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Technical concerns: Why Russia worries about NATO's missile defense

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - By Ivanka Barzashka - May. 14 (Special Report) - The Russians’ main technical concerns included fast interceptor missiles that might be fielded in northern Europe near Russia’s borders, making them possible threats to Moscow’s strategic deterrent.

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Will NATO Finally State How Many Tactical Nukes it has in Europe (and where they are)?

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Francesco Calogero, Giorgio La Malfa - Mar. 19 (Special Report) - Francesco Calogero and Giorgio La Malfa explore options for NATO to finally state the exact number and locations of its tactical nuclear weapons in the upcoming Defense and Deterrence Posture Review. The article explores why this should happen and what a likely response from Russia would be.

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NATO Forced to Admit Air Strikes Killed Dozens of Libyan Civilians, Contradicting Initial Denials

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 22 (News Report) - NATO has admitted for the first time Libyan civilians were killed and injured during its seven-month bombing campaign that led to the ouster and death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The acknowledgment came after a New York Times investigation revealed at least 40 civilians, and perhaps more than 70, were killed by NATO air strikes, including at least 29 women or children. Others were killed when NATO warplanes bombed ambulance crews and civilians who were attempting to aid the wounded injured in earlier strikes. We speak to New York Times senior reporter Eric Schmitt, who co-wrote the investigation with C.J. Chivers. "We only saw a small sampling of the strike sites that may have been affected, so the death toll is probably much larger," Chivers says. [includes rush transcript]

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NATO Kills 24 Pakistani Troops in 2-Hour Assault on Pakistani Base, Tensions Flare in Region

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 28 (News Report) - NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two remote Pakistani military outposts on Saturday killing at least 24 Pakistani soldiers. The air strike took place along the Afghanistan border in Pakistan's tribal district of Mohmand. Pakistan has said the attack was unprovoked, but a senior Kabul-based Western official claims NATO and Afghan forces came under fire and responded in self defense. Pakistan responded Saturday by blocking vital supply routes for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, and demanded the United States vacate a base used to launch drone attacks. We speak with Glenn Greenwald, constitutional law attorney and political and legal blogger for Salon.com. “We may never know what happened here. ... But what is clear is that the endless war that the United States has been engaged in since 9/11 does not seem to be in sight of ending. Quite the contrary, it seems to be escalating by the week,” Greenwald says. [Rush transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Afghanistan Helicopter Crash: NATO Troops Recover Copter Pieces

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Baldor, Dozier, Quinn, Faiez - Aug. 08 (News Report) - KABUL, Afghanistan -- International military forces worked on Monday to recover every last piece of a Chinook helicopter that crashed over the weekend, killing 30 American troops, seven Afghan soldiers and an Afghan interpreter, NATO said. German Brig. G

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Former Libyan Diplomat on His Defection and Call for Intensification of NATO Operations

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Apr. 19 (News Report) - NATO intervention in Libya has been ongoing for four weeks, and the country appears locked in a military stalemate. We are joined by Ibrahim Dabbashi, the Libyan deputy ambassador to the United Nations who defected after Gaddafi's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters and now represents the Transitional National Council of Libya. “[Gaddafi] is leaving,” says Dabbashi, “but how long he will stay in power, this is the question... If the operations of NATO intensify with the coming back of the U.S., I think it will take only some weeks. But if it continues at the same level as it is now, I think it will take some months.”

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Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can Reach the U.S.

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Hudson New York - By Anna Mahjar-Barducci - Dec. 08 (News Report) - Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt, of November 25, 2010. According to the article, an agreement between the two countries was signed during the last visit o Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Tehran on October 19, 2010. The previously undisclosed contract provides for the establishment of a jointly operated military base in Venezuela, and the joint development of ground-to-ground missiles.

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The Financial Puzzle Behind 9/11

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By David DeGraw - Oct. 22 (Special Report) - During the 1980s and early ’90s, the CIA worked in partnership with BCCI in what was, at the time, the agency’s largest covert operation ever, pumping an estimated $10 billion into funding the Afghan mujahedeen. Through this operation, Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network was formed. Bin Laden had accounts in BCCI and ran CIA/BCCI-funded camps.

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NATO Supply Trucks Attacked In Pakistan: Suspected Militants Destroy 27 Oil Tankers

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Aaron Favila - Oct. 01 (News) - Suspected militants set ablaze at least 27 tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday, police said.

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Afghanistan: the new strategy

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Ben Gilbert - Aug. 16 (Special Report) - Kandahar is a city built mostly of mud, clay and straw — the available building materials in this harsh climate. The city’s wide avenues and narrow warrens seem to be perpetually suspended in a haze of dust from the desert that is not far in any direction.

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A Western Crackdown on WikiLeaks

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Philip Shenon - Aug. 10 (News Report) - The Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges against Julian Assange for his Afghan war leaks. Philip Shenon reports.

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Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Tom Engelhardt - Aug. 06 (News Analysis) - the Secretary of Defense told interviewer Christiane Amanpour that, whatever Assange's legal culpability might be, when it came to "moral culpability... that's where I think the verdict is guilty on Wikileaks." Moral culpability. From the Martian point of view, it might have been considered a curious phrase from the lips of the man responsible for the last three and a half years of two deeply destructive wars that have accomplished nothing and have been responsible for killing, wounding, or driving into exile millions of ordinary Iraqis and Afghans.

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Afghanistan: In Marjah, a cautionary tale

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jean MacKenzie, Mohammad Ilyas Dayee - Aug. 03 (Special Report) - Marjah, the focus of a much-hyped battle just a few short months ago, said to herald “the turning point of the war,” is now a dangerous and volatile place.

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Afghans Protest Deadly Nighttime Raid: "If the Americans Do This Again, We Are Ready to Shed Our Blood Fighting Them"

Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 17 (News Report) - Mourners continued to gather on Saturday in the small farming village of Koshkaky, in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, where an early Friday morning raid by US and Afghan Special Forces left eight people dead. The military issued a statement saying that their forces came under attack, and in the firefight a Taliban subcommander and seven militants were killed. They reported that no civilians were harmed. But residents here tell a different story. Independent journalist Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films was at the scene and filed this report. [includes rush transcript]

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Secret Erik Prince/Blackwater Tape Exposed

Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Jeremy Scahill - May. 03 (Investigative Report) - Now we know why Erik Prince won't allow the media into his speeches. After all, he's admitting to war crimes - and also to working in countries the U.S. government denies using his company. Yoo hoo, mainstream media!

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AT WAR: Baradar's Successors

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Nicholas Sabloff , Nico Pitney - Mar. 23 (News) - The story behind the story about the NATO massacre in Paktia. On March 15, Jerome Starkey reported in The London Times that he found evidence contradicting NATO's official story about what happened to a family in Afghanistan's Paktia province during a night raid. Contrary to NATO's assertions that a pro-government family was killed by Taliban militants, Starkey found that members of the family--including two pregnant women--died during NATO's night raid, and not at the hands of the Taliban, as NATO claimed.

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Russia and the West have a very bad day

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Miriam Elder - May. 01 (News Report) - MOSCOW — It was meant to be a day of fresh starts, as officials from Russia and NATO sat down for their first formal talks since breaking off relations last summer in the midst of the Georgia war. Instead, NATO expelled two top Russian diplomats after accusing them of spying and Russia signed a treaty strengthening its ties with the separatist regions at the center of the controversial war. Are Russia’s relations with the West doomed to fail?

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Noam Chomsky on US Expansion of Afghan Occupation, the Uses of NATO, and What Obama Should Do in Israel-Palestine

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman - Apr. 03 (News Analysis) - We’re now approaching the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, unification of Germany, first steps in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, the alleged reason for NATO’s existence was to protect the West against a Russian assault. You can believe what you like about the reason, but that was the reason. By 1989, that reason was gone. So, why is there NATO?

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After G20, Mass Protests Await Obama at NATO Meeting

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Andreas Speck, Amy Goodman - Apr. 02 (News Report) - After the G20 talks, President Obama will stop in France and Germany to take part in a NATO summit marking its sixtieth anniversary. Mass demonstrations are expected with thousands of protesters from over twenty European countries and the United States. We go to Strasbourg to speak with Andreas Speck, a member of War Resisters International and one of the lead organizers of the protests against the NATO summit.

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Medvedev orders large-scale Russian rearmament

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

spacewar.com - Mar. 17 (News Report) - President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday announced a "large-scale" rearmament and renewal of Russia's nuclear arsenal, accusing NATO of pushing ahead with expansion near Russian borders.

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