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War is not the answer to deep planetary insecurity: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)
The latest Human Development Report (2021–22) records that for the first time in thirty-two years, the Human Development Index has registered a second consecutive year of decline.
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Europe, more than Putin, must shoulder the blame for the energy crisis
The same arrogant, self-righteous posturing from the West that fueled the Ukraine war is now plunging Europe into recession.
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‘Avenging Sabra and Shatila’: On Israeli massacres and Palestinian resistance
September 16 marks the 40th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the killing of around 3,000 Palestinians at the hands of Lebanon’s Phalangist militias operating under the command of the Israeli army.
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Russian regrouping in Kharkov will speed up Battle of Donbass
The New York Times has disclosed that the U.S. shared vital intelligence with the Ukrainian military and took part in the preparation of the latter’s current “counteroffensive” near Kharkov.
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Why China’s first solar-powered, semi-satellite drone is a big deal
In a big step toward green development, China has built its first solar-powered large unmanned aerial vehicle.
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U.S. still fails to grant visas for Russian delegation to attend UNGA
Russia still waits for the U.S. to act on its “legal obligation” and provide the Russian delegation with the necessary visas to attend the UN General Assembly session.
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Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis
Economist Michael Hudson discusses partial student debt relief in the U.S., inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China’s challenge to the petrodollar.
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Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy
It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to educate American mainstream media (MSM) about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the roleof the United States in instigating that conflict for its own nefarious ends.
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Imperialism and Taiwan
The recent visit of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan has sharply increased the prospect of war in the region.
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Zelensky is literally selling Ukraine to U.S. corporations on Wall Street
Ukraine’s Western-backed leader Volodymyr Zelensky opened the New York Stock Exchange telling Wall Street his country is “open” for foreign corporations to exploit it with $400 billion in state selloffs.
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Journalists demand that the Mirotvorets Website be classifies as a terrorist organization and closed down
On 6 September 2022, a conference organized by the Anti-Repression Foundation entitled “Information Gestapo: Ukrainian nationalist website Mirotvorets lists are used to suppress free speech and repress journalists” took place in Moscow”.
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Chain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria
By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, U.S.-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence.
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‘Billions for Ukraine–we say billions for Jackson’
In 2022, in the richest country the world has ever seen, Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has no water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing a toilet, or fighting a fire. As of this moment, the situation is predicted to continue “indefinitely.”
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Good morning Donetsk…!
Reporter Alejandro Kirk describes daily life in Donetsk, a city besieged by Ukrainian artillery.
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We need a new “Church Committee” to curb massive intelligence agency criminality ranging from illegal surveillance to torture and assassination
Russia-Gate and CIA ties to Ukrainian death squads, along with killer drone program and worldwide surveillance apparatus, necessitates new investigations of U.S. intelligence agencies modeled after the Church Committee hearings of 1975.
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Renewed TPLF terror war against the Ethiopian people
After a fragile ceasefire lasting just five months, the TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) have once again initiated violent conflict with federal forces in Northern Ethiopia.
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Our latest interview with Jacques Baud
Jacques Baud (JB): The aim of this book is to show how the misinformation propagated by our media has contributed to push Ukraine in the wrong direction. I wrote it under the motto “from the way we understand crises derives the way we solve them.”
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Supporters of Palestinian rights should praise NDP’s dramatic policy shift
Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue?
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Biden to name Ukraine war general
President Joe Biden is planning to declare Ukraine an official U.S. military operation, the Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal reports, making it a separate command with its own general.
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Factchecking the factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and media access
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S.-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective.