“An Apocalyptic Point of No Return.” Matthew Hoh’s Remarks at the UNSC Briefing on Ukraine
NEVER AGAIN! Apartheid, Genocide, Environmental Destruction of War and NEVER NUCLEAR WAR!
Caitlin Johnstone: The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine
Ukraine is a giant advertisement for weapons of mass slaughter, and the cost of that corporate ad is not money but human blood.
Jeffrey Sachs: NATO Expansion & Ukraine’s Destruction
From Ukraine’s independence in 1991 until the U.S.-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government in 2014, Russia didn’t show any interest in taking Ukrainian territory.
Rise Up Times, Media for Justice and Peace, Summary of Posts
Seymour Hersh, Summer of the Hawks; , Henry Giroux: Memory Work, Racism; Caitlin Johnstone: CIA ; Biden: Climate Crisis; A Line 3 Tale; Chile Constitution; Asia Pacific & NATO Expansion, China, So. Korea; Ukraine: Corruption, Zelensky
Europe on the Verge of War, by Michael Livingston
Russian President Putin suspended the last nuclear arms control treaty with the U.S., the New START (Strategic Nuclear Arms Reduction) Treaty. In his state of the nation address, Putin likened the demands made on Russia to “a kind of theater of the absurd” because the U.S./NATO demanded to inspect Russia’s nuclear facilities but refused to More
Alfred de Zayas: Provocation is Not an Innocent Act
The mainstream media frequently manages the narrative in an attempt to “legitimize” the use of force, e.g. by the US and NATO countries in Yugoslavia (1999), Afghanistan (since 2001), Iraq (since 2003), or to absolve the provocateur, e.g. to downplay or outright ignore NATO’s continuing provocations of Russia.
Is TikTok a U.S. Deep State Front? Robert Scheer Interviews Alan MacLeod
“In this case, we really have the best of both worlds for the U.S. government,” MacLeod says. “They get to keep these private companies, so-called private companies, at arm’s length, all the while filling their ranks with former State Department officials, former officials who worked at the White House or the Department of Defense or the FBI or the CIA.”
Rise Up Times, Media for Justice and Peace, February Voices, Summary 1
DONATE TODAY Media for Justice and Peace New Posts for February 7, 2023 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY TOP STORIES Is Nuclear War Imminent? Robert Scheeer interviews William J. Astore “We need to act together as citizens to be that vital check on the military industrial congressional complex, which is why I think there are so many More
DN! U.S. Faith Leaders Call for Xmas Truce in Ukraine as Zelensky Visits D.C. Seeking More Arms & Money
DMITRY PESKOV: [translated] The supply of weapons continues, and the range of supplied weapons is expanding. All of this, of course, leads to an aggravation of the conflict. This does not bode well for Ukraine.
The Corporate Media Deference That Endangers Us All, by Caitlin Johnstone
"This didn’t just affect AP staff, it affected the whole world; we deserve to know what happened and who was responsible, and AP has no business obstructing that knowledge from us."
War as Presentation, by Patrick Lawrence
Now we have the Ukraine case, and we need not bother with “ample reason.” It is open-and-shut evident at this point that we witness two wars as the Armed Forces of Ukraine face off with the Russian military. There is the presented war, the meta-war, you might say, and there is the waged war, the war taking place on the ground, nothing meta about it.
Patrick Lawrence: The Strong, and the Merely Powerful
Let me also remind you that the United States, together with the British, turned Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities into ruins without any military necessity during World War II. And this was done defiantly, without any, I repeat, military necessity. There was only one goal: just like in the case of the nuclear bombings in Japan, to intimidate both our country and the whole world. …