Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program; The Former Soviet Union As America’s New Frontier
Selected articles
Since Hillary Clinton announced without any surprise that she was running for president, it is worth taking a look at her record. As U.S. Secretary of State during the conflict between Russia and Georgia, Clinton claimed that the U.S. was committed to “Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” and that the “United States does not recognize spheres of influence.”
In the meantime she was pushing for the military integration of countries from the former Soviet Union with NATO. Rick Rozoff commented at the time: “Despite Clinton’s claim to the contrary, the United States most decidedly recognizes spheres of influence. In its own hemisphere – the entirety of it – in the South Caucasus and everywhere else on the planet.”
Also in the double standard category, Washington is applying sanctions on Iran for its non existent nuclear weapons, even though the Pentagon has “officially” recognized that Israel is a nuclear power. More on these topics and other important issues below.
Washington Pushes the Reset Button with Moscow: Obama Administration Renews U.S. Claims On Former Soviet Space, Rick Rozoff, April 15, 2015
Originally published in July 2010 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton completed a four-day, five-nation tour of Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus by holding a press conference with Georgia’s volatile president Mikheil Saakashvili and delivering what in effect was…
Pentagon Recognizes “Officially” that Israel is a Nuclear Power. Declassified Document, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 15, 2015
The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), an entity on contract to the US Department of Defense has released a previously classified military document which confirms Israel’s nuclear weapons program. This is considered to be a landmark decision, widely interpreted as…
Recolonization of Africa: US Military Missions Reach Record Levels After Pentagon Inks Deal to Remain in Africa for Decades, Nick Turse, April 15, 2015
For three days, wearing a kaleidoscope of camouflage patterns, they huddled together on a military base in Florida. They came from U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and U.S. Army Special Operations Command, from France and Norway, from Denmark, Germany, and…
Geopolitical Ramifications of US-Saudi Armed Interventionism in Yemen, Prof. Henry Francis B. Espiritu, April 15, 2015
The Houthi rebellion in Yemen that was already in existence more than five years ago had recently turned into a full-blown conflict that escalated into an international crisis in the first week of April of 2015 when Houthi rebels in…
Saudi Arabia’s Other War. At War Against Its Own People, Eric Draitser, April 15, 2015
The Saudi war on Yemen has understandably come to dominate the headlines since it began in late March 2015. The international scope of the conflict – nominally including the participation of nearly a dozen Gulf countries – coupled with the…
Advection: The Forgotten Weather Factor. Failures of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Tim Ball, April 15, 2015
The early Greeks had a better, more basic understanding of weather and climate than the people involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Indeed, the word climate derives from the Greek word klima, meaning inclination, referring to the…
“Anti-Islam” versus “Islamophobia”. “Conspiracy” Behind the Word, Triggering Fear and Danger in the Unconscious Mind, Farah Ghasemi, April 15, 2015
I am writing to explain about a conspiracy behind applying the word of Islamophobia instead of using Anti-Islam for any emplacements and stands against Muslims in the world. The impact of concepts of a word in the mind of individual…
Changing the Way Money Works: The Steady State Economy and Sharing Law, Michael Welch and Kéllia Ramares, April 14, 2015
”It also just reduces barriers to a wide variety of things that we think create more sustainable local economies, like solar energy projects, community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs, worker-owned cooperatives. And so, if this law is passed in California, it means…