Pensions and health care plans for US troops will be drastically reduced under a new budget presented by US President Barack Obama on Thursday. Not all aspects of the DoD will be annihilated, however. [anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/usa/news/obama-panetta-pentagon-strategy-251/i3b17fe3528ba39e0960d6e4ddb057b14_gayane-grab-0100.flv]…
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Editor’s note: Amitai Etzioni is a sociologist and professor of international relations at George Washington University and the author of several books, including “The Limits of Privacy.” He was a senior adviser to the Carter…
Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary, came to Beijing on Tuesday hoping to persuade Chinese leaders to toughen their stance toward Iran and to soften their opposition to a stronger renminbi, a move that could…
Pyongyang, January 11 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA on Wednesday as regard the U.S. offer of food aid: Recently…
Arnold Toynbee (A Study of History) clarified the European paradoxes of history that when political, moral and intellectual values come close to stagnation, “warriors become dreamers” to overrun the world. European colonization of the racially…
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto….
The NSA performs clandestine surveillance of Russia’s electronic communications through Echelon elements stationed in Norway, Cyprus, Kyrgyzstan and the Baltic states. The US Cyber Command, aka CYBERCOM, plans to employ cyber warfare for purposes of…
Spiralling US Defense Spending: US defense review firmly fixes strategic focus on Asia-Pacific and China’s perceived threat to its power projection abilities -The US’ defense spending has skyrocketed to a record high over the past decade….
Last September, marking the 9/11 tenth anniversary, the ACLU published a report titled, A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11.” Who then could have imagined America engaged in: out-of-control imperial lawlessness;…
The death toll from World War III will be incalculable… Article 2 (3) of the United Nations Charter requires the pacific settlement of the international dispute between the United States and Iran. To…