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Arms imports to Europe surge despite Global decline
As a result of military aid from the U.S. and many European states, Ukraine became the 3rd biggest importer of major arms during 2022.
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Why the U.S. banking system is breaking up
Economist Michael Hudson responds to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Silvergate, and explains the similarities with the 2008 financial crash and the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.
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Sovereignty, dignity, and regionalism in the new international order
A set of current processes force us to ask ourselves about the possibility of a military conflagration that could affect us all. Some researchers have asked, in the present tense: Are we at war?
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Leftist parties intensify campaign to maintain Swiss neutrality
The Communist Party and the Swiss Party of Labor (PST-POP) have made neutrality a key plank of their campaign in the upcoming elections. The political leadership of the country is being accused of compromising the policy of neutrality under the influence of NATO and EU.
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Silicon Valley Bank collapses, the bailout has begun
Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the U.S., was shut down on March 10 and put under the control of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.
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China’s peace plan for Ukraine
It will be attractive to the Global South, writes Tony Kevin. It will cause consternation in the Western war party camp.
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At least 23 Cop City protesters charged with domestic terrorism in Atlanta
At least 23 people, including a legal observer, have been charged with domestic terrorism as protests against massive police training facility continue.
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Imperialism and natural resources
There is an overwhelming asymmetry between the level of “development” and the possession of natural resources among countries of the world.
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Six war mongering think tanks and the military contractors that fund them
Leaders at top think tanks like the Atlantic Council and Hudson Institute have even been called upon to set focus priorities for the House Intelligence Committee. However, one look at the funding sources of the most influential think tanks reveals whose interests they really serve: that of the U.S. military and its defense contractors.
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Rail-lobbyist-turned-Senator could block safety bill
John Thune embodies the rail industry’s Washington influence machine that could now kill bipartisan safety legislation.
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Eight contradictions of the imperialist ‘rules-based order’
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has now moved the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has been to the symbolic time of the annihilation of humanity and the Earth since 1947.
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U.S. shoots itself in the foot in Africa
The U.S. can’t seem to understand that the rest of the world, including Africa, doesn’t like to be pushed around. African nations’ refusal to reinforce US foreign policy in the UN General Assembly is a case in point.
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Why a special party conference on the peace issue should ensure a new beginning for the German Left Party
The executive committee of the Left Party is trying hard to make it clear to citizens that this party is not needed.
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Australian Media are outright telling us they are feeding us war propaganda about China
The mass media in Australia have been churning out brazen propaganda pieces to manufacture consent for war with China, and what’s interesting is that they’re basically admitting to doing this deliberately.
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With us or against us’ fails in Munich and Bengaluru as U.S. tries ‘offer they can’t refuse’
“You can’t be neutral” in NATO’s proxy war with Russia, foreign ministers of the U.S., Germany and Ukraine told leaders of Global South countries at the Munich Security Conference on February 18.
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Black Alliance for Peace supports National Day of Action Against Police Terror
Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) member organization Community Movement Builders (CMB) is calling all organizations, organizers and community members to a National Day of Action Against Police Terror on March 9, 2023.
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Major U.S. outlets found Hersh’s Nord Stream scoop too hot to handle
Scores of hits from publications across the globe pop up from an internet search for veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh’s claim that the US destroyed Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipeline.
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Biggest threat from Ukraine war: Last Nuclear Agreement suspended
War rarely stays within the boundaries set or desired for it. That makes returning to arms control crucial for the survival of humanity.
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State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining
Canadian firms benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity at the expense of human rights and the environment.
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Why is Norway the glove that fits the USA’s hand?
In the sequel to his revelation of Norway’s and USA’s role in blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, Seymour Hersh addresses the long standing tradition of Norway’s secret and illegal collaboration with USA.