• Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan (Global Research) -- “Managed Chaos” is the proper term to describe the tensions in NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan and the border zones of Pakistan. Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are...
• The Next Crisis: Spiralling Inflation (The Intelligence Daily) -- The US economy contracted for four consecutive quarters since October 2008, something we have not seen since the Great Depression. A V-shaped recovery is simply not in the...
• Obama signs bills for record Pentagon, Homeland Security spending (WSWS) -- In a ceremony Wednesday, US President Barack Obama signed legislation authorizing the largest ever military budget, a gargantuan $680 billion for the Pentagon, including $130 billion...
• Who is behind NY Times leak on Karzai brother's CIA ties? (WW4 Report) -- Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a suspected player in the country's booming opium trade, has received regular payments from the CIA for much of the...
• ABC Of West’s Global Military Network: Afghanistan, Baltics, Caucasus (The Intelligence Daily) -- The century’s longest war continues to rage in South Asia with no sign of abating. Instead, the invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 has exploded into endless...
• NATO vs CSTO: The Fogh of war (The Intelligence Daily) -- ‘Regional’ defence organisations are very much in transition, notes Eric Walberg NATO’s reputation as the guardian of peace on Earth is in tatters...
• US companies, governments continue to slash jobs and pay (WSWS) -- The US economy continues to shed jobs, wreaking havoc on countless lives, even as government officials prepare to announce the official end of the recession that began in December 2007....
• US Strategic Interests in Latin America: The Militarization of Colombia (GR) -- It is not difficult to obtain information related to the many social movements and progressive political mechanisms working to implement social reforms throughout contemporary Latin America....
• Mind Your Tweets: CIA and European Union Building Social Networking Surveillance (The Intelligence Daily) -- That social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups...
• Bulgaria, Romania: U.S., NATO Bases For War In The East (The Intelligence Daily) -- U.S. efforts in Romania and Bulgaria are part of a global redeployment strategy started in the early years of the Bush administration to shift U.S. forces out of Germany...
• AFRICOM Year Two: Taking The Helm Of The Entire World (The Intelligence Daily) -- “The developments come as the White House seeks grounds to establish a major military presence in Africa….[A]nalysts caution that similar pretexts were used to...
• Karzai bows to US pressure on Afghanistan runoff (WSWS) -- In an action that was as predictable—and as degrading—as a serf prostrating himself before his master, the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, bowed to relentless pressure...
• Great Power Confrontation in the Indian Ocean: The Geo-Politics of the Sri Lankan Civil War The support and positions of various foreign governments in regards to the diabolic fighting between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan military, which cost the lives of thousands of innocent...
• U.S. behind Pakistan offensive (Socialist Worker) -- Snehal Shingavi looks at the political calculations behind the Pakistani military's massive assault on the Taliban in Waziristan province.UNDER GROWING pressure from the U.S.,...
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