Towards the Consolidation of the Russian-led CSTO Military Alliance   By José Miguel Alonso Trabanco URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13525 Global Research, May 8, 2009 “We are not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a new Cold War, but we don’t want one” -Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev In his 1997 book entitled The Grand [...]

By Rick Rozoff URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13523 Global Research, May 6, 2009 Stop NATO On March 2, 2009 the Australian Department of Defence released a 140-page white paper called Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific century: force 2030 (1), which announced $72 billion in new military spending for an island nation of barely 20 [...]