What few people outside military strategy circles know, is that missile defense, even primitive, is as one leading American missile defense strategist put it, “the missing link to a nuclear first strike capability.” If the United States is able to deploy missile defense on Russia’s borders and Russia has none, the US has won World War III and is in a position to dictate terms of unconditional surrender to Russia, its dismemberment as a viable nation, its entire dismantlement. Little wonder that Putin reacted.
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Tagged Bush Doctrine, china, Creative-i on Russia, Eurasia, europe, georgia, india, NATO, south ossetia, Ukraine, usa, Zbigniew Brzezinski
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A most widely-cited factor behind the recent U.S. wars of choice is said to be oil. “No Blood for Oil” has been a rallying cry for most of the opponents of the war. While some of these opponents argue that the war is driven by the U.S. desire for cheap oil, others claim that it [...]
Source: MRzine
The past week has been a wild roller-coaster ride in and out of Southern African ruling-party politics, down the troughs of world capitalism, and up the peaks of radical social activism. Glancing around the region and world from those peaks, we can see quite a way further than usual.
Looking first to South Africa, [...]
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Tagged ANC, Bank of America, Blade Nzimande, capitalism, Cyril Ramaphosa, Investec, Jacob Zuma, Matthews Phosa, Mbhazima Shilowa, Merrill Lynch, Neoliberal, Nigeria, Robert Mugabe, Shell, south africa, Thabo Mbeki, Tokyo Sexwale, Trevor Manuel, Tsvangirai, world bank, zimbabwe, Zwelinzima Vavi
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Former Vice-President José Vicente Rangel, currently works as an investigative journalist, identified the Venezuelan opposition, the Colombian government, the domestic and international media, and the U.S. government as the four principal agents involved in the coup planning.
RIA Novosti military commentator
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 23, 2008
Hydrocarbon prices, new nuclear and hydro-power plants, oil blackmail – energy is now one of the central issues discussed in the world. Even the defense sector is not immune: many analysts tend to view most 20th century wars as wars for energy.
The role and significance of energy [...]
These times provide a crash course on the corporate state:
If a company like AIG is too big to fail, the government will rescue it. Mere people — too small to matter — are expendable.
The insurance industry is too big to fail. A person’s health is [...]
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