Rick Rozoff
Graduate in European literature. Investigative journalist ; Manager of the organization Stop NATO international.

This historical review of the relations between NATO and Ukraine puts de facto into clear perspective one’s analytical look at the events in Kiev: since 1991 and its accession to the Atlantic Cooperation Council, Ukraine has concretely moved inexorably closer to the Alliance, without ever taking into account public opinion.

In the face of the inexorable spiraling down of Western predominance in the world, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen responds by charging on rather than retreating, in a typical flight forward attitude. Seeing, but preferring to ignore, that the world’s center of gravity is rapidly shifting from the West to the East, the Atlantic Alliance chief continues to dream of an even stronger and more ubiquitous NATO presence, straddling the entire planet, as diagnosed by Rick Rozoff in this article.

To the world’s military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasure trove of resources and long-dreamed-of sea-lanes. Rick Rozoff scrutinizes the feverish military activity taking place in the High North, under the official label of a joint Norwegian-NATO-Partnership for Peace endeavor, including preparedness drills against terrorist threats, mass demonstrations...and spies coming in from the cold!

President Obama’s statement on defense strategy announced a stronger U.S. presence in Asia-Pacific, while keeping Africa under the radar. Yet, recent developments clearly suggest that the Black Continent has become the new U.S. military playground of imperial conquest. It is now Mali’s turn to have plunged into turmoil. In this article, written in February 2012 when the latest "Tuareg rebellion" erupted in northern Mali, Rick Rozoff connects the dots between these events and Mali’s pivotal role in Washington’s strategy for Africa, conjecturing that, after Libya, the stage is possibly being set for another U.S. led intervention.

Placed in power in 2003 by a US-backed regime change operation, Georgian President Saakashvili has enthusiastically pandered to Washington’s every whim ever since: From contributing a hefty troop contingent in Afghanistan, to opening up his country’s territory to accommodate US military designs in the region, essentially against Russia. This time, as Rick Rozoff details, Georgia’s soil will be used in a possible attack on Iran. In return, Saakashvili’s puppet masters have promised to secure him another electoral win.

"U.S not in a position to criticize Russian elections," said NATO expert Rick Rozoff in an interview with Voice of Russia journalist John Robles, reproduced below. Most importantly, he highlighted that while US State Secretary Hillary Clinton is concerned about Russian democracy, Washington’s plans for building a ring of missile "defence" systems around Russia have been going full steam ahead, whether that country "likes it or not."

Libya may be yet another country for NATO to take root in, suspects Rick Rozoff, who sees the repetition of an all-too-familiar modus operandi. First, NATO carpet bombs the whole country from top to bottom, then sets up military bases and finally doesn’t leave. In Kosovo, Camp Bondsteel is still going strong, and there are no signs that military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan will ever be left behind, despite persistent pledges of troop withdrawal.

Betrayed by NATO after Israel’s high seas attack on the Mavi Marmara just over one year ago, Turkey may be on its way to becoming a military launch pad for the Alliance’s operations against its erstwhile ally, Syria. Rick Rozoff fleshes out Turkey’s sinister role in the US-led counter revolutionary charge in the Middle East.
Gulf State Gendarmes: West Backs Holy Alliance For Control Of Arab World And Persian Gulf
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Rick Rozoff

While Barack Obama and David Cameron vow to support the "Arab Springs", their armies are bombarding Libya. But they needn’t have any qualms about it; most of the dirty work has been farmed out to the Gulf Cooperation Council, a new Holy Alliance of Arab monarchies which stands against democracy, revolution and secularism.
Video: Paul Craig Roberts interview
U.S. and NATO allies initiate Libyan scenario for Syriaby
Rick Rozoff

Replicating the blueprint for Libya, what is currently being played out in Syria according to Rick Rozoff is the fulfillment of the Bush administration’s six-year old project for "regime change". The specious pretexts have changed but not the U.S.’s determination to achieve its geopolitical goals in the region. Blocked in the Security Council this time, the West is bypassing the obstacle by resorting to “coalitional” expedients, the first of which is Obama’s recent executive order.

Had Muammar Gaddafi become too pesky for the likes of Nicolas Sarkozy and his Atlanticist partners, by standing in the way of their agenda for the domination of the Mediterranean sea region? France’s direct role in nurturing the rebellion against the Libyan leader is no longer a secret. In this article, Rick Rozoff offers some additional pointers, and analyzes the Libyan war in the context of the advancing transformation of the Mediterranean into NATO’s mare nostrum.

The talk of imposing a no-fly zone over Libya may sound like an incremental and moderate step. It is, in fact, alarmingly reminiscent of the path of action that culminated in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 and the 2003 attack on Iraq by the "coalition of the willing". In NATOland, solving problems by peaceful mediation rather than by force is not part of the culture. The military alliance is thus likely to be gearing up for yet another “humanitarian war”, this time against Libya.

Under the banner of NATO and pretending to gear up against an unspecified security threat against Africa, the United States has expanded its presence to every corner of the continent, virtually turning it into a military campground. The only threat facing, not Africa, but the United States is Chinese influence and competition for the same resources. However, it may not prove easy to beat China at a game she already excels at ... without needing to deploy any hardware.

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