By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
Posted on November 12, 2008, Printed on November 12, 2008
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So, Vladimir Putin was right: It was Georgia that started the war with Russia, and once again it was President Bush who got caught in a lie. As the New York Times reported last week, “Newly available accounts by independent military observers of [...]
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By Mark Ames, The Nation
Posted on October 28, 2008, Printed on October 29, 2008
You may not have noticed it, but a couple of weeks ago, the New York Times slipped in a story that completely contradicted a narrative that it had been building up for two straight months, one that was leading America into another war-a [...]
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Russia will offer to share its air defence expertise with Cuba when a military delegation visits the Caribbean island this week, Interfax news agency reported on Monday.
“The Russian and Cuban military will exchange experience in organising tactical air defence and in training officers,” Interfax quoted Russian Land Forces spokesman Igor Konashenkov as saying.
The two sides [...]
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from Crooks and Liars by Cernig
The Russians aren’t fooled by continual protestations that America’s missile defense plans are aimed at “rogue states” - none of whom yet has the capability of throwing a nuke at the U.S. and who probably would choose infiltration as a delivery method in any case. They’ve been beefing up their [...]
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Agence France-Presse
Published: Sunday October 12, 2008
MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia test-fired three long-range missiles on Sunday and pronounced its nuclear deterrent strong in a show of force that experts said had not been seen since the days of the Cold War.
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h/t: blacklistednews.com
The Stability-2008 strategic maneuvers of the Russian armed forces are gaining momentum.
On Monday, Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear-H and Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers began training flights with full combat payloads and the live firing of cruise missiles at practice targets.
The Stability-2008 strategic exercise, which began Sept. 21 in Russian and Belarusian territory and at sea, [...]
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War.
The Kremlin recently has moved to intensify contacts with Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American nations amid increasingly strained relations with [...]
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h/t: sott.net
David Morgan
Reuters
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:11 EDT
Washington - The U.S. military began moving its Cold War command center from deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, without fully analyzing potential security threats posed by the relocation, a report said on Thursday.
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By NICHOLAS KULISH and TOM RACHMAN
WARSAW — Despite fierce opposition from Moscow, the United States and Poland signed a long-stalled agreement on Wednesday to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to be keeping his options open
Kevin O’Flynn in Moscow and James Hider, Middle East Correspondent
Syria raised the prospect yesterday of having Russian missiles on its soil, sparking fears of a new Cold War in the Middle East. President Assad said as he arrived in Moscow to clinch a series of [...]
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out… and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel…. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for ‘the universal brotherhood of man’ - with his mouth… Mark Twain
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