A War in the Planning for Four Years
Posted: April 23, 2014 Filed under: Imperial Power, New World Order, World Hegemony | Tags: Central Asia, Michael Ruppert, The Grand Chessboard, Zbigniew Brzezinski 1 Commentby Michael Ruppert
From The Wilderness Publications, November 2001
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) at globalresearch.ca 11 November 2001
Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CFR Put War Plans in a 1997 Book – It is “A Blueprint for World Dictatorship,” Says a Former German Defense and NATO Official Who Warned of Global Domination in 1984, in an Exclusive Interview With FTW
Summary
“THE GRAND CHESSBOARD – American Primacy And It’s Geostrategic Imperatives,” Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997.
These are the very first words in the book, “Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power.” – p. xiii. Eurasia is all of the territory east of Germany and Poland, stretching all the way through Russia and China to the Pacific Ocean. It includes the Middle East and most of the Indian subcontinent. The key to controlling Eurasia, says Brzezinski, is controlling the Central Asian Republics. And the key to controlling the Central Asian republics is Uzbekistan. Thus, it comes as no surprise that Uzbekistan was forcefully mentioned by President George W. Bush in his address to a joint session of Congress just days after the attacks of September 11 as the very first place that the U.S. military would be deployed.
As FTW has documented in previous stories, major deployments of U.S. and British forces had taken place before the attacks. And the U.S. Army and the CIA had been active in Uzbekistan for several years. There is now evidence that what the world is witnessing is a cold and calculated war plan – at least four years in the making – and that, from reading Brzezinski’s own words about Pearl Harbor, the World Trade Center attacks were just the trigger needed to set the final conquest in motion.
The Afghan War: “No Blood for Opium”
Posted: July 22, 2011 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power | Tags: Afghan Opium, Afghanistan, Central Asia, CIA Destabilization Operations, CIA Drug Operations, Taliban, US Army 5 CommentsThe Hidden Military Agenda is to Protect the Drug Trade
by Dr. John Jiggens
Published: Apr. 21, 2010 – Global Research
It was common during the opening of the Iraq war to see slogans proclaiming “No blood for oil!” The cover story for the war – Saddam’s links with Al Qaida and his weapons of mass destruction – were obvious mass deceptions, hiding a far less palatable imperial agenda. The truth was that Iraq was a major producer of oil and, in our age, the Age of Oil, oil is the most strategic resource of all. For many it was obvious that the real agenda of the war was an imperialistic grab for Iraqi oil. This was confirmed when Iraq’s state-owned oil company was privatised to western interests in the aftermath of the invasion.
Why then are there no slogans saying “No blood for opium!”? Afghanistan’s major product is opium and opium production has increased remarkably during the present war. The current NATO action around Marjah is clearly motivated by opium. It is reported to be Afghanistan’s main opium-producing area. Why then won’t people consider that the real agenda of the Afghan war has been control of the opium trade?
The Elite, the ‘Great Game’ and World War III
Posted: June 8, 2011 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, New World Order, Problem Reaction Solution, War on Terror, World Hegemony, World War III | Tags: Bilderberg Group, Central Asia, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Edward Bernays, Federal Reserve, Global Elite, Henry Kissinger, International Banksters, Mind Control, One World Government, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Tavistock Institute, Trilateral Commission, USA, Zbigniew Brzezinski 11 Commentsby Prof. Mujahid Kamran
First Published: Jun. 2011 – New Dawn Special Issue 16
The control of the US, and of global politics, by the wealthiest families of the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. This control began in Europe and has a continuity that can be traced back to the time when the bankers discovered it was more profitable to give loans to governments than to needy individuals.
These banking families and their subservient beneficiaries have come to own most major businesses over the two centuries during which they have secretly and increasingly organised themselves as controllers of governments worldwide and as arbiters of war and peace.
Unless we understand this we will be unable to understand the real reasons for the two world wars and the impending Third World War, a war that is almost certain to begin as a consequence of the US attempt to seize and control Central Asia. The only way out is for the US to back off – something the people of the US and the world want, but the elite does not.
Bin Laden Hoax to Expand War
Posted: May 4, 2011 Filed under: Propaganda, War on Terror, World Hegemony | Tags: Balochistan, Bin Laden, Central Asia, China, Drone Attacks, Obama's Wars, Pakistan, Project for the New American Century 6 CommentsGlobalist think-tanks are already building a case against Pakistan
by Tony Cartalucci
Published: May 02, 2011 – Land Destroyer Report
Bangkok, Thailand May 3, 2011 – Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (FDD) scribe and all around intellectually dishonest propagandist, Bill Roggio of the “Long War Journal,” has dedicated his life to perpetuating the entirely fake “War on Terror,” abandoning all objectivity with the very name of his now officially government funded, Neo-Conservative establishment affiliated blog. The term “Long War” of course is a throwback to the Bush era and constant reassurances by the president that indeed the “War on Terror” will be endless.
The Logic of Imperial Insanity and the Road to World War III
Posted: January 18, 2011 Filed under: Imperial Power, New World Order, World Hegemony, World War III | Tags: AFRICOM, Central Asia, China, CIA Destabilization Operations, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), International Banksters, Obama's Wars, One World Government, Yemen, Zbigniew Brzezinski 17 Commentsby Andrew Gavin Marshall
Published: Jan. 14, 2011 – Global Research
In the late 1990s Brzezinski wrote up the design for America’s imperial project in the 21st century in his book, “The Grand Chessboard.” He stated bluntly that, “it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America,” and then made clear the imperial nature of his strategy:
To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.[1]
2011: U.S. And NATO To Extend And Expand Afghan War
Posted: December 27, 2010 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Central Asia, NATO, Obama's Wars 7 Commentsby Rick Rozoff
Published: Dec. 25, 2010 – Global Research
The war being waged by the United States and the Western military alliance it controls, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is well into its tenth year and is already the longest war in the history of the U.S., Afghanistan and NATO alike. In fact it is NATO’s first ground war and its first armed conflict in Asia.
It has now graduated into a broader war, having engulfed neighboring Pakistan with a population of 170 million and a nuclear arsenal.
The U.S. has suffered reverses in the past week and half with the death of Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke on December 13 and the recall of the Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Pakistan, Jonathan Banks, on December 16, the day the White House issued its annual policy review on the protracted and increasingly deadly war in Afghanistan.
As of December 23, American and NATO military fatalities for this year are at 705, almost a third of the total 2,275 killed since the war was launched on October 7, 2001.
War on Terror is a Fraud
Posted: December 10, 2010 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, War on Terror, World Hegemony | Tags: Central Asia, International Banksters, Multinational Corporations, Neocons, USA 11 Commentsby Prof. Akhbar Navees
Published: Nov. 30, 2010 – PakPotPourri
The US today is, temporarily, the world’s foremost power. It is a country whose people are blessed with wonderful qualities of the head and heart. They are honest, hardworking problem solvers, large-hearted, decent and deeply innocent. The emergence of the US as a power with the greatest ever reaches in human history is the result of a conscious and sustained effort on the part of Washington to make America a great power.
Central to this nation-building process was the key emphasis on cultivating and creating knowledge of nature, and of the high-level of integrity and commitment of the average American. However, the evolution of the US Public State, as a genuine democracy with the ability to unify mankind on a broad basis, has been derailed consistently, and perhaps irreversibly, by corporate cliques that have taken the US on the path of global conquest and exploitation of the poor but resource-rich countries. This path will eventually lead to USA’s defeat, beginning in Central Asia, and its rapid and bloody decline in a decade or two, unless, of course, the Americans can bring to book those criminal cabals which currently control, chain and exploit this great nation.
Who Is Osama Bin Laden?
Posted: September 12, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power, Problem Reaction Solution, World Hegemony | Tags: 9/11, Afghan Opium, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, Central Asia, Chechnya, CIA, CIA Drug Operations, Oil, Pakistan, Taliban 13 Comments
by Michel Chossudovsky
First Published: Sep. 12, 2001 – Global Research
A few hours after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Bush administration concluded without supporting evidence, that “Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organisation were prime suspects”. CIA Director George Tenet stated that bin Laden has the capacity to plan “multiple attacks with little or no warning.” Secretary of State Colin Powell called the attacks “an act of war” and President Bush confirmed in an evening televised address to the Nation that he would “make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them”. Former CIA Director James Woolsey pointed his finger at “state sponsorship,” implying the complicity of one or more foreign governments. In the words of former National Security Adviser, Lawrence Eagleburger, “I think we will show when we get attacked like this, we are terrible in our strength and in our retribution.”
Meanwhile, parroting official statements, the Western media mantra has approved the launching of “punitive actions” directed against civilian targets in the Middle East. In the words of William Saffire writing in the New York Times: “When we reasonably determine our attackers’ bases and camps, we must pulverize them — minimizing but accepting the risk of collateral damage” — and act overtly or covertly to destabilize terror’s national hosts”.
The following text outlines the history of Osama Bin Laden and the links of the Islamic “Jihad” to the formulation of US foreign policy during the Cold War and its aftermath.
Secret order prepares new US wars in Middle East and Central Asia
Posted: May 26, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Central Asia, US Army 8 Commentsby Hiram Lee
Published: May 26, 2010 – WSWS
A front-page article in Tuesday’s New York Times reveals the existence of a secret directive signed by Gen. David Petraeus, chief of the US Central Command, ordering the expansion of covert military operations throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa. The seven-page document, entitled “Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force Execute Order,” essentially provides the US military with a blank check to carry out aggressive acts against virtually any country.
Afghan Heroin Flow Channeled to Russia
Posted: May 26, 2010 Filed under: Illegal Occupation | Tags: Afghan Opium, Afghanistan, Central Asia, CIA Drug Operations 8 Comments
by Alexander Barentsev
First Published: May 24, 2010 – Strategic Culture Foundation
According to head of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Assistant Secretary of State D. Johnson, the US State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report should reject the idea of opium poppy crop eradication.
The production of narcotics in Afghanistan has gone up 40-fold since the country’s occupation by the NATO forces. Precursor chemicals are imported to Afghanistan from Pakistan and other countries including some of the EU members. Massive injection of liquidity into poppy harvesting is in many cases disguised as the financing of agricultural activities, and Afghanistan hosts the full cycle of illicit drug production comprising opium poppy cultivation, conversion into heroin and opium at some 400 drug facilities, stockpiling, and wholesale supply to the Afghan and Pakistani drug markets.
Iran’s Natural Gas Riches: US Knife to the Heart of World Future Energy
Posted: March 18, 2010 Filed under: Economy, World Hegemony | Tags: Central Asia, China, Gas, Iran, Oil, USA 7 Comments
by Finian Cunningham
Published: Mar. 18, 2010 – Global Research
The scheduled start of drilling this month by China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) in Iran’s South Pars gas field could be both a harbinger and explanation of much wider geopolitical developments.
First of all, the $5 billion project – signed last year after years of foot dragging by western energy giants Total and Shell under the shadow of US-led sanctions – reveals the main arterial system for future world energy supply and demand.
Critics have long suspected that the real reason for US and other western military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is to control the Central Asian energy corridor. So far, the focus seems to be mainly on oil. For example, there have been claims that a planned oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea via Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea is the main prize behind the US’s seemingly futile military campaign in those countries.
Zbigniew Brzezinski: Evil Spirit of 5 US Presidents – And Biggest Threat to World Peace
Posted: February 11, 2010 Filed under: Global Warming?, New World Order, War on Terror, World Hegemony, World War III | Tags: Al Gore, Al Qaeda, Bilderberg Group, Central Asia, CIA, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Gaia, Obama, Oil, One World Government, Rockefeller, Trilateral Commission, Zbigniew Brzezinski 39 Comments
by Anders
Published: Feb. 07, 2010 – Euro-med.dk
Summary: There is a man who is more dangerous to mankind than any other living person today. His name is Zbigniew Brzezinski, a CFR-member , Arch-Trilateral Commissionist, Bilderberger. He has been the evil spirit behind 5 US presidents, including Obama – and he is obsessed with but one thought: The US is to dominate a communist one world state. For that purpose, he sees Eurasia as his grand chessboard, where the battle is to be won. Like any chessplayer, he starts by occupupying the centre of the chessboard, Central Asia. He wants peace there, friendly arrangements, in particular with China, if possible, so that he can pursue the goal of his obsession, i.e the purpose of the Trilateral Commission created by him and David Rockefeller: To create a world state by fusing a coming North American Union, at which he is working through the CSIS, the Union for the Mediterranean – and a Far East block which is now being created. His aim is a communist one world state where Russia, which he hates, is subdued by being split into 3 republics in a loose confederation – and if that is not possible – then ultimately even by WW III. He and David Rockefeller are behind the fusion of world religions for peace in the world state. In stead he collaborates with Al Gore and Gorbachev to promote the environmental Gaia religion. In the Agenda 21 state people in the technetronic era will be totally controlled and via artificial intelligence (brain chipping) become posthuman robots. He has worked on selling US infrastructure like harbours, outsourcing US jobs, giving the Panama Canal to the Chinese, selling illegal weapons to the Soviet, Iran, Iraq, Libya. He nurtured the Taliban and Al Qaida and ignored Islamic fundamentalism. Advised by Zbigniew and his son, Ian, Obama is now encircling Russia and China, which has not been so cooperative as wanted by Zbigniew, with anti-ballistic missiles which can also be used to inactivate Russian and Chinese satellites, so as to hinder retaliation after a US first strike against the nuclear arsenals of those countries. Russia knows and is preparing for the possibility of having to deliver a preemptive attack – according to the chief of the Russian Joint Staff, Yuri Baluyevsky. These considerations are probably being accentuated by the fact that Russia can hardly afford a fresh weapons race. However, Brzezinski does not believe in Russia´s capacity to strike!
Al Qaeda – The Invented Hydra for the New World Order´s False Flag Operations
Posted: January 8, 2010 Filed under: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Imperial Power, New World Order, Problem Reaction Solution, Propaganda, War on Terror, World Hegemony | Tags: 9/11, AfPak, Al Qaeda, Bush, Central Asia, CIA, False Flags, Gordon Brown, Guantanamo, Obama's Wars, One World Government, Patriot Act, Torture, WTC, Yemen, Zbigniew Brzezinski 31 Comments
by Anders
Published: Jan. 05, 2010 – Euro-med.dk
Summary: Everything seems to suggest that 9/11 was an inside job, an excuse to initiate Brzezinski’s “Grand Chess-board” – military operations in Central Asia in order to submit it to the New World Order World Government. More and more people think so – and are therefore skeptical when new “terrorist attacks” occur. An attempt by a Nigerian in a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit to detonate a bomb triggered suspicions of a false flag action by U.S. government in order to create the right panic to renew the unconstitutional Patriot Act in Congress in February. There is also suspicion that the USA has plans to deploy its military in Yemen, where the terrorist is said to have had his insufficient education. Mr. Obama and Gordon Brown claim that Yemen is haunted by Al-Qaeda fighters who have fled Afghanistan and Pakistan and are now making the world unsafe from Yemen. There will probably just ensue some bombing and a police expeditionary force, as the U.S. cannot cope with a new front. Besides, A Somali Shabab/”Al-Qaida” sympathizer in Denmark has tried to collect the 1 mio. dollar reward and a ticket to Allah´s Paradise for killing a Muhammad-cartoonist.
On the basis of the Nigerian´s failure which occurred under very strange circumstances, the United States, Britain and Spain have now closed their embassies in Yemen for fear of Al-Quaida – and Obama promises to defuse these hateful warriors – an echo of President Bush in 2001.
But the question is whether Al-Qaeda is anything more than a convenient scapegoat and an excuse for the New World Order with the U.S. and Britain at the forefront to be used for promoting their policies. A BBC study concludes that Al-Qaeda never existed, and the very Council on Foreign Relation’s Magazine, “Foreign Affairs”, states that Al-Qaeda consists of only 200 frightened warriors who try to hide in Pakistan’s mountains. Al-Quaida has not been able to establish any network in the U.S. and the FBI has not found a single Al-Quaida cell nor seen just one single Al-Quaida attack in the entire world! A look back at 9/11 also shows strange situations. There is several credible evidence that the “hijackers” are alive and well-off after 11 Sept! There is only 1 person convicted for 9/11 involvement in the U.S. – and that happened on false evidence and because of the man’s aggressive threats. In other cases, there have been confessions after up to 183 waterboardings in a month – but no convictions, only Guantanamo! A judge ruled that the CIA and other government agencies lied with regard to 9/11 “evidence”
So,everything suggests that “Al-Quaida” has just been conveniently invented by the U.S.
Depleted Uranium a tool to depopulate the world
Posted: December 22, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Agent Orange, Bilderberg Group, Bill Cooper, Bush, Bush-Nazi Connection, Central Asia, Club of Rome, Crimes Against Humanity, Depleted Uranium, Depopulation Agenda, Fallujah, Henry Kissinger, Iraq, Rockefeller, Wall Street, Zbigniew Brzezinski 16 Commentsby Sepp Hasslberger
Published: Apr. 09, 2006 – IndyBay.org
War, Epidemics, Depopulation – Rough Times Ahead Having read this article of Justin Raimondo yesterday, I caught a glimpse of a vision of destruction. Something that might await us just around the bend, like starting in less than two-weeks’ time, when Iran is scheduled to open their new oil bourse where black gold will be traded in Euro, not in Dollars.
If you consider the dangers of man made pandemics, such as AIDS and the successor to last year’s SARS, the Bird Flu, the scourge of depleted uranium or even just of the normal application of pharmaceutical medicine, which has become one of the major causes of death, it does not take a vivid imagination to see destruction awaiting a significant part of the planet’s population…
… unless, of course, we should manage to wake up in time and take back control from those who would lead us to the brink of extinction to forward their policy objective of a marked reduction in population numbers.
A New World War for a New World Order
Posted: December 18, 2009 Filed under: II Cold War, Imperial Power, New World Order, Propaganda, World Hegemony, World War III | Tags: AfPak, Africa, Central Asia, China, CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations, Georgia, Henry Kissinger, Hounduras, Hugo Chavez, IMF, Iran, Latin America, Media, Multinational Corporations, NATO, Neocons, Obama's Wars, Oil, Pentagon, Russia, School of the Americas, US Army, World Bank, Zbigniew Brzezinski 26 CommentsThe Origins of World War III: Part 3
This article is Part 3 in the Series, “The Origins of World War III.”
Part 1: An Imperial Strategy for a New World Order: The Origins of World War III
Part 2: Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Published: Dec. 17, 2009 – Global Research
Introduction
In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, I have analyzed US and NATO geopolitical strategy since the fall of the Soviet Union, in expanding the American empire and preventing the rise of new powers, containing Russia and China. This Part examines the implications of this strategy in recent years; following the emergence of a New Cold War, as well as analyzing the war in Georgia, the attempts and methods of regime change in Iran, the coup in Honduras, the expansion of the Afghan-Pakistan war theatre, and spread of conflict in Central Africa. These processes of a New Cold War and major regional wars and conflicts take the world closer to a New World War. Peace can only be possible if the tools and engines of empires are dismantled.
Obama Declares War On Pakistan
Posted: December 15, 2009 Filed under: Imperial Power, War Crimes, World Hegemony | Tags: AfPak, Balochistan, Blackwater, Central Asia, CIA, NATO, Nuclear Weapons, Obama's Wars, Oil, Pakistan, Pashtuns, Zbigniew Brzezinski 2 Comments
by Webster Tarpley
Published: Dec. 12, 2009 – Rense.com
WASHINGTON, DC — Obama’s West Point speech of December 1 represents far more than the obvious brutal escalation in Afghanistan — it is nothing less than a declaration of all-out war by the United States against Pakistan . This is a brand-new war, a much wider war now targeting Pakistan , a country of 160 million people armed with nuclear weapons. In the process, Afghanistan is scheduled to be broken up. This is no longer the Bush Cheney Afghan war we have known in the past. This is something immensely bigger: the attempt to destroy the Pakistani central government in Islamabad and to sink that country into a chaos of civil war, Balkanization, subdivision and general mayhem. The chosen strategy is to massively export the Afghan civil war into Pakistan and beyond, fracturing Pakistan along ethnic lines. It is an oblique war using fourth-generation or guerrilla warfare techniques to assail a country which the United States and its associates in aggression are far too weak to attack directly. In this war, the Taliban are employed as US proxies. This aggression against Pakistan is Obama’s attempt to wage the Great Game against the hub of Central Asia and Eurasia or more generally.
Making the TransAfghanistan Pipeline Safe for Democracy
Posted: December 7, 2009 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, World Hegemony | Tags: Afghanistan, Central Asia, CIA, Enron, Hamid Karzai, Multinational Corporations, Neocons, Obama's Wars, Oil, Project for the New American Century, Taliban, TransAfghanistan Pipeline, Unocol 5 Comments
by McCamy Taylor
Published: Dec. 05. 2009 – DemocraticUnderground
Intro.
I don’t pretend to know why President Obama is so determined to escalate the war in Afghanistan, the country that drove the Soviet Union into bankruptcy. Maybe he covets the executive privilege that goes with being a war time president. Maybe he is courting the center and center-right in anticipation of the 2012 election. Maybe he does not want to bring too many troops home all at once for fear of worsening the economic recession at home. Maybe he is scared of being called a waffler a flip flopper or some other unpleasant name if he goes back on his word. Maybe he is afraid that terrorists will attack the mainland U.S. again and he will be blamed for ending one of Bush’s foreign wars too soon. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
The only thing I know for certain is that the troops will not be back home until after 2014. That is when the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline is scheduled to be operational.
The Audacity of Ethnic Cleansing: Obama’s plan for Afghanistan
Posted: December 5, 2009 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Afghanistan, AfPak, Bosnia, Central Asia, Hamid Karzai, NATO, Obama, Obama's Wars, Pashtuns, Pentagon, Taliban 18 Comments“Today, we Afghans remain trapped between two enemies: the Taliban on one side and US/NATO forces and their warlord hirelings on the other.” Malalai Joya “A Woman Among the Warlords” Scribner Publishing, New York
by Mike Whitney
Published: Dec. 04, 2009 – Information Clearing House
The Bush administration never had any intention of liberating Afghanistan or establishing democracy. The real aim was to remove the politically-intractable Taliban and replace them with a puppet regime run by a former-CIA asset. The rest of Afghanistan would be parceled-off to the warlords who assisted in the invasion and who had agreed to do much of the United States dirty-work on the ground. In the eight years of military occupation which followed, that basic strategy has never changed. The U.S. is just as committed now as it was at the war’s inception to establish a beachhead in Central Asia to oversee the growth of China, to execute disruptive/covert operations against Russia, to control vital pipeline routes from the Caspian Basin, and to maintain a heavy military presence in the most critical geopolitical area in the world today.
“Why we fight”: The Nature of Modern Imperialism
Posted: November 23, 2009 Filed under: Economy, Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Africa, British Army, Central Asia, China, Globalisation, IMF, Military Industrial Complex, Multinational Corporations, NATO, Oil, Pentagon, Russia, UK, United Nations, US Army, USA, World Bank 24 CommentsAggressive 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 population it accounts for almost 50 per cent of global arms spending. Its 11 naval carrier fleets patrol every ocean and its 909 military bases are scattered strategically across every continent. No other country has reciprocal bases on US territory – it would be unthinkable and unconstitutional. It is 20 years since the end of the Cold War and the United States and its allies face no significant military threat today. Why then have we not had the hoped-for peace dividend? Why does the world’s most powerful nation continue to increase its military budget, now over $1.2 trillion a year in real terms? What threat is all this supposed to counter?
Expanding the Afghan War: The West’s insatiable appetite for Global Military Domination
Posted: September 14, 2009 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, World Hegemony | Tags: Afghan War, Central Asia, NATO, Rick Rozoff 12 Comments
by Rick Rozoff
Published: Sep. 13m 2009 – Media Monitors
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. and NATO immediately moved on Central Asia, and the war in Afghanistan has provided them with the opportunity to gain domination over all of South as well as Central Asia and to undermine and threaten the existence of the only regional security bodies – the SCO and CSTO – which could counteract the West’s drive for control of Eurasia.”
The United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are expanding their nearly eight-year war in Afghanistan both in scope, with deadly drone missile attacks inside Pakistan, and in intensity, with daily reports of more NATO states’ troops slated for deployment and calls for as many as 45,000 American troops in addition to the 68,000 already in the nation and scheduled to be there shortly.
The NATO bombing in Kunduz province on September 4 may well prove to be the worst atrocity yet perpetrated by Western forces against Afghan civilians and close to 20 U.S and NATO troops have been killed so far this month, with over 300 dead this year compared to 294 for all of 2008.
The scale and gravity of the conflict can no longer be denied even by Western media and government officials and the war in South Asia occupies the center stage of world attention for the first time in almost eight years.
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