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Taiwan and the Making of an Asian NATO

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, July 6, 2022 These are amended remarks given by the author at an event held by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute titled “NATO and Global Empire.” The event can be watched in full here . This year’s NATO Summit took place amid a geopolitical seismic wave crashing upon Eurasia: Russia’s special military[…]

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We Are Witnessing the Weakening of the U.S. Empire Interview with Luis Acuña

While in Venezuela as an international observer during the regional elections in November 2021, Fire This Time Editorial Board member Alison Bodine had the opportunity to interview Professor Luis Acuña, the Charge d’Affaires of the Venezuela Embassy in Canada. Professor Acuña is the former Minister of Higher Education in Venezuela under President Comandante Hugo Chavez. From 2012-2017 Luis Acuña was[…]

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A Nuclear State of Denial

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Consortium News, June 24, 2022 A John Mearsheimer video clip from 2016 is going viral on Twitter right now, as old John Mearsheimer clips tend to do in the year 2022 when his predictions that Western actions would lead to the destruction of Ukraine are coming horrifyingly true. In response to a question about what the worst U.S. foreign policy[…]

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The United States Contests the Chinese Belt and Road with a Private Corporation

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, July 1, 2022 At the G7 Summit in Germany, on June 26, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden made a pledge to raise $200 billion within the United States for global infrastructure spending. It was made clear that this new G7 project—the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII)—was intended to counter the Chinese Belt[…]

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The Fantasy of Fanaticism

by Scott Ritter, published on Consortium News, June 25, 2022 The overwhelming hypocrisy of NATO laid bare.  [jb] For a moment in time, it looked as if reality had managed to finally carve its way through the dense fog of propaganda-driven misinformation that had dominated Western media coverage of Russia’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine. In a stunning admission, Oleksandr[…]

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NATO and Africa: A Relationship of Colonial Violence and Structural White Supremacy

by Djibo Sobukwe, published on Black Agenda Report,  February 27, 2022 Considering the public media attention and concern about possible expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it is worth reminding people about NATO’s bloody history in Africa. NATO was founded in 1949 after WWII at a time when African countries were still under the yoke of colonialism. In[…]

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Summit of the Americas Flops While Workers Summit Exposes Cracks in the Imperial Façade

by Roger Harris, published on Popular Resistance, June 16, 2022 Valentín, the man next to us in line as we made our way across the international border, asked what we had been doing in Tijuana. We had been at the Workers Summit of the Americas, organized as an alternative to Biden’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Our summit was[…]

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Interview with Afghan Human Rights Activist

by Black Alliance for Peace, published June 30, 2022 The views expressed below do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Black Alliance for Peace (or UNAC). Black Alliance for Peace: Based on your experiences, how would you describe the current situation on the ground in Afghanistan? For instance, how does the refusal by the United States and European allies[…]

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