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COMBAT VS. CLIMATE: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared – IPS
COMBAT VS. CLIMATE: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared – IPS. As the U.S. debates the President’s plan for new military engagement, hundreds of thousands converged on New York to urge the world’s nations to take stronger action against the threat of climate change. A new report connects these two issues, and finds that the […]
Vladimir Putin Is The Leader Of the Moral World — Paul Craig Roberts – PaulCraigRoberts.org
Vladimir Putin Is The Leader Of the Moral World — Paul Craig Roberts – PaulCraigRoberts.org. Vladimir Putin’s remarks at the 11th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club are worth more than a link in my latest column. These are the remarks of a humanitarian political leader, the like of which the world has not […]
Re Shootdown Of Flight MH-17—–German Intelligence Concludes Missile Was Ukrainian, Not Russian | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
Re Shootdown Of Flight MH-17—–German Intelligence Concludes Missile Was Ukrainian, Not Russian | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. The West’s case blaming Russia for the shoot-down of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine last July appears to be crumbling as the German foreign intelligence agency has concluded that the anti-aircraft missile battery involved came from a Ukrainian military […]
Canada Hit by Blowback |
Canada Hit by Blowback |. On October 16,press reports informed us that Canada was about to “update” its national security legislation to, you guessed it, better fight terrorism. Specifically, this new legislation is ostensibly designed to not only better counter actual terrorism, but “potential” terrorism: “Canada’s Minister of Public Safety joined justice ministers from across the country in […]
“Whatever We Decide Is A Disaster For Us” France Admits Putin Is Winning, Europe “Blinked” | Zero Hedge
“Whatever We Decide Is A Disaster For Us” France Admits Putin Is Winning, Europe “Blinked” | Zero Hedge. While the analogy of Vladimir Putin playing geopolitical chess (while the rest of the world plays checkers) has been a popular one, the French ambassador Gerard Araud has a different – somewhat stunningly honest – persepctive: Putin “is […]
Putin Warns Of Risk Of Major Conflict, Says Dollar Losing Reserve Currency Status | Zero Hedge
Putin Warns Of Risk Of Major Conflict, Says Dollar Losing Reserve Currency Status | Zero Hedge. Having been relatively quiet for a while, Russia’s leader Vladimir, speaking in Sochi (following meetings with Middle East crown princes who confirmed Russia as a key partner – “isolated”?), has unleashed his most aggressive statements with regard the failing world […]
War Culture Washington’s Blog
War Culture Washington’s Blog. According to a book by George Williston called This Tribe of Mine: A Story of Anglo Saxon Viking Culture in America, the United States wages eternal war because of its cultural roots in the Germanic tribes that invaded, conquered, ethnically cleansed, or — if you prefer — liberated England before moving on to the slaughter […]
Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges – The Intercept
Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges – The Intercept. A federal jury in Washington, D.C., returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives charged with killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians and wounding scores of others in Baghdad in 2007. The jury found one guard, Nicholas […]
Foreign policy shift puts Canada at risk of armed attacks | Al Jazeera America
Foreign policy shift puts Canada at risk of armed attacks | Al Jazeera America. A drastic shift in Canada’s Middle East policy has put the country “on the map” of international armed groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), analysts say, following two lethal attacks in the span of a week — one […]
George Soros Slams Putin, Warns Of “Existential Threat” From Russia, Demands $20 Billion From IMF In “Russia War Effort” | Zero Hedge
George Soros Slams Putin, Warns Of “Existential Threat” From Russia, Demands $20 Billion From IMF In “Russia War Effort” | Zero Hedge. If even George Soros is getting concerned and writing Op-Eds, then Putin must be truly winning. Here are the highlights from what the Open Society founder has to say about the “existential” Russian […]
What Submarine in Sweden? » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
What Submarine in Sweden? » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names. Lund, Sweden. You have heard that Sweden is hunting a ”submarine” and that it is ”presumed to be Russian”. Here is an example Financial Times of October 21 – which incidentally also announces that the Swedish Prime Minister vows to increase defence spending. Not the slightest […]
ISIS Claims It Hit US Embassy In Baghdad’s Green Zone | Zero Hedge
ISIS Claims It Hit US Embassy In Baghdad’s Green Zone | Zero Hedge. “They know Baghdad. They’ve lived in Baghdad,” said Lt.Col Oliver North, warning over the weekend that sources in Iraq believed ISIS was planning a “major attack” against the embassy in Baghdad. Yesterday we get some confirmation – via ISIS – that they did in […]
The US Can’t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat
The US Can’t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat. America has hung out a shingle: HELP WANTED. Offshore powers — powers beset by few if any overland threats — habitually do. But good help doesn’t come cheap, in world politics as in private industry. One hopes Washington gets this as it tries to accomplish big things […]
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will the U.S. Go to “War” Against Ebola? | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will the U.S. Go to “War” Against Ebola? | TomDispatch. Sometimes, if you want to catch the essence of a moment, however, grim, you need to turn tohumor. Recently, the New Yorker’s resident satirist Andy Borowitz produced one of his patented fake news stories that began this way: “The president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker, […]
ClubOrlov: How to start a war and lose an empire
ClubOrlov: How to start a war and lose an empire. A year and a half I wrote an essay on how the US chooses to view Russia, titled The Image of the Enemy. I was living in Russia at the time, and, after observing the American anti-Russian rhetoric and the Russian reaction to it, I made some observations […]
