By FISNIK ABRASHI - 37 minutes ago

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Pakistani troops fired at American reconnaissance helicopters patrolling the Afghan-Pakistan border Thursday, heightening tensions as U.S. steps up cross-border operations in a region known as a haven for Taliban and al-Qaida militants.

Two American OH-58 reconnaissance helicopters, known ( Read more... )

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ISLAMABAD, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Firing by Pakistani troops forced two U.S. military helicopters to turn ( Read more... )

September 12, 2008
A Question for the Candidates
Georgia in NATO?

By STEVE BREYMAN

Vice President Cheney’s recent reminder that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had agreed to admit Georgia ought to get our attention. The Vice President’s statement must be seen in light of five important and overlapping developments: (1) the “new containment” ( Read more... )

From The Times
September 5, 2008

Michael Evans, Defence Editor

Nato's early-warning surveillance system has been plugged into Georgia's air-defence network in the first evidence that the US-led alliance is shoring up the country's shattered military.

Alliance officials said that the arrangement enabled Nato radar specialists to be linked up to the ( Read more... )

ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE

Published: September 02, 2008

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- NATO guarantees that an attack against one member country is an attack against all are no longer what they used to be. Had Georgia been inside NATO, a number of European countries would no longer be willing to consider it an attack against their own soil.

For Russia, the ( Read more... )

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Nato and the EU get the message: Russia's Gazprom Suspends Gas Deliveries to Europe Due to Repairs

U.S. warship leaves Sevastopol after protests

15:05 | 02/ 09/ 2008

SEVASTOPOL, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dallas left Sevastopol Tuesday morning after anti-NATO protests in Ukraine's Crimean port. (U.S. Coastguard cutter ( Read more... )

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Monday, September 01, 2008

by Stephen Lendman

Prior to entering WW II, US strategists had a clear aim in mind at its conclusion - to hold unchallengeable power in a new post-war global system: military, economic and political in a "Grand Area" encompassing the West and Far East. Essentially most ( Read more... )

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

(This will appear in the next issue of Al-Ahram Weekly http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/

Republished here by permission of the author to whom I am deeply grateful. VS)

Was an independent Ossetia inevitable after Kosovo or is it an US election ruse gone wrong, asks Eric Walberg

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a gritty, ( Read more... )

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RIA NOVOSTI
Posted by morris108 on August 29, 2008
RIA NOVOSTI: NATO Black Sea fleet build up Coordinated in advance to coincide with ( Read more... )