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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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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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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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Top Biden officials address pro-war rally led by Ukrainian Nazi supporters
The rally would have been unremarkable if it were not for it being the anniversary of the invasion and for the big names on the speaker roster.
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Why and how to end the war in Ukraine
Jacqueline Luqman was a panelist on the February 16, 2023 webinar Why and How to End the War in Ukraine , which was sponsored by Chicago Area Peace Action. These were her remarks.
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West is out of touch with rest of world politically, EU-funded study admits
A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found the West is out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, and they want multipolarity, not continued “American global supremacy”.
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Despair and Joy: Berlin Bulletin 208, February 28, 2023
Were any flags of sympathy displayed when the people of Serbia, Iraq or Afghanistan were bombed? When drones exploded on hospitals and wedding processions—were there also calls for tribunals against Bush—or Obama?
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Russia and China draw ‘red lines’ on their borders; U.S. draws them on the other side of the Planet
Reacting to China’s announcement that it will be putting forward a proposal for a political settlement to end the war in Ukraine, the US ambassador to the United Nations said that if China begins arming Russia in that conflict this will be a “red line” for the United States.
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U.S. sends troops to Taiwan after general threatens war with China by 2025
The United States will quadruple the number of US forces stationed on Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, in an effort to provoke a war with Beijing along the lines of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Fidel Castro’s legacy lives on as Cuba keeps sending ‘Doctors, not Bombs’ all across the World
In the immediate aftermath of the recent devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Cuba dispatched medical teams to the affected areas to provide care to victims. Their departure was marked by a farewell ceremony, which featured a large photo of Fidel Castro.
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The Ukraine War viewed from the Global South
In October 2022, about eight months after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys that asked the inhabitants of 137 countries about their views of the West, Russia, and China. The findings in the combined study are robust enough to demand our serious attention.
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West tells Global South ‘you can’t be neutral’ in Ukraine war: You are either with us, or against us
The foreign ministers of the US, Germany, and Ukraine told the world at the Munich Security Conference, “Neutrality is not an option” in the West’s proxy war against Russia, implicitly criticizing the vast majority of Global South countries, which are independent.
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The French are going, but the war in the Sahel continues
Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who leads the Burkinabé government, came to power through a coup d’état in September 2022. He ousted Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had himself come to power through a coup in January 2022. Neither of these coups was a surprise.
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The power-serving myth that anti-war protests make no difference
Thousands of people from across the political spectrum gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC to protest U.S. militarism, proxy warfare and nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine on Sunday.
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Syria just suffered a devastating earthquake but Israeli bombing does not stop
Israeli attacks on Syria continue even as Syria struggles with the aftermath of the February 6 earthquake, in which over 5,800 were killed.
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Mapping Faultlines: The planning, execution, and aftermath of Nord Stream sabotage
In this episode of Mapping Faultlines, NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha explains the details of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines as revealed by journalist Seymour Hersh. He also talks about how benefited from this sabotage.
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Methane is 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2
The #NordStream sabotage released 300,000 metric tonnes of this gas into our atmosphere–a climate and environmental crime.