Entries Tagged as ‘Imperial Power’

November 23, 2009

CIA / US is behind ALL insurgency and terrorism in Pakistan – Webster Tarpley

Published: Nov. 23, 2009 – Pak Alert Press
Webster G. Tarpley is an author, investigative journalist, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. Tarpley maintains that the September 11 attacks were engineered by a rogue network of the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies. His writings and speeches describe a model of false flag [...]

November 23, 2009

US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America

From the Caribbean to Brazil, political opposition to US plans for ‘full-spectrum operations’ is escalating rapidly
by Hugh O’Shaughnessy
Published: Nov. 22, 2009 – The Independent
The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non-nuclear strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean by acquiring unprecedented freedom of action in seven new military, naval and [...]

November 23, 2009

“Why we fight”: The Nature of Modern Imperialism

Aggressive and exclusive military alliances like NATO should be disbanded
by Alan Mackinnon
First Published: Nov. 17, 2009 – Scottish Left Review
The world of war is today dominated by a single superpower. In military terms the United States sits astride the world like a giant Colossus. As a country with only five per cent of the world’s [...]

November 22, 2009

Protecting Afghan Opium Fields, Bribing Taliban

Obama Allies Want New Tax. Despite the fact that 36 per cent of income tax already goes to national defense
by Paul Joseph Watson
First Published: Nov. 20, 2009 – Prison Planet
Not content with savaging American taxpayers with two huge new financial burdens during an economic recession, in the form of health care reform and cap and [...]

November 20, 2009

The Pentagon Budget: Largest Ever and Growing

by Sara Flounders
First Published: Nov. 07, 2009 – International Action Center
On Oct. 28, President Barack Obama signed the 2010 Defense Authorization Act, the largest military budget in U.S. history.
It is not only the world’s largest military budget but is larger than the military expenditures of the whole rest of the world combined. And it [...]

November 17, 2009

Global Warfare USA: The World is the Pentagon’s Oyster

US military operations in all major regions of the World

“Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze) and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups and [...]

November 16, 2009

Order Out of Chaos: CIA, Blackwater Responsible for Bombings, Assassinations in Pakistan (With Video)

by Kurt Nimmo
Published: Nov. 15, 2009 – Infowars
Newspapers in Pakistan have accused the United States of using Blackwater and other agencies to conduct bombings and targeted assassinations in the country, according to MEMRI translations. MEMRI is a neocon propaganda outfit with connections to Israeli intelligence.
“Evidence of the private U.S. security firm Blackwater’s involvement in the [...]

November 15, 2009

U.S. Military Agenda: Destabilizing Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal?

by Sherwood Ross
Published: Nov. 09, 2009 – Global Research
Washington has been negotiating secret and “highly sensitive understandings” to “provide added security for the Pakistani arsenal in case of a crisis,” investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports.
“The secrecy surrounding the understandings was important because there is growing antipathy toward America in Pakistan, as well as a history [...]

November 13, 2009

US army uses video games as part of recruitment drive

Published: Nov. 12, 2009 – Uruknet.info
As its troops continue to face lengthy and mutiple tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States is looking at new ways to attract potential army recruits.
The US military says the economic downturn and rising unemployment are sending more and more young people into their recruiting offices.
As Monica [...]

November 9, 2009

The Annexation of Colombia to the US

by Fidel Castro
First Published: Nov. 06, 2009 – Cuba.cu
Anyone with some information can immediately see that the sweetened ‘Complementation Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Governments of Colombia and the United States’ signed on October 30, and made public in the evening of November 2, amounts to the annexation of [...]

November 5, 2009

Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III

This is Part 2 of the Series, “The Origins of World War III”
Part 1: An Imperial Strategy for a New World Order: The Origins of World War III

by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Published: Nov. 03, 2009 – Global Research
Introduction
Following US geo-strategy in what Brzezinski termed the “global Balkans,” the US government has worked closely with major NGOs [...]

November 4, 2009

America is performing its familiar role of propping up a dictator

As in Vietnam, Karzai is going to rule over an equally tiny island of corruption
by Robert Fisk
Published: Nov. 04, 2009 – The Independent
Could there be a more accurate description of the Obama-Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? First the Palestinians held fair elections in 2006, voted for Hamas and [...]