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Biden breaks all-time record for most weapons sold during fiscal year
The U.S. President, who has constantly held up the banner of human rights in his policies with non-friendly states, has sold weapons to the majority of ‘autocratic’ states in 2022.
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The work that Tricontinental does: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2023)
Over the past few years, we have become increasingly alarmed by the serious tensions that have been imposed on the world.
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UN nuclear watchdog chief says intensified fighting around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ‘unpredictable and dangerous’
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says intensified fighting around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine render the situation “unpredictable and potentially dangerous.”
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The Pentagon has been recolonizing University campuses—why aren’t more students protesting?
Once upon a time getting a college degree meant reading classic literature and philosophy, learning about history and politics, studying mathematics and science, learning new languages, and debating the great issues of the day in student forums.
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Biden nukes Korea, builds anti-China alliances
Although it was widely believed that the U.S. continued to secretly deploy nuclear weapons in Korea, this move by the Biden administration is a blatant violation of the denuclearization treaty.
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U.S. media promotes absurd claim that Russia staged attack on Kremlin
Following Wednesday’s drone attack on the official residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S. media sprang into action to promote the ridiculous claim that Russia staged the attacks.
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U.S. troops in Somalia rise to 900, House votes not to withdraw
The presence of U.S. troops in Somalia helps the Islamist insurgency Al Shabaab recruit, exacerbating the very violence they claim to be fighting. But the House has voted down a resolution to withdraw.
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Ukraine tried to attack the Kremlin with drones
Despite what happened, the military parade on Red Square will go ahead as planned, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said.
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Zelensky regime’s fate is sealed
Make no mistake, this is a tipping point; the clumsy attempt on Putin’s life jolts the kaleidoscope beyond recognition.
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Poetry politics and war: Berlin Bulletin no. 210, May 3, 2023
The fearful destruction, the displacement of families, above all the killing and maiming must be deplored, condemned and brought to an end. But the underlying reasons for this terrible war, concealed in the media, must also be mercilessly examined, regardless of well-orchestrated accusations of “Putin-friendship” or “left-over allegiance to a past Soviet Russia”.
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U.S. makes up c 40% of global military spending, 10x Russia, 3x China
The United States spent $877 billion on its military in 2022, nearly 40% of the global total, 10 times more than Russia ($86.4 billion), and three times more than China ($292 billion). The U.S. military budget is larger than the next 10 biggest spenders combined.
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Whither Ukraine’s counteroffensive?
The month of May has arrived but without the long-awaited Ukrainian “counteroffensive”.
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From yellow journalism to China bashing, the media’s enduring role in promoting war
In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war.
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Xi Jinping speaks with Zelensky about China’s peace plan for Ukraine
The president of China, Xi Jinping, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, held their first contact since the beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia in February 2022, as reported by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
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Who gains from a forever war in Ukraine?
The newly elected president of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel is an unusual European politician. He is the second president in his country with a military background but the first without political experience.
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You are reading this thanks to semiconductors: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2023)
On 7 October 2022, the United States government implemented export controls in an effort to hinder the development of China’s semiconductor industry.
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ICC’s Putin arrest warrant based on State Dept-funded report that debunked itself
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a network of camps inside Russia. The warrant was based on a report by the Yale HRL center, which is funded by the U.S. State Department.
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Global military spending reaches record $2,240 billion: SIPRI
According to SIPRI, global military spending will reach a new record high of $2,240 billion in 2022.
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Anti-NATO protests in Sweden as the country hosts large int’l exercise
Protesters across 17 cities in Sweden, including Stockholm, voice opposition to the international military exercise hosted by their country.
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Snowden and Texeira: Ten years of disaster
Jack Texeira is at the centre of this puzzle but remains the missing piece. We have heard nothing from him. A rather unconvincing interview with a suspiciously fluent, pixeled out acquaintance grassing him up to the Washington Post stated that he was a right wing patriot.