Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

5 Reasons Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine

by Krishen Mehta, produced by Globetrotter, February 24, 2023 Krishen Mehta is a member of the Board of the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord (ACURA), and a Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University. This article is distributed by Globetrotter in partnership with ACURA. In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK[…]

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Biden’s War Drive Fuels Resistance

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, February 28, 2023 Join us in DC, March 18! In the week of the first anniversary of the U.S./NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, the Biden administration has taken or announced steps to prolong that war and risk its escalation. The corporate media has parroted and amplified every government announcement. And the[…]

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Can Europe Survive This Moment?

by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, published by Globetrotter, February 9, 2023 A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused by warfare during the last 100 years (not to go back any further and include the deaths suffered by Europe during religious wars and the deaths inflicted[…]

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How America Took Out the Nordstream Pipeline

by Seymour Hersh, published on his Substack, February 8, 2023 The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now. The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City,[…]

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The Plan to Carve Up Russia

by Mike Whitney, published on The Unz Review,  January 5, 2023 Warning: The illustrations in this article are quite fantastic.   The header image is real, an expression I suppose, of Obsessive Compulsive disorder.   The U.S. expenditure on the military, Paranoia.  The modified map of Russia below, pure psychosis.  In fact the only one that makes any sense is the map[…]

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Ukraine War Tolls Death Knell for NATO

by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on The People’s Dispatch, December 26, 2022 Ho Ho Ho and A Merry Christmas to You Too  [jb] The defining moment in US President Joe Biden’s press conference at the White House last Wednesday, December 21, during President Zelensky’s visit, was his virtual admission that he is constrained in the proxy war in Ukraine, as European[…]

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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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European Workers Fight for Wages and Rights

From Avante, Published on Workers World, November 24, 2022 I spent considerable effort looking for a larger photo of any of these events, and what I found was from earlier this fall.  There is, of course, no censorship here, BUT, when I ran a search on “strike/protest, France/Brussels/Spain, November 2022”  I got photos from 2014 and 2018; photos from Hong[…]

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NATO Steadfast Noon Exercise And Nuclear Modernization in Europe

by Hans Christensen, published The Federation of American Scientists, October 17, 2022 Apparently they are preparing Europe to participate in a future nuclear war.   It is bizarre that these countries would set themselves up as targets in this way.  But, these innovations will actually give them control over the use of these nuclear bombs.  If you have read Dan Ellsberg’s[…]

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Scholz’s China Trip Raises Hackles

by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, November 5, 2022 German diplomacy presented a riveting sight of “counterpoint” with Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock hosting her G7 partners in Münster on November 3-4 even as Chancellor Olaf Sholz was emplaning from Berlin on a one-day visit to Beijing. The photo-op showed the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken flanking Baerbock[…]

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