In the ever-evolving landscape of international relations, military alliances continue to play a pivotal role in shaping global politics. From ancient Greece to the modern era, these strategic partnerships have been instrumental in maintaining peace, deterring aggression, and sometimes, unfortunately, in waging wars.
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The Other Side of the Berlin Wall
On the 33rd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, we look back on why the wall was built in this essay by the late William Blum, published on July 28, 2011 on Consortium News.
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Fifty Years Since the End of Bretton Woods
On August 15th, 1971, the then-president of the United States, Richard Nixon, made an eighteen-minute speech to the country whose effects impacted the world. Among other subjects, he announced the end of the dollar-gold parity, which was a shock.
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Why the U.S. is Finally Talking to Russia
The White House clowns are panicking, they can’t get their acts together. One clown or two, hand delivered pretentious conciliatory moves to the Kremlin while the other tentacles prepare for war here in SE Asia.
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German Top Military Brass Condemn U.S. / NATO WarMongering
The German military were on the wrong side of history as far as the last World War is concerned, but it never deters them from expressing their collective abhorrence to Cabalist attempts to start another.
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The Military Industrial Complex On Fear Mongering Hyperdrive
Maybe some of you may have noticed it already. There seems to be a concerted effort to create an atmosphere of fear similar to that of the Cold War era, but with a far more sophisticated script yet still following the same dialectic formula that we should already be aware of.
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Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against NATO – Russian General
Although Putin may prefer a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine/NATO problem, his allies are not.
We are officially back to the Cold War era.
The only difference is: we have full control of what information we would like to believe.
Russian General Demands Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against NATO
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2014 15:07 -0400
While NATO is contemplating its existential purpose in a world where the Cold War has suddenly come back with a vengeance, and the military alliance has found itself woefully unprepared to deal with a Russia which no longer accepts the supremacy of the west (appropriately enough NATO is doing this on a golf course) Russia is also strategizing, only instead of issuing “sharply-worded catchphrases” and hashtags, a Russian general has called for Russia to revamp its military doctrine, last updated in 2010, to clearly identify the U.S. and its NATO allies as Moscow’s enemy number one.
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Full Spectrum Dominance
This is said to be Pentagon’s strategy for world dominance.
Considering the existence of WhiteHats within the Pentagon and other agencies, we will read this article as “The Cabal’s Strategy for World Domination.”
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