Chris Hedges: Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Sixty-six U.N. members, most from the global south, have called for diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, as required by the U.N. Charter. But few of the big power players are listening.
Diana Johnstone: Washington’s Green Branches in Europe
"The Greens are in perfect harmony with the Biden administration’s new ideological crusade to remake the world on the American model. Echoing Russiagate, and with no evidence, the Greens accuse Russia of malevolent interference in Europe, while advocating their own beneficent interference in Russian domestic policy on behalf of some theoretical 'democratic opposition.'"
Diana Johnstone talks about her new book, Circle in the Darkness
"[Johnstone] recounts in detail how the Western left betrayed its historical principles of social justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grounds of “human rights”.
A Pandemic, the Geopolitical Struggle for Power, and the Urgency of Common Security
"The pandemic teaches that we are a single interdependent species, and that militarism and xenophobic policies threaten our security and survival."
Independent Media with Laura Flanders and other current issues
"There is something deeply wrong with having our news brought to us by the same corporations that bring us our killing."
US Neocon Wars Open Pandora’s Box in Europe
The European refugee crisis. Made In The USA.
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, A World in Peril
The Trump Presidency: Or How to Further Enrich “The Masters of the Universe”
John Pilger | A Blow for Peace and Democracy: Why the British Said No to Europe
The pith helmets may have long gone, but the blood has never dried. A nineteenth century contempt for countries and peoples, depending on their degree of colonial usefulness, remains a centrepiece of modern “globalisation”, with its perverse socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor--
How Western Military Interventions Shaped the Brexit Vote (Video)
On the economy in Britain, European austerity, middle class and working class Britons who voted for Brexit, against neoliberalism.
WikiLeaks Exposes Text from Secretly Negotiated TISA Trade Deal
The whistleblowing website went on to note that the proposals and language contained in the text promotes what it described as “the corporatization of public services.”
Rowley and Johnstone: Nationalism is not the only threat to peace
Op Ed: We fear that opposing arguments in favor of national sovereignty will probably not be discussed much during this conference. And yet, the European Union has served as an experimental laboratory testing what happens when a large and growing number (now 28) of sovereign states turns over a major part of their rights to supranational governance.
Imagery and Empire: Are all Muslims Terrorists? Are All Terrorists Muslim?
From the article: This imagery actually serves to de-politize the political nature of tensions. It sanitizes the actions of empire, from coercive diplomacy with Iran and support for regime change in Syria to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and US military intervention in Somalia, Yemen, and Libya.