Selected Articles: Towards the Globalization of War? “New Militarism” and Escalating Violence in the Middle East
Netanyahu’s War on Palestine. Premeditated State Terror
By Stephen Lendman, October 11 2015
Netanyahu’s premeditated state terror against defenseless Palestinians continues. Multiple Israeli provocations began things. Palestinians responded in self-defense as expected and justified. Israel calls it terrorism.
US to Give Arms, Air Support to Islamist Militias in Syria
By Bill Van Auken, October 11 2015
The Obama administration Friday announced an “operational pause” of the disastrously failed Pentagon program for arming and training “vetted rebels” in Turkey and sending them back across the border into Syria.
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, October 11 2015
The world is beginning to realize that a seachange in world affairs occured on September 28 when President Putin of Russia stated in his UN speech that Russia can no longer tolerate Washington’s vicious, stupid, and failed policies that have unleashed chaos, which is engulfing the Middle East and now Europe.
Low Intensity Conflict (LIC) and the Scourge of the “New Militarism”: Covert Ops, Proxy Terrorist Armies, Air Raids, PR Campaigns, Economic Warfare
By Florian Zollman, October 11 2015
Western militarism constitutes, next to climate change and poverty, the world’s greatest scourge. As internationally acclaimed Canadian academic Michel Chossudovsky has pointed out, NATO’s aggressive expansion into Eurasia and the Middle East has brought about the possibility of a “World War Three scenario.”
The Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK): The US Prepares to Back a New Terrorist Army in Iran, Prelude to a Wider War?
By Tony Cartalucci, October 11 2015
Next to secret warfare, new militarism has involved a selected range of major and overt “quickie” interventions…