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The Battlefield is Dead
The traditional arena of war is no more. Will it give way to a perpetual continuum of military and paramilitary violence? The image of the battlefield is one that exerts a powerful hold on our […]
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Clash of civilisations 2
Over the last 16 years, numerous debates have troubled the experts in international politics in their attempts to define the objectives of US strategy. It is obviously much easier to answer the question now rather […]
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Here’s What Would Happen If Donald Trump Nuked North Korea
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Maybe this is why so many Americans wonder why they can’t just nuke a country posing a risk to their security. With an arsenal of […]
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Kremlin Issues Stern Warning to Washington Over US Help for Terrorists in Syria
By Dr. Gilbert Doctorow From time to time, the Kremlin uses the Sunday evening weekly news wrap-up program of Dmitry Kiselyov on state television channel Rossiya-1 to send blunt and public warnings to Washington without diplomatic niceties. Last […]
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THE PENTAGON IS PREPARING A NEW WAR IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
Political Islam against China You are probably aware that you are incompletely informed about what is brewing in Myanmar, and you probably haven’t heard about the military coalition that is preparing to attack that country. […]
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Rival Superpower Strategies: World War III with China
How It Might Actually Be Fought By Alfred W. McCoy [This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred W. McCoy’s new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global […]
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Here’s Every Nuclear Weapon in the US Arsenal
By Union of Concerned Scientists There are enough nuclear weapons in the US arsenal to blow up the planet several times. The explosive capacity (blast yield) of one W87 thermonuclear bomb is 300 kilotons of TNT, […]
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Very Dangerous Escalation in Syria
By now many of you must have heard the news: a Russian Lieutenant-General, Valery Asapov, and two Colonels have been killed in what appears to be a very precisely targeted mortar attack. Just as in the […]
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The Day of the Generals: Winning Armageddon
By Phil Butler In a room, somewhere deep inside the Pentagon generals and admirals met recently in order to prepare an assessment for the United States Senate Armed Services Committee. Present at the metering were General Mark […]
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Unmasked: Trump Doctrine Vows Carnage for New Axis of Evil
North Korea, Iran, Venezuela are targets in “compassionate” America’s war on the “wicked few.” It’s almost as though Washington felt its hegemony threatened by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times This was no “deeply philosophical address”. And hardly a […]