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2014/04/292014/04/29

Richard Falk: Nonviolent Geopolitics – Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security

Nonviolent Geopolitics: Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security* In this short essay, my attempt will be to articulate a conception of a world order premised on nonviolent geopolitics, as well as to consider some obstacles to its realization. By focusing on the interplay of “law” and “geopolitics” the intention is to consider the role played …

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2014/04/262014/04/26

Jim Dean: Alexander Orlov on USA Implosion in Middle East — “Going, Going, Gone…”

NEO – USA in Mid East – Going, Going, Gone [Veteran’s Today Editor’s note: Alexander brings us more analysis from the Russian perspective at this critical time. The US seems to be rolling the dice in a desperate game to create instability on Russia’s border, establish an offensive base in the Ukraine, threaten Russia gas …

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2014/04/242014/04/24

Evan Ellis: Latin America Engagement with China

Latin America’s Foreign Policy as the Region Engages China Security and Defense Studies Review (Volume 15 / 2014) This article examines the foreign policy of Latin America and the Caribbean toward the People’s Republic of China. It finds that, for those nations recognizing Taiwan most Latin American nations have had relatively few political differences with …

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2014/04/232014/04/23

Neal Rauhauser: Central African Republic Maps

Updated Central African Republic Maps The Central African Republic’s troubles were obvious to foreign policy watchers a year ago and now conflict has boiled over into outright ethnic cleansing. As a former French colony the best sources on this area are still in French and as a resource poor, land locked area there simply wasn’t …

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2014/04/212014/04/21

Chuck Spinney: Toxic Alliance – Neo-Cons and “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) War-mongers

This email continues the theme I introduced with How Obama’s Rhetoric Reinforces America’s Grand Strategic Pathway to Catastrophe. Attached beneath my introduction is an brilliant essay, The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance, written by Robert Parry of Consortium News. Parry describes how propaganda produced by this domestic alliance of convenience among a non-representative minority of unelected influence peddlers …

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2014/04/192014/04/19

Jim Dean: Iranian Defensive Weapons Update — PSYOP or Not, Iran is Not Iraq —

[ Editors Note: Once again we see a steady stream of evidence coming out of Iran as to how our wonderfully unbrilliant threatening foreign policy has forced them into a “Manhattan Project” level commitment to increase its domestically manufactured defensive weapons systems. At the top of the list has been missile development following the Russian …

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2014/04/182014/04/18

Steven Aftergood: History of CIA Covert Action Against Iran in 1954

HISTORY OF 1953 CIA COVERT ACTION IN IRAN TO BE PUBLISHED In 1989, the Department of State published a notorious volume that purported to document U.S. foreign policy towards Iran in the early Eisenhower Administration. The volume triggered an avalanche of criticism because it omitted any mention of the CIA’s role in a 1953 covert …

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