Obama Raises the Military Stakes: Confrontation on the Borders with China and Russia By Professor James Petras, Global Research, December 10, 2011 After suffering major military and political defeats in bloody ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, failing to buttress…
Tag: Russia
The Russians did better … so why did they lose?
US Now in Afghanistan Longer Than Soviets By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Dec. 8, 2010 US forces have now stayed longer in Afghanistan than the Soviet army during Moscow’s ill-fated intervention. The US military late last month exceeded the nine years…
Georgia versus Russia
Fanning the Flames of Another War in the Caucasus? By Eric Walberg, Counterpunch, March 5-6, 2010 With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world expected a new era of peace and disarmament. But what happened? Instead of diminishing, US…
Setting the stage for World War
U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, March 4, 2010 So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction…
War in the Caucasus
Ossetian women and children escaping from South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali under the heavy fire of Georgian army War in the Caucasus: Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation? by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, March 10, 2008 During the night of August…