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U.S. admits defeat in war on Russia and China
Confronted with the realities of life the Biden administration has in the last days acknowledged defeat in two on its most egregious and delusional foreign policy games.
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Wagner head to move to Belarus, fighters not to be prosecuted: Kremlin
Fighters who did not partake in the mutiny will sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry and those who did participate won’t be prosecuted in recognition of their service.
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Glastonbury’s cancelling of a powerful film about Jeremy Corbyn
When Truth Becomes Silence
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Dark history: How the U.S. experimented on its own people
For years, government-related institutes have experimented on their own citizens, mainly minorities, to serve their own interests. Infamous and not entirely disclosed, here are some of the most unethical operations done by the U.S. on its own people and soil.
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And then Biden blew it …
The Biden talk, made official by posting it on the White House site, is an insult to China. Whatever Blinken has said or done to smooth the relations is now gone. It was already known that the U.S. can not be trusted with anything that it says. What counts is what the U.S. does and there it has so far shown no positive move towards China.
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Canadian sanctions on Russia: Powerless rage with a boomerang effect
Canada’s recent seizure of a Russian an-124 cargo plane, which had been delivering COVID supplies when it was grounded in February 2022 at Pearson Airport (it was forced to pay a fee for every minute, despite being trapped there), is another sanction among many others.
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Insurance industry refuses policies to those most in need as climate change unfolds
State Farm recently announced that it is halting new insurance policies for homeowners in the state of California, where the agency is currently the top insurance provider, due to rising “catastrophe exposure” coupled with inflating construction costs.
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Why should the decision of the British government to send depleted uranium to Ukraine be condemned?
The British government failed to review history and acknowledge the damage that has been caused to countries and their people through the use of depleted uranium.
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Can the European leg of the Triad break free from the Atlantic alliance?: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2023)
The No Cold War briefing above asks an important question: is an independent European foreign policy possible?
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New U.S. anti-immigrant measures: Militarization, and discrimination watches over the border
It is hard to imagine it could get any worse, but another calamitous situation has been created at the U.S.-Mexico border due to the new policies implemented by Joe Biden’s administration, which have forced hundreds of migrants to wait on the Mexican side.
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On the failure of the Ukrainian counterattack
On June 4/5 the Ukrainian military launched its long announced counteroffensive in southeast Ukraine. Ten days later there is no significant progress.
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False witnesses and sinister plots
For months, mainstream media across the Western world—in particular English-language outlets based in the constituent members of the ‘Five Eyes’ global spying network—have been rabidly awash with terrifying news of secret “Chinese police stations” operating the world over.
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Legendary whistleblower and anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg passes at 92
The U.S. anti-war movement fondly remembers the former government employee who contributed to the end of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam
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Why the world’s most bombed country may still suffer from these wounds after a hundred years
Laos is a country in Southeast Asia with a rich development potential based on vast water resources as well as minerals including gold.
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Discovering largest known U.S. slave auction
Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified, Jennifer Berry Hawes reports.
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Russia won’t let Ukraine be bleeding wound
Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Kiev has lost 186 tanks, 418 armoured vehicles, losses mounting,” St. Petersburg, June 16, 2023
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Strategies of denial
There has been a lively debate on the American left about the Biden Administration’s industrial strategy.
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Haiti: Stop the destruction of a Nation
Ever since the Haitian people successfully overthrew slavery and colonialism in 1804, they have been subjected to interventions and policies by the French and U.S. governments–from devastating “debt” collection to brutal military occupation, from coups to neocolonial puppet dictatorships–designed to destroy their existence as sovereign people, as an independent nation.
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Trump charges: why ‘unprecedented’?
“It is hard to overstate the gravity of the criminal indictment”, the New York Times editorial board wrote on 9 June, noting Trump’s “contempt for the rule of law”.
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Ukrainian counteroffensive’s second week ends in failure
First and foremost, the counteroffensive gambit has failed.