded anew and the world may be headed for a catastrophe ... More >>
U.S., NATO Expand Afghan War To Horn Of Africa
Friday, 8 January 2010, 4:23 pm | Rick Rozoff
In parallel with the escalation of the war in South Asia - counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and drone missile attacks in Pakistan - the United States and its NATO allies have laid the groundwork for increased naval, air and ground operations ... More >>
2010: U.S. To Wage War Throughout The World
Friday, 1 January 2010, 11:31 am | Rick Rozoff
January 1 will usher in the last year of the first decade of a new millennium and ten consecutive years of the United States conducting war in the Greater Middle East. More >>
U.S. Recruits Worldwide For Afghan War
Thursday, 24 December 2009, 4:08 pm | Rick Rozoff
The first of 33,000 more U.S. troops have arrived in Afghanistan for a Christmas surge and they will soon be joined by as many as 10,000 additional non-American troops serving under NATO in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). More >>
The Great Game: US., NATO War In Afghanistan
Monday, 7 December 2009, 11:28 am | Rick Rozoff
The U.S. (and Britain) began bombing the Afghan capital of Kabul on October 7, 2001 with Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from warships and submarines and bombs dropped from warplanes and shortly thereafter American special forces began ground operations, ... More >>