by Clifford McCoy from Asia Times Online.
Because items like this never make it into mainstream news coverage, few Americans have any idea of how the US "military-industrial complex", that former President Eisenhower warned us about, is running amok provoking military confrontations nearly everywhere in the world. And now they are also performing such exercises with the South Korean navy! The same thing has been going on with Columbia, and I can't remember how many other places I've read a little about!
Can you imagine how the same mainstream news corporations would cover news of joint military exercises in Mexico involving the armed forces of China?