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Peace Activist Sentenced for Criticizing German War Policy in Ukraine

by Justus Leicht, published on the World Socialist Web Site, January 31,  2023 My information is that  Heinrich Bücker has appealed his conviction and is waiting for the court to set a new date for his appeal hearing.  [jb] The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker in January for speaking out in public against Germany’s war policy in[…]

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Winds of New Cold War Howling in the Arctic Circle

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and published on Consortium News, January 17, 2023 In 1996, the eight countries on the Arctic rim — Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States — formed the Arctic Council, a journey that began in 1989 when Finland approached the other countries to hold a discussion about[…]

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What Can the United States Bring to the Peace Table for Ukraine?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just issued its 2023 Doomsday Clock statement, calling this “a time of unprecedented danger.” It has advanced the hands of the clock to 90 seconds to midnight, meaning that the world is closer to global catastrophe than ever before, mainly because the conflict in Ukraine[…]

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Unprovoked!

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Consortium News, January 8, 2023 In an interview with the Useful Idiots podcast not too long ago, Noam Chomsky repeated his argument that the only reason we hear the word “unprovoked” every time anyone mentions Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the mainstream news media is because it absolutely was provoked, and they know it. “Right now, if you’re[…]

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In 2022 the U.S. Led Unipolar Order is More Unstable Than Ever

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, January 4, 2023 This article was originally published in CGTN . Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin via video link on December 30, which drew alarm from certain Western media outlets. The New York Times, for example, concluded that the call came amid a “weak moment” for both leaders.[…]

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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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Japan Rearms Under Washington’s Pressure − a Wake-up Call to the Antiwar Movement

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 28, 2022 The Dec. 16 announcement by Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of a new defense strategy, while doubling military spending by 2027 to implement it, is the largest defense shake-up in decades and a wake-up call to the antiwar movement. The decision includes openly acquiring offensive weapons and reshaping its military[…]

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Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War with Russia

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action, December 19, 2022 War was inevitable outcome of 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview with Die Zeit, published on December 7, that “the 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give time to Ukraine. It…used this time to become stronger as can be seen today. The Ukraine[…]

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How Aligned Is the Atlantic Alliance?

by Ted Snider, published on Antiwar.com, December 7, 2022 The Ukraine war has caused some cracks in NATO.  Maybe we’ll get lucky and it will break.  [jb] The war in Ukraine is stretching the NATO alliance. The pull is still gentle and the cracks still small. But the potentially endless duration of the war, the economic suffering it has caused[…]

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