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Global military complex

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments

The fight for energy, the need to provide for and control the increasing population and the lust for power are driving the planet toward a massive military showdown.
Since the dawn of the 21st century, five of the six countries involved in the six-party talks have increased their military spending by 50% or more. The sixth, […]

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Tags: Pre-emptive nuclear strike · Global economy · Energy · Military Keynesianism · Energy independence · Military industrial complex · National security · Empire · Defense · 2008 · Iraq · Climate Change · Sustainability · China · Arms · Politics

Scott Ritter on the Iraq tragedy

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Scott Ritter, former weapons inspector, writes on Truthdig about the dismal future for the Iraqi people.
Rather than offering a word-for-word renouncement of the president’s rosy assertions concerning Iraq, I will instead initiate a process of debunking the myth of American success by doing that which no politician, current or aspiring, would dare do: predict the […]

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Tags: Defense · Scott Ritter · Arms · Media · Iraq · Politics

US hand in nuclear arsenal

November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Arms sales are a tricky business and will often come back to haunt you. Take for example, US made surface to air missiles now being used against our own forces in Afghanistan. The road they traveled to come into the hands of the resurgent Taliban is not so long, nor so hard to […]

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Tags: Afghanistan · Arms · Pakistan · Iran