‘Peace Dividend’ Gives Way To Combat Aircraft
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By Jaya Ramachandran
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
BERLIN (IDN) – ‘Peace dividend’ – a buzzword in early 1990s – has long been consigned to oblivion, presumably because there were no peace dealers willing to convince both democratic and autocratic regimes around the world of the economic benefit of a [...]
POLITICS: Afghanistan Spy Contract Goes Sour for Pentagon
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Pratap Chatterjee*
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) – Mike Furlong, a top Pentagon official, is alleged to have run a covert network of contractors to supply information for drone strikes and assassinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the U.S. government.
The contract built upon his decade-long experience in running propaganda [...]
MIDEAST: U.S.-Israeli Tensions Escalating Quickly
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Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) – The crisis touched off by last week’s announcement of Israel’s plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem during a high-profile visit by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden appears to be escalating rapidly.
Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to [...]
DISARMAMENT: Despite Recession, Global Arms Race Spirals
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 15 (IPS) – The global financial crisis has not deterred some of the world’s developed and developing nations from bolstering their military arsenals with expensive new weapons systems, including sophisticated fighter planes, combat helicopters, submarines, armoured vehicles and air defence systems.
The five largest [...]
POLITICS: Policy Battle over Afghan Peace Talks Intensifies
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Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) – The struggle within the Barack Obama administration over Afghanistan policy entered a new phase when the president suggested at a meeting of his ”war cabinet” Friday that it might be time to start negotiations with the Taliban, according to a [...]
Wars sending U.S. into ruin Pt.2
The Real News Network
March 15, 2010
Eric Margolis: Democrats and Republican leadership buy into “Pax Americana”
MIDEAST: An Unlikely Collision Takes Place
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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Mar 15, 2010 (IPS) – In the middle of last week, it seemed that the old cliché about the light at the end of the dark Middle East tunnel was being confirmed: the U.S. had successfully cajoled both Israel and [...]
Wars sending U.S. into ruin
TheRealNews
March 14, 2010
Eric Margolis: Obama the peace president is fighting battles his country cannot afford.
PAKISTAN: THE MESSAGE OF THE MINGORA BLAST
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.630
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B.RAMAN
Seventeen persons—- including two policemen and one soldier of the Pakistan Army— were killed in a suicide attack at a checkpoint jointly manned by police and military personnel at Mingora, the principal town (capital) of the Swat Valley of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) on March [...]
US-ISRAEL: Tiff or Tipping Point?
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Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (IPS) – ”Condemn” is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue of a U.S. politician addressing anything having to do with actions, however objectionable, by Israel.
So it was no surprise that close observers of U.S. Middle East policy sat [...]
Perfidy In The Shadow Of Highly Touted Friendship
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By Ernest Corea
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – Senator George Mitchell, the Obama Administration’s special envoy for the Middle East, is expected somehow to keep the planned Palestinian-Israeli “proximity talks” process alive, despite the Government of Israel’s attempt to pull the plug on it.
Whatever [...]
ANTI-ARMY ANGER REMAINS STRONG IN PAKISTAN
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR— PAPER NO. 629
Global Geopolitics Net Sites
B.RAMAN
The two suicide attacks against army vehicles in the Cantonment area of Lahore on March 12,2010, which caused 45 fatalities, nine of them of military personnel, were followed by six low-intensity blasts in non-military areas which did not cause any fatalities. The Pashtun Tehrik-e-Taliban [...]
THE MAOIST INSURGENCY IN INDIA
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B.RAMAN
Given below are my replies to a set of questions on the Maoist insurgency in India e-mailed to me by a journalist of a Brazilian online journal:
1 Who are the Maoists in India nowadays?
The Maoists are the cadres of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), who are fighting [...]
CHINESE DEFENCE BUDGET: SUSPICIONS OF FUDGING PERSIST
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B.RAMAN
At a proposed total expenditure of 532.11 billion yuan ( US Dollars 78.25 billion), the Chinese defence budget presented to the National People’s Congress (NPC), the Parliament, in session in Beijing since March 5,2010, represents a 7.5 percent increase over last year’s spending. In 2009, the defence budget increased by 14.2 per [...]
Rep. Dennis Kucinich Takes on Democratic Leaders with Insistence on Public Option, Call for Afghan Withdrawal
Democracy Now!
March 11, 2010
Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich joins us to discuss two House debates in which he’s played a central role this week. The Ohio Democrat is threatening to vote against his party’s healthcare reform package because it does not contain a robust public option.
MIDEAST: Israel Lands in Public Relations Nightmare
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Mel Frykberg
JERSUSALEM, Mar 14 (IPS) – Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50.
Outside the walled Old City, and in several West Bank villages, clashes were reported between [...]
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