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    Wednesday, February 3, 2010

    Afghanistan and NATO: Figleaf summit

    by Publisher2 February 3, 2010 Commentary
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    By Eric Walberg
    (The Intelligence Daily) — The plan voiced at the London Afghanistan conference to pay off the Taliban is belied by the plan at the Brussels NATO conference two days earlier to bomb them into submission, notes Eric Walberg
     
    London has been the venue of a three-ring Middle East circus over the past month. There [...]

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    Obama’s Base Pact With Colombia Accelerates “Dangerous Trend” in Latin America

    by Publisher2 February 3, 2010 Analysis

    By Sherwood Ross
    (The Intelligence Daily) — The Obama administration’s pact to use seven Colombian military bases accelerates “a dangerous trend in U.S. hemispheric policy,” an article in The Nation magazine warns.
    The White House claims the deal merely formalizes existing military cooperation but the Pentagon’s 2009 budget request said it needed funds to improve one of [...]

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    Ten Geopolitical & Economic Predictions for 2010

    by Publisher2 February 3, 2010 Analysis

    By Gregory R. Copley
    (The Intelligence Daily) — A great – and still growing – divergence appeared in 2009 between public statements by leaders and their public performance. The politicized, romanticized theater of increasingly populist “democratic” leaders and media seemed to be of a different planet from activities taking place in the real world.
    While a large [...]

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    Time to Set Okinawa Free

    by Publisher2 February 3, 2010 Commentary

    By Sherwood Ross
    (The Intelligence Daily) — It’s way past time for the U.S. to get out of Okinawa—and, for that matter, to take its Tokyo good buddies with it. Before Japanese warlords annexed the Ryuku islands in 1879, Okinawans enjoyed more freedom than they do today. Every liberty-loving American ought to be shouting: “Okinawa for [...]

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