Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
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Once again Putin the chessmaster, makes a decisive move. While the U.S. planned a war for Russia, and then massively promoted it, he didn’t take the bait. It was expected that he would invade Donbas to protect Russian civilians, but instead, he has endorsed temporarily moving them into Russia for safekeeping. And then, if the Ukrainians want to fight for[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka, published on Towards Freedom, February 14, 2022 We have serious concerns that the accelerated drive to militarization and war by the United States and its allies dramatically unfolding with the crisis in Ukraine might very easily escalate to the point that it could threaten global humanity. In their mad drive to advance their geostrategic interests to the[…]
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by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, February 12, 2022 The two takeaways out of the French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Moscow and his six-hour long talks with President Vladimir Putin have been the assurance held out by the latter that Russian forces would not ramp up the crisis near Ukraine’s borders — “there would be no deterioration[…]
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by Paul Antinopoulos, published on InfoBRICS, February 11, 2022 Normally I might not publish something like this but I think we all should consider just how incompetent our leaders and their ‘diplomats’ really are. [jb] President Joe Biden called for American citizens in Ukraine to leave the country as soon as possible after revealing the potential for a “world war”[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, February 7, 2022 While the Biden administration is sending more troops and weapons to inflame the Ukraine conflict and Congress is pouring more fuel on the fire, the American people are on a totally different track. A December 2021 poll found that a plurality of Americans in both political parties prefer to[…]
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by Phil Wilayto, published in the Virginia Defender, February 3, 2021 In the winter of 2022, the news is dominated by growing tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Reports that Russia has amassed some 100,000 troops on its border with neighboring Ukraine have brought charges from the United States and NATO that Russia is planning to invade its neighbor, with whom[…]
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by Joe Lauria, published on Consortium News, February 4, 2022 United States plans to weaken Russia by imposing punishing sanctions and bringing world condemnation on Moscow depend on Washington’s hysteria about a Russian invasion of Ukraine actually coming true. At his press conference on Tuesday, Vladimir Putin said, “I still believe the United States is not that concerned about Ukraine’s[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, February 2, 2022 African people are already battling against U.S. rightist forces – from the Trump/Republican supporters to the warmongering neoliberal democrats. It would be an affront to our history and people to enter this struggle on the side of empire and NATO. Within large sectors of the U.S. left, including many[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 26, 2022 The 2014 U.S. sponsored coup against the elected government of Ukraine must be the starting point for any discussion of the current crisis. That crisis has been manufactured by Joe Biden, who was the Obama administration point person in using Ukraine as a means of destabilizing Russia. The corporate[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, January 31, 2022 So what are Americans to believe about the rising tensions over Ukraine? The United States and Russia both claim their escalations are defensive, responding to threats and escalations by the other side, but the resulting spiral of escalation can only make war more likely. Ukrainian President Zelensky is warning[…]
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