Articles by Rick Rozoff
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Creating Enemies: China Reacts to NATO Targeting It
Rick Rozoff | Anti-Bellum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – After months of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg mercilessly – tediously – denouncing Russia and China ahead of yesterday’s summit, the communiqué issued after it finally raised China’s ire. It was the first time the 30-nation military bloc so overtly directed harsh language of that nature at China in an official publication.
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NATO Enters New Warfighting Domain in Space
Rick Rozoff | Anti-Bellum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
10 May 2021 – NATO officially declared space its newest operational domain, adding to its other four battlefields: air, land, sea and cyberspace. The thirty-nation military bloc is currently setting up a NATO Space Centre in Germany.
→ read full articleRisk-Free and Above the Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare
Rick Rozoff – Global Research,
11 Jul 2011
Neither cruise missiles nor Hellfire missile-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles have pilots on board, so the lives of U.S. service members are safe as Pakistanis, Afghans, Libyans, Iraqis, Yemenis and Somalis are torn to shreds by U.S. strikes. Wars of aggression are now both safe and “legal.”
→ read full articleWar on Libya and Control of the Mediterranean
Rick Rozoff – Stop NATO,
4 Apr 2011
Libya is also one of only five of Africa’s 54 countries that have not been integrated into, which is to say subordinated to, the new U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).
→ read full articleAfrica: Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Military Partners
Rick Rozoff – Global Research,
7 Mar 2011
A recent article in Kenya’s Africa Review cited sources in the African Union (AU) disclosing that the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization is preparing to sign a military partnership treaty with the 53-nation AU.
→ read full articleGlobal Military Agenda: Increased US-NATO Military Presence in Southeast Asia. Completing Plans for Asian NATO
Rick Rozoff – Global Research,
1 Nov 2010
In keeping with the global trend manifested in other strategically vital areas of the world, the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – a consortium of all major Western military (including nuclear) powers and former colonial empires – are increasing their military presence in Southeast Asia with special emphasis on the geopolitically critical Strait of Malacca. The latter is one of the world’s most important shipping lanes and major strategic chokepoints.
→ read full articleNew Colonialism: Pentagon Carves Africa into Military Zones
Rick Rozoff – Pambazuka News,
24 May 2010
Under its AFRICOM (African Command) initiative, the US Army is becoming ever more deeply involved in African military affairs across the continent, encroaching on the military autonomy of an increasing number of African nations, writes Rick Rozoff. Pulling African countries’ militaries into its network is not based on altruism, Rozoff contends, but simply reflects the concerns of every military power: ‘The threat and use of armed violence to gain economic and geopolitical advantages.’
→ read full articleU.S. and NATO Accelerate Military Build-Up in Black Sea Region
Rick Rozoff – Global Research,
24 May 2010
In the post-Cold War era and especially since 2001 the Pentagon has been steadily shifting emphasis, and moving troops and equipment, from bases in Germany and Italy to Eastern Europe in its drive to the east and the south.
→ read full articleBASES, MISSILES, WARS: U.S. CONSOLIDATES GLOBAL MILITARY NETWORK
Rick Rozoff – Global Research,
31 Jan 2010
Afghanistan is occupying center stage at the moment, but in the wings are complementary maneuvers to expand a string of new military bases and missile shield facilities throughout Eurasia and the Middle East. The advanced Patriot theater anti-ballistic missile batteries in place or soon to be in Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, the […]
→ read full articleNATO’S SECRET TRANSATLANTIC BOND: NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN EUROPE
Rick Rozoff – Global Research,
7 Dec 2009
"Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dutch, Belgian, Italian and German pilots remain ready to engage in nuclear war." "Nuclear forces based in Europe and committed to NATO provide an essential political and military link between the European and the North American members of the Alliance. The Alliance will therefore maintain adequate […]
→ read full articleGEOPOLITICAL CROSSROADS: PENTAGON AND NATO COMPLETE THEIR CONQUEST OF THE BALKANS
Rick Rozoff – Global Research,
4 Dec 2009
Bosnia and Montenegro being incorporated as full NATO members and Macedonia following suit would expand the world’s only military bloc to 31 nations, almost twice that of ten years ago when it first began its drive into Eastern Europe. And with Serbia and Kosovo, which even before becoming a member is the world’s first NATO […]
→ read full articleFORMER SOVIET STATES: BATTLEGROUND FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION
Rick Rozoff – Global Research,
25 Nov 2009
A Europe united under the EU and especially NATO is to be strong enough to contain, isolate and increasingly confront Russia as the central component of U.S. plans for control of Eurasia and the world, but cannot be allowed to conduct an independent foreign policy, particularly in regard to Russia and the Middle East. European […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL WARFARE USA: THE WORLD IS THE PENTAGON’S OYSTER
Rick Rozoff – Global Research,
18 Nov 2009
US Military Operations in all Major Regions of the World"Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze) and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups and […]
→ read full articleAFRICOM AND AMERICA’S GLOBAL MILITARY AGENDA: TAKING THE HELM OF THE ENTIRE WORLD
Rick Rozoff,
28 Oct 2009
“The developments come as the White House seeks grounds to establish a major military presence in Africa…[A]nalysts caution that similar pretexts were used to justify the US invasion of Afghanistan, the missile attacks in Pakistan, and its waning military operations in Iraq, where the civilian population continues to bear the brunt of the US intervention.” […]
→ read full articleGREATER ALBANIA: THREAT OF A NEW US-NATO SPONSORED CONFLICT IN EUROPE
Rick Rozoff,
10 Oct 2009
Europe may be perched above the precipice of its first armed conflict since NATO’s 78-day bombing war against Yugoslavia in 1999 and the resultant armed invasion of Macedonia from NATO-occupied Kosovo two years later. With the formal accession of Albania into full NATO membership this April and the subsequent reelection victory (at least formally) of the […]
→ read full articleTHINKING THE UNTHINKABLE: NATO’S GLOBAL MILITARY ROADMAP
Rick Rozoff,
5 Oct 2009
Not content with expanding from 16 to 28 members over the past decade in a post-Cold War world in which it confronts no military threat from any source, state or non-state, and not sufficiently occupied with its first ground and first Asian war in Afghanistan, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – the world’s only military […]
→ read full articleTHE PENETAGON’S 21ST CENTURY COUNTERINSURGENGY WARS: LATIN AMERICA AND SOUTH ASIA
Rick Rozoff,
2 Aug 2009
More than half a year after the departure of the George W. Bush administration the United States is embroiled in its largest combat operation since the second attack on Fallujah in November of 2004 and the most extensive and lengthy offensive in its nearly eight-year-old war in Afghanistan. It has also announced plans to intensify […]
→ read full articleUS ESCALATES WAR PLANS IN LATIN AMERICA
Rick Rozoff,
24 Jul 2009
US Military: After Iraq, Latin America On June 29 US President Barack Obama hosted his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe at the White House and weeks later it was announced that the Pentagon plans to deploy troops to five air and naval bases in Colombia, the largest recipient of American military assistance in Latin America and […]
→ read full articleMILITARIZATION OF THE ARCTIC. CANADA: BATTLE LINE IN EAST-WEST CONFLICT OVER THE ARCTIC
Rick Rozoff,
8 Jun 2009
Referring to newly released documents, though not revealing what they were, a major Canadian press wire service reported on May 26 that the government plans to acquire a "family" of aerial drones over the next decade.[1] The dispatch was only two paragraphs long and could easily be overlooked, as one of the two intended purposes […]
→ read full articleNATO OF THE SOUTH: CHILE, SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, ANTARCTICA
Rick Rozoff,
1 Jun 2009
On May 28, Carolina Toha, spokeswoman for Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, stated that "Chile has developed strategic ties with the United States since long ago" and expressed her government’s eagerness to expand them. [1] Employing the standard rationale of sharing "more similarity with the Obama administration" than with its predecessor, a pose adopted by world […]
→ read full articleWEST PLOTS TO SUPPLANT UNITED NATIONS WITH GLOBAL NATO
Rick Rozoff,
31 May 2009
Ten years ago it first became evident to the world that moves were afoot in major Western capitals to circumvent, subvert and ultimately supplant the United Nations, as the UN could not always be counted on to act in strict accordance with the dictates of the United States and its NATO allies. At that time […]
→ read full articleEURASIAN CROSSROADS: THE CAUCASUS IN US-NATO WAR PLANS
Rick Rozoff,
9 Apr 2009
The South Caucasus is rapidly becoming a critical strategic crossroads in 21st century geopolitics, encompassing the most ambitious energy transit projects in history and the consolidation of a military corridor reaching from Western Europe to East Asia, one whose command centers are in Washington and Brussels. The culmination of eighteen years of post-Cold War Western […]
→ read full articleBLACK SEA: PENTAGON’S GATEWAY TO THREE CONTINENTS AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Rick Rozoff,
22 Feb 2009
The Black Sea region connects Europe with Asia and the Eurasian land mass to the Middle East through Turkey on its southern rim, which borders Syria, Iraq and Iran. The northern Balkans lie on its western shores and the Caucasus on its eastern end, the latter a land bridge to the Caspian Sea and Central […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL ENERGY WAR: WASHINGTON’S NEW KISSINGER
Rick Rozoff,
4 Feb 2009
The appointment of US Marine General James Jones Lost amid the national and international fanfare accompanying the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States is attention to the person who is slated to be the next major foreign policy architect and executor, retired US Marine General James Jones. In nearly identical phraseology that […]
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