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Russia Holds Black Sea Military Drills ‘Under NATO’s Watchful Eye’
GlobalResearch
NOVOROSSIISK — The Russian Black Sea Fleet practiced an amphibious landing of troops on the coast of Abkhazia as a nearby NATO vessel observed, a Russian Navy source said on Wednesday.
Russia finds NATO global reach plan “disturbing”
Reuters
18 Feb 2010
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is concerned that a new strategy blueprint under development by NATO would allow the alliance to use force worldwide, Russia’s foreign minister was reported as saying on Thursday.
U.N. Rejects ‘Militarization’ of Afghan Aid
Rod Nordland/NYT
KABUL, Afghanistan — Senior United Nations officials in Afghanistan on Wednesday criticized NATO forces for what one referred to as “the militarization of humanitarian aid,” and said United Nations agencies would not participate in the military’s reconstruction strategy in Marja as part of its current offensive there.
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Afghanistan
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, whose gloomy assessment of the war last summer prompted the White House to boost troop levels, said Thursday that conditions are no longer deteriorating and predicted further improvements this year.
“I am not prepared to say that we have turned the corner,” Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal told a group of [...]
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Pentagon Confronts Russia In The Baltic Sea
Rick Rozoff / Global Research / Stop NATO
Twelve months ago a new U.S. administration entered the White House as the world entered a new year.
Two and a half weeks later the nation’s new vice president, Joseph Biden, spoke at the annual Munich Security Conference and said “it’s time to press the reset button and to [...]
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Swine Flu
Drug companies manipulated the World Health Organisation into downgrading its definition of a pandemic so they could cash in on a swine flu outbreak, it is claimed.An inquiry heard yesterday that the WHO allegedly softened its criteria for declaring a H1N1 flu pandemic last spring – just weeks before announcing there was a worldwide [...]
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Iran
The United States used “online warfare” to stir up unrest in Iran after last year’s elections, the Chinese Communist party newspaper claimed today, hitting back at Hillary Clinton’s speech last week about internet freedom.An editorial in the People’s Daily accused the US of launching a “hacker brigade” and said it had used social media such [...]
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Dangerous Crossroads: U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian Border
Nuclear and Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled
Rick Rozoff / Global Research
2010 is proceeding in a manner more befitting the third month of the year, named after the Roman god of war, than the first whose name is derived from a pacific deity.
On January 13 the Associated Press reported that the White House will submit its Quadrennial [...]
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Afghanistan
The head of NATO said on Tuesday there would be no deadline for the exit of allied troops from Afghanistan, as fears grow among Afghans that foreign forces will leave before their own troops are able to guarantee security.
Serbia
President Boris Tadic submits membership request but failure to arrest Ratko Mladic remains obstacle to process. Serbia [...]
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