Fragmentary Connections: A Meditation on War, Peace, Community, and Climate

REFLECTIONS  Fragmentary Connections: A Novel, A Poem, A Song, Videos, A Meditation on War, Peace, Community, and Climate By Sue Ann Martinson REFLECTIONS Leadership Lately I have been reading a novel in which the war in Crimea figures as a background the plot turns on. No, not the current war, although the geopolitical reasons for More

The battle for Ukraine, with ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter

What Russia has maintained and what was pretty apparent was that this [Donbass] was a de facto NATO base inside Ukraine, which is technically not a member of NATO, so you're talking about de facto NATOization being the main factor in this war,,,I mean for Russia. This war was predicated by NATO's appetite for eastern expansion of the expansion eastward to include Ukraine..

Daniel Lazare | The Scandal Hidden Behind Russia-gate

The oil monarchies have thus used their petro-wealth to create a pro-war consensus in Washington that is nearly 100-percent complete. Needless to say, this will not benefit the mass of ordinary Americans, the people who will have to fight and die in such conflicts and whose taxes will pay for them.

Daniel Lazare | The Scandal Hidden Behind Russia-gate

The oil monarchies have thus used their petro-wealth to create a pro-war consensus in Washington that is nearly 100-percent complete. Needless to say, this will not benefit the mass of ordinary Americans, the people who will have to fight and die in such conflicts and whose taxes will pay for them.

U.S. Hypocrisy Around the World

How has information been suppressed so that many Americans have failed to grasp their true history? We know that corporate owned mass media reflects the power structure of our times. But education is also an issue.    By Don Irish  WAMM Newsletter  Fall I 2015 Published under the title, "Hypocrisy." Mary Beaudoin and Tom Dooley More

Diana Johnstone: Washington’s Iron Curtain in Ukraine

Tightening the U.S. Grip on Western Europe by DIANA JOHNSTONE  Counterpunch.org  Weekend Edition June 6-8, 2014 NATO leaders are currently a cting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron Curtain between Russia and the West. With astonishing unanimity, NATO leaders feign surprise at events they planned months in advance. Events that More

Cartoon: The U.S. Warns Russia (?)

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Cartoon: Tired of War

Bruce Gagnon  Organizing Notes  May 9, 2014 New poll by Zogby Analytics (893 likely voters, May 2-3) provides the latest war temperature test. "Do you agree or disagree that the United States should use whatever means it can to prevent Russia from establishing control over eastern Ukraine?"Agree - 29%Disagree - 36%Not Sure - 35%The American people might More

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