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Russia Advises NATO to (Finally) Honor Its ‘Not One Inch Eastward’ Pledge
Russia Advises NATO to (Finally) Honor Its ‘Not One Inch Eastward’ Pledge Unlike in 1990, Russia has many options left to itself if NATO ignores its proposal for peace and continues to advance on the former Soviet space. As NATO continues its mission creep inexorably towards the Russian border, Moscow issued a security proposal to […]
Veterans target US military’s outsized impact on the climate crisis
Veterans target US military’s outsized impact on the climate crisis With no mention of military emissions at COP26, a coalition is mobilizing to force the Pentagon to disclose and reduce its enormous carbon footprint. More than 100,000 people protested the United Nations Climate Change Convention, or COP26, in Glasgow last month, where they networked, forged […]
Will America’s New Nuke Deter War, Or Bring It On?
Will America’s New Nuke Deter War, Or Bring It On? In a bit of irony, a Twitter comment by Jill Hruby Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) pointed to a new nuclear bomb as proof America is committed to nuclear deterrence. This is where it is important to remember that deterrence means, the action […]
Warmongers Would Let Ukraine Become World War III
Warmongers Would Let Ukraine Become World War III They just won’t let it go. It seems many of the so-called “warmongers” are hellbent on turning Ukraine into a major war whether the countries involved want it or not. History shows what has become known as “proxy wars” create profits for companies manufacturing weapons. The cost, […]
We’re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War
We’re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Every day there’s more propaganda banging the drums of war between nuclear-armed nations a little louder. Western media are churning out reports about Russia preparing to invade Ukraine any minute now and China preparing to invade Taiwan any minute now, saying the response to […]
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, […]
The Next European War
The Next European War The notion that history has nothing to teach us is one of the most pervasive beliefs in modern industrial society. It’s also one of the most misguided. Sure, we’ve got all these shiny new technological trinkets, and we love to insist to ourselves that this means we’re constantly breaking new ground […]
Stealing a Nation: Secret SAS Mission to Capture Mideast Oil Artery
Stealing a Nation: Secret SAS Mission to Capture Mideast Oil Artery British files seen by Declassified-UK reveal details of torture from 1970, when special forces invaded and annexed the Persian Gulf’s most important oil route, Phil Miller reports. A dhow in the waters off Oman’s Musandam Peninsula, 2007. (hoteldephil, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Fifty years ago, U.S. […]
Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart
Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The U.S. wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan showed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic military-industrial […]
NATO Sliding Towards War Against Russia in Ukraine
NATO Sliding Towards War Against Russia in Ukraine As far as Ukraine goes, Ankara seems to be setting the pace for NATO’s deepening involvement in the country’s war. Russia is investigating reports of Turkish attack drones being deployed for the first time in Ukraine’s eight-year civil war. The Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) under the command […]
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
Karen Greenberg, Apologies All Around (Unfortunately, Not)
Karen Greenberg, Apologies All Around (Unfortunately, Not) Just in case you didn’t realize it, the lost war in Afghanistan was their fault, not ours. If we had any fault at all, as Secretary of Defense and former Iraq War commander Lloyd Austin pointed out at a Senate hearing last week, it was not fully grasping how bad […]
Anyone Who’d Support Going To War Over Taiwan Is A Crazy Idiot
Anyone Who’d Support Going To War Over Taiwan Is A Crazy Idiot Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Taiwan has been in the news a lot lately, and it’s really bringing out the crazy in people. The mass media have been falsely reporting that China has been encroaching on Taiwan’s “air defense zone”, which gets stretched into […]
The Great Game moves on
The Great Game moves on Following America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, her focus has switched to the Pacific with the establishment of a joint Australian and UK naval partnership. The founder of modern geopolitical theory, Halford Mackinder, had something to say about this in his last paper, written for the Council on Foreign Relations in 1943. […]
