US Pacific Aus-sault: 'Military-economic alliance looms'

[The Northerner]

Run time: 04:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTPr6vCylAY   Posted on YouTube: November 18, 2011 By YouTube Member: RussiaToday Views on YouTube: 2759   Posted on DU: November 18, 2011 By DU Member: The Northerner Views on DU: 842

 
The United States is boosting its presence in the Asia-Pacific -- a fact underlined during President Obama's state visit to Australia. Two-and-a-half-thousand American troops will be stationed there over the next few years, in an apparent move to blunt China's growing influence in the region.

Alice Slater from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation explained the idea of the new Pacific era for the US.

[RC]

1. '...looms' or 'loons'?

We really need to do some research on the effects of working for peace, instead assuming there will be war.

[hourglass1]

2. TPP

america has become what it taught her children to fear and loathe in others, like communists and socialists and boogie men ... meanwhile your pentagon has a brand-new bunker bomb system (that will be deployed asap), your roads are crumbling and social security will be invested into the stock casino - to further enrich the casino owners that own your government and its military, lawmakers, judges and police ...

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R n/t