Showing posts with label military politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military politics. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Showbiz Politics: The Myth of US-Philippine Defense Pact Promoting Regional Peace

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As I said yesterday, showbiz has practically consumed most of social affairs in the Philippines. More evidence of showbiz in the conte...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

India: The Rise of a Nuclear Power

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A brewing cold war has been developing which has not been in the radar screens of the mainstream. Writes historian Eric Margolis at lew...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Charts of the Day: World Military Spending and Arms Trade

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Two related charts of the day First world defense spending The Economist speculates that if the current rate of growth persists...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Chart of the Day: China’s Defense Spending

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From Reuters (chart included) China will raise military spending by 10.7% this year to 740.6 billion yuan ($119 billion). China’s ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

US Military Suicides at New Record High

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Apparently US foreign imperial policies have been coun tenanced with an internal blowback (which I earlier called this as the enemy from w...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Enemy from Within: Afghan Forces Turning Against Their U.S. Trainers

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Wars spawn their own monsters. Aside from growing numbers of suicides within the US Army , in the Afghan war, Afghan forces have reportedl...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

US Military Suicides: The Enemy from Within

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Fighting needless wars and playing the role of the global policeman to fulfill the political and financial goals of neocon politics and the ...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Chart Porn: The US-Asia Arm Race

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The conservative Heritage Foundation comes up with a deck of wonderful charts on Asia. Writes the Zero Hedge , Asia is a study in con...
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Saturday, June 09, 2012

America’s Asia Military Strategy: Encirclement via Air Power

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Naval presence, according to historian Eric Margolis, has not been the real issue of US military expansion in Asia, which has been aimed at ...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

From Scarborough Shoal to Senkaku Islands

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What’s all the ado over territorial claims these days? The tensions over Scarborough Shoal have yet to be concluded and now Japanese polit...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Lessons from the Joint Resignations of the Chiefs of Turkey’s Armed Forces

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Turkey’s highest ranking military officers has reportedly resigned en masse. According to the SFGate , The chiefs of staff of Turkey...