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Nato – what is it good for?
For the Atlanticist lobby and its enthusiasts, the cold war never really ended… NICK WRIGHT reports
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FOLLOW the Twitter feeds and various online channels of the Nato lobby, the Western Alliance enthusiasts and you enter an alternative universe in which the cold war never ended.
For these people — and the powerful forces whose megaphones they are — it never did end.
The death last week of George Shultz reminds us that only the flimsiest of permeable barriers separates out monopoly power, big business and government in the leading capitalist countries.
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