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Repurposed NATO isn’t just about Russia any longer: #EfficiencyMatters

Posted on June 15, 2021 by | Leave a comment

‘NATO summit threatens China, at US instigation’, Andre Damon, June 14, 2021 (w/ permission; my bolds)

(US tanks are unloaded in Antwerp, Belgium to take part in the Atlantic Resolve military exercises. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

“Members of the 30-nation NATO alliance concluded their summit Monday with a communique targeting China, declaring that it poses “systemic challenges” to the military alliance.

The wording of the document marked a significant new stage in the efforts of the United States to, in the words of US President Biden, “organize the world to take on China,” as part of a massive escalation of tensions by Washington against Beijing.

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Zombie NATO Is Obsolete; Militarists Try To Revive It Through Expanded Targets

Posted on December 8, 2019 by | 9 comments


Please consider this by way of a PSA.  The title is from this morning’s Popular Resistance newsletter and was written by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, December 8, 2019, after the 70th Nato Summit had wrapped up on Dec. 4.

As all their content is CC w/ attribution, I’ll paste it all in, although I haven’t taken the time to check all the internal links.  The ‘bitterly divided’ link is a barn-burner by Alex Lantier at wsws.org, imo.  I haven’t brought their photos, either; I’ve used images from NATO on Twitter instead.
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Alexis Tsipras Survives Confidence Vote by One Vote

Posted on January 21, 2019 by | 27 comments

(sub-titled either ‘Greeks bearing gifts to NATO, or ‘Everything you never wanted to learn about the Macedonian name change’ .)
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the ‘Great Competitor China’: in Africa

Posted on January 1, 2019 by | 24 comments

This is indeed a bit of a tome as I reckon it needs to be given the subject matter, but I’ll offer a shortcut in a bit.  I’d like to start with ‘The Bolton Speech on Africa: A Case of the Wolf and the Foxes’, Ajamu Baraka, Dec. 19, BAR.com, and will quote liberally for background, and since BAR content is all CC.  (click image for larger)


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‘NATO must prepare to counter a rapid Russia invasion in Europe’

Posted on December 19, 2018 by | 3 comments

From the militarytimes.com, Dec. 18, 2018:

“Russia is positioned to quickly defeat forward-deployed U.S. and NATO forces and grab land before reinforcements could arrive, according to a new paper from the Atlantic Council, an international affairs think tank.
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flip-city news from Ukraine & Crimea

Posted on November 25, 2018 by | 8 comments

This is the War and Peace of the ‘War, No Peace allowed’ in one of the Nato-repurposed  2.0  cold war proxy wars against Russia.  I know it’s long, but it’s all of a puzzle.  Given its length, were I a reader, I’d focus on the Ukraine/Russian warships story, as a hella lot’s gonna break tomorrow, including at the UN. So far Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov have refused to be drawn into responding to threats of war against The Bear, but what might be the flexion point?  Given that, I’ve chosen to give some background to what’s afoot already.  Yeppers, it’s all copy/paste, but transposing is even more impossible in my haste.
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have you ever even heard of Gladio B?

Posted on November 19, 2018 by | 16 comments

I’d only recently learned of it, and  quite accidentally.  Now most of us are familiar with Operation Gladio. This is the most concise version of Operation Gladio I was able to find, essentially: ‘part of a post-World War II program set up by the CIA and NATO [as well as MI-6] supposedly to thwart future Soviet/communist invasions or influence in Italy and Western Europe. In the absence of Soviet invasion, it seems to have been to discredit left-wing groups and politicians through the use of “the strategy of tension,” including false-flag terrorism. Think most recently: violent provocateurs Venezuela, same for Nicaragua, now Haiti again (with police snipers), where else in Our Backyard just in the past year or two?

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A Report from the DC Peace Congress

Posted on November 14, 2018 by | 20 comments

But first, I’d like to say a few words about war and militarism.

This nation was founded on the original sins of genocide and slavery.  In 1967 at Riverside Baptist Church Martin Luther King, Jr. later called the US the largest exporter of violence on the planet, and had called out Amerika for its triple evils of militarism, racism, and capitalism.
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#TridentJuncture: more NATO military aggression on Russia’s borders

Posted on October 26, 2018 by | 6 comments

You’ll find more quotes from Lombardo at this RT link to ‘Ice’s melting: Will Arctic become ‘a new battlefield for oil like the Middle East’?, plus the NATO Tweets demonstrating that the ‘Practice Drills’ are afoot, as is this one from Jens Stoltenberg with this message: “Good luck to all the men & women participating in #NATO exercise #TridentJuncture, starting in Norway today. We are sending a clear message that NATO stands ready to defend our nations & preserve the peace.”  (not provocative, it is?)
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a very unmerry 10th birthday to AFRICOM, spawn of NATO

Posted on October 6, 2018 by | 2 comments


October 1, 2018—The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has launched U.S. Out of Africa!: Shut Down AFRICOM, a campaign designed to end the U.S. invasion and occupation of Africa.

“Today marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of AFRICOM, short for U.S. Africa Command. Although U.S. leaders say AFRICOM is “fighting terrorism” on the continent, we believe geopolitical competition with China is the real reason behind AFRICOM’s existence. AFRICOM is a dangerous structure that has only increased militarism.
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these 2 Tweets define the amerikan empire

Posted on August 29, 2018 by | 12 comments

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NATO summit in brussels: day one (day two in comments)

Posted on July 11, 2018 by | 8 comments

Surreal, if totally expected, given his insane military history , Southern Command, and run for president as a D.

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Colombia formally joins NATO: wtf? & woe to VZ and Bolivia

Posted on June 4, 2018 by | 19 comments

…and any other leftist/socialist nations that might unwind the recent putsches in Brazil, Argentina, and Central America to install US-approved neoliberal leaders with the consummate aid of CIA fronts USAID, NED, and new to me: the DNI (Instituto Democratico Nacional).

My guess is that this diary will be largely copy/paste, as there’s too much info to reinterpret in my limited time, an longish to boot.  I’ll add that the wtf? answer will ring as clear as crystal goblet tapped with a tuning fork by the end.
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‘Mad Dog’ Mattis Issues First in a Decade National Defense Strategy

Posted on January 23, 2018 by | 11 comments


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a NATO Space Command plus ‘The Nuclearization of Space’

Posted on November 16, 2017 by | 19 comments

 


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Russophobia Gone ‘Round the Twist Meets unHoly Hypocrisy

Posted on November 10, 2017 by | 22 comments


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Nato Blues, the Empire’s Vast Array of Shoes & DiFi’s HUAC*

Posted on October 30, 2017 by | 16 comments

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Discussion Q: is the US under military control?

Posted on October 23, 2017 by | 46 comments


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The Empire that Mistook Itself as ‘Indispensable’

Posted on September 16, 2017 by | 20 comments


Emanuel Leutze ‘Westward the Course of Empire’ 

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Café Babylon’s September War and Peace Report

Posted on September 29, 2016 by | 24 comments

(Their first release, more to follow)
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