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2012/03/232012/03/23

Chuck Spinney: The Afghan Bill – Cause, Effect, Consequences

AFGHANISTAN Who’s Going to Foot This Bill? By CHUCK SPINNEY, Time Battleland, March 23, 2012 William Pfaff has written a stunning critique of Obama’s policy in Afghanistan — and what its implications are for what is left of the American republic. Note particularly the estimates for sustaining the American-created Afghan National Security Force after 2014: $4.1 …

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2012/03/182012/03/18

Chuck Spinney: Obama & Netanyabua — Scorpions in a Bottle

How two scorpions trapped in a bottle weaken each other while they strengthen Hamas and Iran and increase the risks of nuclear proliferation throughout the Middle East. Attached is an excellent explanation of this. Not addressed specifically, but nevertheless implicit in the discussion is the universal influence of domestic politics in the shaping or a …

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2012/03/16

Chuck Spinney: Investigating NATO’s War Crimes Against Libya

Investigations Around Libya NATO’S Craven Coverup of Its Libyan Bombing by VIJAY PRASHAD, Counterpunch, March 15, 2012 Ten days into the uprising in Benghazi, Libya, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council established the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya. The purpose of the Commission was to “investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law in …

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2012/03/15

Chuck Spinney: Syria Case Study of Mass Mind Numbing

One of the ironies of the rise of the so-called information age is that the information content of the mainstream media has plummeted, while its practice of yellow journalism in the interest of warmongering has skyrocketed. From the Arab-Israeli conflict to the non coverage of the murderous effects of sanctions in Iraq in the 1990s, …

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2012/03/14

Chuck Spinney: No War with Iran, Settlements Open Game?

Did Obama Take Netanyahu’s Cape? The threat of an imminent attack on Iran by Israel or the US seems to be receding, perhaps because Obama stepped back and let the warmongers overplay their hand. No doubt, the White House narrative will trumpet its success in avoiding another war if the reduction in war hysteria continues. …

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2012/03/12

Chuck Spinney: Koch Brothers, Cato, Why Nations Fail

The Koch Brothers, The Cato Institute, And Why Nations Fail Simon Johnson, Baseline Scenario, 8 March 2012 A dispute has broken out between the Cato Institute, a leading libertarian think tank, and two of its longtime backers – David and Charles Koch. The institute is not the usual form of nonprofit but actually a company with …

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2012/03/12

Chuck Spinney: Is Israel on Cusp of Grand Strategic Set-Back as Universities Mobilize (Precedent South Africa)?

Grand strategy (described here) can be generalized as a game of interaction and isolation. Viewed from this perspective, Israel’s grand strategy has been to maintain or increase its freedom of action in implementing the expansive Zionist apartheid/colonialist agenda, to include gaining control of the region’s scarce water resources (see here), by — (a) preying on the collective …

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