Rising Danger of War in Asia Pacific: U.S. v. China and North Korea?
National Security Strategy: Now 60% of U.S. Naval ships are in the Pacific
Seymour Hersh: Summer of the Hawks
The corruption so often “talked about in Niger is not about petty bribes by government officials, but about an entire structure—developed during French colonial rule—that prevents Niger from establishing sovereignty over its raw materials and over its development,”
You Can’t Project Power When the World Knows You are Weak, Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III
We can see the demise of the U.S. Empire happening in real time. According to Alexander Mercouris, host of The Duran, “the great period of danger in any international system is when the overarching empire declines, when it starts to lose control.
An Asia-Pacific NATO: Fanning the Flames of War
The webinar goes beyond analysis, offering creative ideas on what can be done to avert a major disaster and move the Asia Pacific region from confrontation to cooperative existence.
Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.
How can we countenance the decision by the U.S and its Western allies to block negotiations with Russia to end the war, despite Kyiv and Moscow apparently being on the verge of negotiating a peace treaty?
Prof. John Mearsheimer: Dissent on Ukraine, interview by Glenn Greenwald
Greenwald: I want to ask...about the cost beyond just the financial cost, in particular the reaction of the rest of the world to America and what it is doing to American standing. John Mearsheimer On US Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine Glenn Greenwald / System Update / July 1, 2023 https://youtu.be/rCLPxJ0wNhU Greenwald: More
Stop Explosive Investments: Producers of Cluster Munitions
Cluster bombs have caused over 20.000 casualties since 1960. Although banned under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, companies still produce these weapons. Still, some financial institutions invest in cluster bomb producers.
Max Blumenthal: UN Talk, Threats to International Peace and Security, at the UN Security Council
Threats to international peace and security - Security Council, 9364th meeting. Max Blumenthal: Threats to International Peace and Security, Talk at UN Security Council https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddc1ix_9MII A gift to Rise Up Times of any amount makes it possible to continue to bring you thoughtful analyses and reflections on current issues as well as events, stories, and opportunities More
The Surprising Pervasiveness of Pro-War Propaganda, Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies, Marcy Winograd
The war in Ukraine has divided progressives like few other foreign policy issues in recent years. A Foreign Policy in Focus commentary by John Feffer posted on Portside criticized CODEPINK'S position on the war in Ukraine. Here is our response. Antiwar protestors demonstrate against Russia's invasion of Ukraine outside the Russian embassy in Warsaw, Poland, More
How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, by Norman Solomon
Timing is crucial in media and politics—and never more so than when war is at stake. It’s completely unsatisfactory for journalists to toe the war line for years and then finally report, in effect: Now it can be told—years too late.
Sami Rasouli, Iraq Today: 32 years of war, sanctions and occupation since 1991
After a large protest in Iraq for change, led by young people, what is the Iraq of the people now. Iraq Today: the war, sanctions, and the continued occupation
Seymour Hersh: The Ukraine Refugee Question
Zelensky’s desire to take the war to Russia may not be clear to the president and senior foreign policy aides in the White House, but it is to those in the American intelligence community who have found it difficult to get their intelligence and their assessments a hearing in the Oval Office.