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NATO is a Goldmine for the US/Military Industrial Complex
NATO is a Goldmine for the US/Military Industrial Complex Photo source Parker Gyokeres | CC BY 2.0 Countries of the NATO military alliance have been ordered by President Trump to increase their spending on weapons, and the reasons for his insistence they do so are becoming clearer. It’s got nothing to do with any defense […]
Nord Stream 2’s Confusing Endgame
Nord Stream 2’s Confusing Endgame The summer of 2018 will go into history as the moment when a US president fundamentally and decisively changed the international world order which its predecessors worked hard on during the past decades. Within approximately a week from 11 July until 16 July, President Donald Trump achieved to insult its […]
Psychoanalysing NATO: Gaslighting
Psychoanalysing NATO: Gaslighting NOTE: Because “NATO” these days is little more than a box of spare parts out of which Washington assembles “coalitions of the willing”, it’s easier for me to write “NATO” than “Washington plus/minus these or those minions”. Home Secretary Sajid Javid has called on Russia to explain “exactly what has gone on” after […]
Lessons That Should Have Been Learned From NATO’s Destruction of Libya
Lessons That Should Have Been Learned From NATO’s Destruction of Libya Photo by Bernd.Brincken | CC BY 2.0 The summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military alliance that is expanding its deployments of troops, combat and surveillance aircraft and missile ships around Russia’s borders, took place on July 11-12 and was a […]
NATO is a Con Game
NATO is a Con Game Marc Riboud Forbidden City under the snow, Beijing 1957 Okay, well, Trump did it again. Antagonizing allies. This time it was Germany that took the main hit, over the fact that it pays Russia billions of dollars for oil and gas while relying on the US for its defense … […]
America First, Helsinki, and Trump’s Existential Threat to the Empire
America First, Helsinki, and Trump’s Existential Threat to the Empire The major – perhaps only – redeeming virtue of the Donald’s ersatz campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America’s commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to discard “Regime Change” as the core tenant of foreign […]
No Need For Nato
No Need For Nato A NATO summit approaches that brings Donald Trump to Europe and then on to these shores, and brings the usual clamour for more of the taxpayers’ money to be given to arms manufacturers. Yet NATO is a demonstrably useless institution. It’s largest ever active military deployment, for 12 years in Afghanistan, […]
Turkey and India Have Leverage in Trump’s Iran Sanction War
Turkey and India Have Leverage in Trump’s Iran Sanction War Both India and Turkey have said they will defy President Trump’s call for them to stop buying Iranian oil once the U.S. reapplies sanctions in November. That isn’t really news. Both of them defied the Obama administration in 2012, albeit in different way. Turkey changed its […]
Carrier USS Truman Deployed To Atlantic As Russian Submarine Activity Surges
Carrier USS Truman Deployed To Atlantic As Russian Submarine Activity Surges Russia is modernizing its submarine force around Europe to directly challenge American naval dominance — greater than any other period since the Cold War, Admiral James Foggo told Stars and Stripes in an interview last week. The commander said the U.S. must expand its […]
The European Intervention Initiative: a New Military Force Established in Europe
The European Intervention Initiative: a New Military Force Established in Europe The predictions have come true about the emergence of a new defense group that will change the European security environment. On June 25, the defense chiefs from nine EU countries signed off on the creation of a new force called the European Intervention Initiative (EII), which […]
NATO Sabre Strike Exercise: Scaring Russia with Multiple War Games of Unparalleled Scale
NATO Sabre Strike Exercise: Scaring Russia with Multiple War Games of Unparalleled Scale This year, NATO has already organized about 100 exercises, 20 percent more compared to the same period in 2017. Saber Strike-2018, a large-scale US-led exercise involving 18,000 soldiers from 19 NATO members and partner nations, kicked off on June 3 to last […]
US Challenges Russia to Nuclear War
US Challenges Russia to Nuclear War Now that the United States (with the cooperation of its NATO partners) has turned the former Soviet Union’s states other than Russia into NATO allies, and has likewise turned the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact allies into America’s own military allies in NATO, the United States is finally turning the screws […]
The US’s Fingerprints Are All Over Nicaragua’s Bloody Civil Unrest
The US’s Fingerprints Are All Over Nicaragua’s Bloody Civil Unrest Bloody protests against Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega’s government have the United State’s fingerprints all over it. Over 100 people have been killed since the civil unrest broke out in mid-April and it doesn’t take much to realize the US government is fueling the bloodbath. According to RT, the […]
Who Needs Enemies?
Who Needs Enemies? Vittorio Matteo Corcos Conversation in the Jardin du Luxembourg 1892 Obviously, there are tensions between Europe and the US. Just as obviously, these tensions are blamed on, who else, Donald Trump. European Council President Donald Tusk recently said: “With friends like Trump, who needs enemies?” EU Commission chair Jean-Claude Juncker even proclaimed […]
Facebook & Atlantic Council unite: Now social media giant serves NATO’s agenda
Facebook & Atlantic Council unite: Now social media giant serves NATO’s agenda © NurPhoto / Getty Images Facebook has engaged a think tank funded by weapons manufacturers, branches of the US military and Middle-Eastern monarchies to safeguard the democratic process. It’s akin to hiring arsonists to run the fire brigade. If Facebook truly wanted to “protect […]
