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Battle to secure oil, rare minerals and the water – Libya’s Vast Borders Still a No-Man’s Land for Most:

May 21, 2013

Source: Think Africa Press On the outskirts of Ubari, a remote outpost in Libya’s southwest near the Algerian border, armed militia from the Tebu tribe speed across the desert in Toyota trucks towards the sprawling Sharara oil fields. They, along fighters from the town of Zintan further north, are spearheading efforts – under the auspices of [...]

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Syria Defending Itself from the Intrigues of Israel: Al-Qaeda, America, Gulf powers and Tel Aviv

May 21, 2013

Source:MTT The nation of Syria is surrounded by many hostile nations which are openly siding with al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups and the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) which is a proxy of outside nations. In the past Turkey under Prime Minister Erdogan also tried to entangle Syria into a broader conflict because he knows NATO [...]

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Russia to arm Turkey with new military arsenal

May 20, 2013

Source:RBTH As a NATO member, Turkey depends on the supplies of American and European weapons. Moscow has repeatedly tried to get a piece of the action and fascinate the Turkish military with its advanced technology. The first attempt was made at a mid-1990s tender to supply 145 attack helicopters worth $5 billion, when Moscow offered [...]

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How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution

May 17, 2013

Source: FT Related : Qatar bankrolls Syrian revolt with cash and arms A short drive from the rising skyscrapers of Doha’s West Bay, emblems of the once-sleepy Qatari capital’s frenetic growth, the three-starred flag of the Syrian revolution can be seen fluttering over a modern villa guarded by police cars. The villa is the new [...]

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U.S. could use cyberattack on Syrian air defenses

May 16, 2013

Editor’s Note: Electronic Warfare : IDF’s teleprocessing corps C4i , Israel’s high-tech whiz kids, Unit 8200, and W32.Flame and Israel invests millions in drive for elite ‘cyber warriors’: Unit 8200 Source: USA Today The Pentagon has cyberattack capabilities that allow the U.S. military to help blind Syrian air defenses without firing a shot, according to military analysts. “One [...]

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Training for war in a virtual battlespace

May 9, 2013

Source: TPP There is a sandstorm all around, and anything could be hidden up ahead in the haze of central Iraq. As a U.S. Army Humvee edges forward, a burst of gunfire erupts, slamming into the bulletproof glass of the passenger door. For an instant, the world becomes a dizzying mix of frantic steering wheel [...]

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US wants to keep 9 bases after combat troops finish withdrawal in 2014

May 9, 2013

Source: AP|MG The U.S. wants to keep nine bases in Afghanistan after U.S. combat troops withdraw in 2014 which is fine as long as America makes “security and economic guarantees” in exchange, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday in his first public overture in what have been private talks on a future pact between the uneasy [...]

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Chaos in Libya Threatens Entire Sahel Region

May 6, 2013

Source: Al Monitor How easy it is for world powers to mourn the fatigue that sets in following battles, a weariness owing its existence primarily to the reluctance of their electorates to wage extended wars. One example of this battle fatigue came five months after the end of NATO’s first air campaign against Libya (March 19, 2011); [...]

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Germany’s Bold New Counterinsurgency Ideas

May 5, 2013

Source: The Trumpet German-Foreign-Policy.com reports that Germany’s Federal Ministry of Defense has received the results of a study it commissioned seeking advice on counterinsurgency efforts in the wake of U.S. military drawdown in the Northern Hemisphere. Prepared by researchers at the University of Kiel, “the counterinsurgency study calls inter alia for the stricter centralization of [...]

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American/Saudi Covert Operations In Chechnya : BCCI,Ricin, Diamonds, Stingers

April 30, 2013

Source: Sri Lanka Guardian As the Cold War between the USSR and the USA drew down in the early 1990’s, organizations/institutions used to fund proxy wars—and destabilization efforts–between the two Empires became exposed. With the Cold War ostensibly over, the corrupt and illegal actions of such groups could no longer be ignored, or covered up, [...]

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C.I.A., warlords, paedophilia bazaar, looting, drug trafficking – Afghanistan heading for ‘civil war’ when west withdraws in 2014

April 29, 2013

Editor’s Note: Are there covert strategies to foment a future civil war in Afghanistan? The West has no intention of withdrawing from Afghanistan. Global Opium trade and sex trafficking rings are fueling clandestine operations to rig elections, conduct regime changes, assassinations,drone strikes all off the books. You all get the point. Related Article: CIA’s paramilitary [...]

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We tried to weaponize the weather

April 27, 2013

Source: Salon The years between the ﬁrst hydrogen bomb tests and the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963 saw more than just increased anxiety about the eﬀects of nuclear testing on weather. They also saw increased interest in large-scale, purposeful environmental modiﬁcation. Most climate modiﬁcation enthusiasts spoke of increasing global temperatures, in the hopes that [...]

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Hegemonic transitions

April 16, 2013

Source: RK Throughout the human history empires have risen and fallen. In its praxis the subordinate states survive under the implied means of power, the threat of force, rather than by direct military force by the leader state. After the end of cold war US dictated internal politics and social character of the subordinate states [...]

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Global Special Operations Forces Network

April 12, 2013

Source: Heritage A recent Washington Post op-ed asked the question, “[C]an the U.S. rely on SOF [Special Operations Forces] power?” As the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, and a combination of defense budget reductions and isolationist sentiments reduce America’s military presence, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) intends to expand its “non-kinetic” actions across the globe. The answer to the WaPo author’s question [...]

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Karabakh Tangle: Regional powers mulling moves as tension mounts between Armenia, Azerbaijan

April 5, 2013

Source: AN A special envoy of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast, was on a three-day visit to Armenia earlier this week to hold various meetings with Armenian officials. During a press conference on the results of his visit he said that Tehran was ready for mediation in the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. [...]

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Russian bomber conducts practice strikes on U.S. missile defenses in Asia

April 5, 2013

Source: WT A Russian bomber recently carried out simulated cruise missile attacks on U.S. missile defenses in Asia, raising new questions about Moscow’s goal in future U.S.-Russian defense talks. According to U.S. officials, a Russian Tu-22M Backfire bomber on Feb. 26 simulated firing air-launched cruise missiles at an Aegis ship deployed near Japan as part of U.S. missile defenses.

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Central Asia: between Russia and China

April 2, 2013

Source: TZ Central Asia is home to some 65 million people living in five countries: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Since they gained independence just over 20 years ago, the political landscape has remained depressing. The region has rampant corruption, ethnic tensions and conflict and border disputes. Human rights violations are widespread, while civil [...]

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Foreign Intervention in Elections

April 1, 2013

Source: Kashmir Watch Intervention in the affairs of less developed countries by the most developed states is due to the unjust world order. Unlike the small countries, the US-led major western countries have the decision-making power in the UN Security Council, IMF and World Bank. Even with or without the assent of the Security Council, [...]

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United Nations has a project codenamed “Syria – The Day After”

April 1, 2013

Source: Al Jazeera Here is what the main stakeholders in Syria are planning in the event of a major change in the conflict: United Nations UN planners have been looking at a range of options. They fear that if Assad is eventually defeated, there could be widespread retribution against his minority Alawite sect, and the swift [...]

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Rumblings of Russia’s Afghan re-entry

March 29, 2013

Source: Hindu Russia appears set to stage a re-entry into the Afghan theatre by establishing military maintenance bases inside the strife-torn nation after the withdrawal of NATO forces next year. These facilities are meant to service Russian military equipment routed through NATO to the Afghan armed forces. For several years the Pentagon has been purchasing [...]

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Nigeria: Mali and the New Cold War

March 21, 2013

Source: All Africa Just after World War II when American State Department planners were assigning each part of the world its “function” within the overall system of US domination, Africa was considered unimportant. George Kennan, head of the State Department’s policy planning staff, advised that Africa should be handed over to Europe to “exploit” for [...]

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US report says Turkey could be drawn into war with Syria, Iran

March 21, 2013

Source: TZ A new report by a Washington-based think tank has claimed that Turkey could be inadvertently drawn into war with the Syrian regime and possibly Iran, which would trigger collective defense obligations for the United States and other NATO allies. The report titled “The Turkey, Russia, Iran Nexus: driving forces and strategies” by Center [...]

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Slowly bleed a sovereign nation to it’s death by perpetual war

March 20, 2013

Slowly bleed a sovereign nation to it’s death by perpetual war. It is obvious the war in Syria is heavily influenced by external forces. A global proxy war to see who first will gain the upper hand in this strategic region of the globe. Russia, Iran , France , Qatar, Saudi Arabia, U.S. , Britain, [...]

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Commander: Some NATO nations making contingency plans for possible military action in Syria

March 19, 2013

Source: WP The top U.S. military commander in Europe said Tuesday that several NATO countries are working on contingency plans for possible military action to end the two-year civil war in Syria as President Bashar Assad’s regime accused U.S.-backed Syrian rebels of using chemical weapons. The Obama administration rejected the Assad claim as a sign [...]

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NATO Proxies Using WMD’s in Syria – Dozens Dead

March 19, 2013

Source: Land Destroyer March 19, 2013 (LD) – After a 10 year war/occupation in Iraq, the death of over a million people including thousands of US soldiers, all based on patently false claims of the nation possessing “weapons of mass destruction,” (WMDs), it is outrageous hypocrisy to see the West arming, funding, and politically backing [...]

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The Role of MI6, ISI, CIA and Iran in Afghanistan and region crisis

March 19, 2013

Source: KP Afghanistan is considered to have a highly strategic value during the 21st century in southern and central Asian regions, owed to its geopolitical situation and untapped mineral resources. The country has proven to be a key inhibitor for the newly formed republics in central Asia besides having a high influence and pressure on [...]

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Turkey and the transatlantic alliance

March 17, 2013

Source: Zaman I previously argued in this column that of all the members of the transatlantic alliance, it is clearly Turkey that has the most at stake in the destabilization of the Middle East. There is a new paradigm of change in the Middle East. A major part of this change is pressure for democratization. [...]

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Ex-ISI chief sees civil war in Pakistan after US Afghan pullout

March 14, 2013

Source: AN Gen. Hamid Gul, a former chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan and one of the architects of “Afghan Jihad” possesses a rich knowledge about Pakistan’s politics and its relationship with Afghanistan. In a wide-ranging interview with Urdu News, he spoke about the ramifications of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan for the neighboring [...]

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Afghanistan 2015: The Dawn of a Regional Opium War?

March 13, 2013

Source: Yale Journal The security transition plan(1) in Afghanistan is a high-risk political game. Decreasing the presence of foreign troops is not just a military strategy; it signifies a concomitant reduction in international commitment to Afghanistan after 2014. This development could spell disaster for Afghanistan’s counter-narcotics policy, which relies heavily on international donors for military [...]

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