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Jomo warns US policies are creating war and depression, pushing developing nations to strengthen democratic institutions of global governance

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. DaviesPresident Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the

Ukraine’s fall 2022 counteroffensive left it in a stronger position, yet Biden and his NATO allies still chose the battlefield over the negotiating table. Now the failure of Ukraine’s long-delayed “Spring Counteroffensive” has left Ukraine in a weaker position, both on the battlefield and at the still empty negotiating table. @codepink

China is in a powerful position to hurt many nations through trade sanctions, Sylvain Charlebois writes.

Introduction: 1 year of violence on top of 30 years of conflict: Too much wrong thinking The world’s focus is on the war. On February 24, it is one year since Russia launched its so-called special military operation. Much more important is to focus on the underlying conflicts – because there exists no war or

WE are now at the start of the second year of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The only certain thing about this conflict is that

The recent AUSMIN talks in Washington DC, which included US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and their Australian counterparts, Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong and Deputy PM and Defence Minister Richard Marles appear to have been highly productive and reflective of a close cooperation between allies.

The guiding strategy for the West during the First Cold War was to have such available deterrent capability as to ensure any nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union and its empire would end in MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).

How much would you have bet me if, a couple of years ago, I’d said that we would live to see the day when it would be illegal to enter a bank or a post of

Interesting Teach-in, well, discussion, with the speakers below. You will hear Scott Ritter divert from some of these speakers saying that the actions by Russia in Ukraine are legal, ethical and necessary. Here is Ritter, just interviewed, Strategic Culture. Note that Ritter is called a traitor (for looking at the Russian military and political angles)