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Top U.S. Official hails Nord Stream 2 blast
The Biden administration is very happy to know the pipeline is “a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea,” Victoria Nuland said
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Danish lecturer got sacked after not conforming on the war in Ukraine
The board at the People’s University of Copenhagen, Denmark, has canceled planned courses and fired the lecturer, after he publicly differed with required opinion on the war in Ukraine. The People’s University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is an educational institution founded in 1898 to ensure wider public access to science and research results, and therefore has […]
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U.S. public opinion shifting sides about Ukraine
The U.S./NATO war on Russia via its proxy Ukraine has awakened significant opposition here in the U.S.
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Hardly anyone is thinking logically about the risk of nuclear war
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been set since its founding after the second world war. Chief among their reasons for doing so is the increasingly dangerous war in Ukraine.
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U.S. Marines open new base on Guam to prepare for future war with China
Anti-base activists protested the opening, saying it will make Guam more of a target in a future war.
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Protests on Martin Luther King Jr. Day raise hopes for revitalization of Antiwar Movement
Demonstrators in 50 cities invoke King’s legacy in denouncing U.S. war machine.
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The C-17A has been cleared to transport B61-12 nuclear bomb to Europe
In November 2022, the Air Force updated its safety rules for airlift of nuclear weapons to allow the C-17A Globemaster III aircraft to transport the new B61-12 nuclear bomb.
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Right & Left to join in D.C. protest: “Not one more penny for war in Ukraine”
February 19, New Anti-Interventionist Coalition to March to White House from Washington Monument.
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B61-12: new U.S. nuclear warheads coming to Europe
In December, the United States is bringing new nuclear warheads to Europe. The B61-12 warhead is a more advanced warhead from the ones currently deployed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.
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“Chinese aggression” sure looks an awful lot like U.S. aggression
Punchbowl News reports that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning a trip to Taiwan, which will be yet another incendiary provocation against Beijing if it occurs. The previous House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, sparked a significant escalation in hostilities with her visit last year, the consequences of which are still reverberating today.
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Short video on the U.S. military and climate disaster
Ireland has to stop collaborating with the U.S. military/industrial complex by allowing U.S. troops and in Shannon Airport (3 million and rising so far).
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Exaggerating China’s military spending, St. Louis Fed breaks all statistical rules with misleading graph
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a jaw-droppingly misleading graph that portrays China as spending more on its military than the U.S. In reality, the Pentagon’s budget is roughly three times larger.
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Antiwar marchers honor MLK, say ‘NO’ to NATO proxy war in Ukraine
On Jan. 14, a large crowd gathered in Times Square in New York City to honor the true legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and demand an end to the brutal U.S.-NATO proxy war being waged in Ukraine.
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“Golden ruble 3.0” – How Russia can change the infrastructure of foreign trade
According to preliminary estimates of the Bank of Russia, in January-September 2022, it strengthened to $198.4 billion, which is $123.1 billion more than in the same period last year. This surplus was taken out of the country (at the same time, half went to pay off the external debts of Russian companies with their replacement by domestic ruble lending) and is reflected in the balance of payments item “net capital outflow”.
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Ukraine dissident digest
Donetsk city and region remains even now under intense fire by the artillery and mortars of the Kyiv regime, generously supplied by Western countries.
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The U.S. is already preparing for its next war: on China
While the U.S. and NATO wage a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, military strategists and pundits in Washington have set their sights on China.
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End of Cold War Illusions
In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”
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DADA NEW YEAR: Tristan Tzara’s Boom, Boom, Boom
I know I’m not the only one thinking that our world has lost its mind. It’s not easy being some relatively sane person nowadays. At the best of times, politics is bankrupt. At its worst, it’s toxic, dominated by demagogues, liars and cheats. Their falsehoods fly wholesale, rarely disgruntling masses of people, let alone damaging a demagogue’s political career.
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America’s theater of the absurd
Our political class does not govern. It entertains.
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The winds of the New Cold War are howling in the Arctic Circle: The Second Newsletter (2023)
In 1996, the eight countries on the Arctic rim—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States—formed the Arctic Council, a journey that began in 1989 when Finland approached the other countries to hold a discussion about the Arctic environment.