Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Dr. Strangelove is No Longer Satire

by Dee Knight, published on CovertAction Magazine, March 1, 2023 Expansion of U.S. weapons supplies to Ukraine makes nuclear war more conceivable “We are fighting a war against Russia,” German Foreign Minister Putin at Stalingrad Memorial on 80th anniversary. [Source: pbs.org] told the Council of Europe on January 24. The next day German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe[…]

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U.S. Hegemony and It’s Perils

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China spells out what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy. While administrations may change, the imperative to dominate doesn’t. U.S. desperate decisions create great dangers around the world. US Hegemony and Its Perils February 2023 Contents Introduction I. Political Hegemony—Throwing Its Weight Around II. Military Hegemony—Wanton Use of Force III. Economic Hegemony—Looting[…]

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The Demise of Davos

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, January 24, 2023 The World Economic Forum held its 53rd Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 16-20. This gathering of the world’s superrich oligarchs was followed by a Jan. 20 meeting of the NATO protectors and enforcers at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. The NATO meeting ended without the gathered officials even agreeing[…]

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Top Marine General In Japan Bluntly Describes US Is “Setting The Theatre” For Future War With China

by Tyler Durden, published on Zero Hedge, January 10, 2023 U.S. facilitating militarization of Japan.  Reckless talk by high level U.S. General.  What choice do they leave the Chinese?  [jb] The top Marine Corps General for Japan this week issued some very revealing statements in an interview focused on countering China in the Financial Times. Despite Chinese leadership insisting that[…]

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Daniel Ortega: “What We Are Faced With Is a Gang of Assassins”

by Daniel Ortega, published by Chicago Alba Solidarity, November 18, 2022 It’s great when the global south has a well informed, articulate and passionate spokesperson.  We need to listen to them in their own words on occasion.  Of course looking in this dark mirror can  be diquieting, but it is necessary all the same.  [jb] I want to conclude by[…]

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Washington’s New Iron Curtain in Europe

by Diana Johnstone, published on Peace and Planet News, Fall 2022        (originally published, June 2014) This is interesting.   Notice that everything that is happening now was foreseen at it’s inception.   There was actually a meeting where the gauntlet was thrown down.  [jb] NATO leaders are currently acting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron[…]

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The Burden Western Liberals Impose Only on Palestinians

by Joseph Massad, published on Electronic Intifada, November 9, 2022 Since the beginning of Zionist Jewish colonization of their country in the 1880s, Palestinians have faced demands that they carry a double burden: to fight off the Jewish racist colonists while having to defend their colonizers against anti-Jewish European Christian racism. No other colonized people has been forced to carry[…]

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The Other Side of the Berlin Wall

by William Blum, published on Consortium News, November 9, 2022          Original publication date July 28, 2011 Why was the Berlin Wall built?  The Berlin Wall became the iconic symbol of the Cold War, supposedly proving the superiority of capitalism over communism. However, there is another, little understood side to the story regarding why the wall was erected a half century[…]

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No to Foreign Military Intervention in Haiti! Yes to Haitian Self Determination!

by the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, published on Black Agenda Report, October 19, 2022 The vote in the UN Security Council did not take place.  It appears that behind the scenes, Russia and China made it clear they would not support these measures.  I published the Black Alliance for Peace Response to this a little further down if[…]

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