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November
2009
This is one among many realities that we wish would be too bad to be true. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, the prominent right-wing spiritual leader in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has openly condoned Jews killing any non-Jews, including children and babies, who pose a threat to Israel. In his new book, the warmongering Rabbi asserts: “If a gentile endangers the existence of Israel, it is allowed to kill him. Also if he is completely not to blame for the situation that has been created.” He might have well said that a genocide of non-Jews (no doubt referring primarily to Arabs) along Holocaust lines is kosher too…
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10
November
2009
Where is a Third World War most likely to be sparked? For at least a decade before World War One began, those most concerned knew that the ongoing arms race was leading to disaster, as did those who sat on the sidelines and watched Germany and Japan build up to World War Two. World policy wonks have taken a long sigh of relief after the Cold War ended some twenty years ago yesterday, but in so doing have been all too lax at identifying– and diffusing– actual “hotspots” that are likely to trigger a global conflict on the scale of the World Wars, or bigger if you consider the nuclear capabilities of the countries involved. Here are three possibilities…
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October
2009
Halloween seems to be coming early to the largest and most powerful military alliance in existence anywhere today, if not ever. The former head of Canada’s armed forces, a longtime member of NATO command whose soldiers are still at the front line in Afghanistan, characterizes the organization as “a corpse decomposing and somebody’s going to have to perform a Frankenstein-like life-giving act by breathing some lifesaving air through those rotten lips into those putrescent lungs or the alliance will be done.” This is also a clear indication of more fundamental and yet unaddressed issues about NATO…
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15
October
2009
Tensions between the two most populous countries totaling about one third of world inhabitants were ratcheted up a notch this week, with no resolution in sight. Indian Prime Minister Singh strongly objected to China’s new and ongoing commercial projects in Pakistan and the disputed territories it controls in Kashmir. Within a wider context from China’s point of view, this is only one more step towards total domination of Central Asian natural resources and industry, highlighted by China’s monopolies on most such resources in Afghanistan, to NATO’s and the U.S.’s great dismay…
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September
2009
Warning: the following is not for the weak at heart or those easily excitable by all things military. Chinese annual military expenditures have increased 230% since 1998 (guess how this compares to the U.S.), among other freaky facts about national military expenditures around the world…
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22
September
2009
The benevolent boulder that was President Obama’s momentous announcement last week that the U.S. will abandon George W. Bush’s planned missile shield in Eastern Europe has already begun a massive series of ripples across all the globe’s oceans…
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15
September
2009
U.S. Admiral Timothy Keating, who heads the Hawaii-based U.S. Pacific Command covering East Asia, is in his own words “very confident, almost certain, that there will be — maybe some discussions about certain aspects of US-Japan military alliance — but writ large no significant change.”
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8
September
2009
Five years after a breakthrough deal by which the Irish Republican Army (IRA) said farewell to arms, its last remaining primary opponent, the Ulster Defense League (UDA), agreed to do the same by February 2010…
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1
September
2009
It is beyond moronic to call any war “serious,” as General McChrystal did in his briefing. Is any war not serious? Was the Afghan war some kind of children’s game before now, and has suddenly become a “serious” matter worthy of adult attention?
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August
2009
For the fist time since wartime atrocities began in Darfur six years ago, the region’s peacekeeping chief has declared that hostile military actions have ceased. However, this does not mean the there is peace in Darfur.
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