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Victory in Afghanistan
August 2011
Ross Eventon

Debate over the 10-year-plus war in Afghanistan tends to focus on how and when it "can be won," obscuring the fundamental question of whether it was morally acceptable in the first place. Now as the US gets closer to consolidating its imperial presence in the region for decades to come, the...

The Emerging Geo-Strategic Landscape in Central Asia
June 2011
Ross Eventon

Recent developments in Afghanistan suggest the New Great Game is intensifying in Central Asia.

The EU Security-industrial Complex
September 2010
Ben Hayes

The EU approach to security is starting to eclipse the rule of law, with very little consideration of human rights.

The Wikileaks Afghan War Diary: More Evidence of a Failed Mission
August 2010
Phyllis Bennis

The leaks just fill in details of what we already knew: that the Afghan War is too costly to continue.

Democracy at Work: Croatia's accession to NATO
April 2009
TNI
 Viktor Ivancic
Croatia's accession to NATO is an example of local elites' subservience to global powers at the expense of their own citizens.

Q: Why didn’t the government of Croatia organise a referendum on the country's accession to NATO?
A: So that the nation wouldn’t commit...

US imperial strategy backfires in Georgia (audio)
August 2008
Boris Kagarlitsky
US failure to back its client state Georgia in the conflict over South Ossetia showed the limits of its power and has boosted the popularity of the Russian government at home, says Boris Kagarlitsky

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The NATO axiom: 2 + 2 = 5
May 2008
Saul Landau

One of many relevant questions the ABC moderators neglected to ask Hillary and Obama in the mid April televised debate: Why does NATO continue to exist after the Soviet Union collapsed? Indeed, the entire media accepts NATO as one of the several military axioms that remain from Cold War days....

Tres actos y un desenlace
April 2008
TNI
 Pere Vilanova
Las incoherencias procedentes de la cumbre de OTAN muestran la necesitad de que el uso de la fuerza en la escena internacional respete los principios de legalidad y de legitimidad.

Vista en perspectiva, la reciente cumbre de la OTAN ha seguido un guión relativamente previsible y, como...

Green With NATO Envy
April 2008
Boris Kagarlitsky
In the face of NATO expansion, Moscow should seek allies in the West, including those from the anti-war movement and be prepared to do its own self-critiques.

"How interesting!"

These were the words of an airport security officer as he lifted a folder from my suitcase printed...

Italian soap-opera
February 2007
TNI
 Tariq Ali
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