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StopNATO is a source cited by scores of newspapers and websites as well as renown authors such as Edward Herman, co-author with Noam Chomsky of 'Manufacturing Consent,'and William Blum author of 'Killing Hope' and 'Rogue State.' StopNato is a crucial source of raw intelligence and in depth analysis of NATO war planning and its terrible consequences for social movements for peace.

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Below are recent references to StopNATO as well as an excerpt from a recent article by Rick Rozoff, StopNATO moderator and lead analyst.
Peace,
James

From Edward Herman http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21992 NATO, under strong U.S. influence, [is] still expanding despite the fall of the Soviet Union, stimulating an arms race, and continuing to encircle and threaten Russia (to follow the NATO expansion process, see Rick Rozoff’s valuable Stop Nato web site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/messages).

From William Blum http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer72.html No one chronicles the rise of the supra-government called NATO like Rick Rozoff in his "Stop NATO" mailings. NATO has become an ever-expanding behemoth, making war and interfering in political controversies all over Europe and beyond. The United States is not the world's only superpower; NATO is another, as it surrounds Russia and the Caspian Sea oil reserves; although the distinction between the two superpowers is little more than a facade....Readers might consider signing up for the "Stop NATO" mailing list. Just write to: rwrozoff [at] yahoo.com. Rozoff scours the East European press each day and comes up with numerous gems ignored by the mainstream media. But a warning: The amount of material you'll receive is often considerable. You'll have to learn to pick and choose. You can get an idea of this by reading previous reports at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/messages.

Afghan War: NATO Builds History's First Global Army
Rick Rozoff
August 9, 2009
[Last paragraphs]
The war in Afghanistan and on the other side of the border in Pakistan has reached its highest pitch of intensity to date with Afghan civilian deaths over 1,000 this year and the U.S. and NATO experiencing their highest death tolls in almost eight years of warfare. Britain has announced that it is sending 2,000 more troops and additional Predator drones, Chinook and Merlin helicopters and armored vehicles. Italy, France, Germany, Romania, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, new NATO members Albania and Croatia and Contact Country partners Australia and New Zealand have deployed and have been pressured to provide more troops, including special forces units, warplanes, attack helicopters and armored vehicles for the war. A war that expanded into a 50-nation military campaign and that has fanned out to include U.S. and NATO military incursions into South and Central Asia and the Caspian Sea region. A war that serves as a furnace to forge an integrated, battle-hardened international military force that can be employed wherever else in the world Brussels and Washington choose to use it in the future. The Afghan war, then, is no ordinary war, as abhorrent as all wars are. It is only going to expand in width and in the amount of blood shed, but already it is distinguished by several developments: It is the U.S.'s first war in Asia and its longest one anywhere since Vietnam. It is NATO's first ground war and its first military campaign in Asia. The German army has engaged in its first combat operations since the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945. Finnish soldiers have engaged in combat for the first time since World War II and Swedish forces in almost 200 years. Canada has lost its first troops in combat, 127, since the Korean War. Australia has registered its first combat deaths since the Vietnam War. More British soldiers have been killed, 196, than at any time since the Falklands/Malvinas war in 1982. A nation that borders Pakistan, Iran, China and two Central Asian nations has been thrown into turmoil. The world's seven official nuclear nations are either in the neighborhood - China, Pakistan, India and Russia - or are engaged in hostilities - the U.S., Britain and France. The only beneficiary of this conflagration is a rapidly emerging Global NATO.