NATO, the main overseas arm of the U.S. military-industrial complex, just keeps expanding. Its original raison d’être, the supposedly menacing Soviet bloc, has been dead for twenty years. But like the military-industrial complex itself, NATO is kept alive and growing by entrenched economic interests, institutional inertia and an official mindset resembling paranoia, with think tanks…
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War in the Caucasus: Toward a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation?
BY MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY Global Research, August 10, 2008 ALTERNATIVE READER Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 During the night of August 7, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Georgia’s president Saakashvili ordered an all-out military attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. The aerial bombardments and ground…