Paul Craig Roberts: What Now Are the Prospects for Peace?

The American war machine consists of the economic and power interests of the US military/security complex and the hegemonic ideology of the neoconservatives.  The former requires an enemy in order to justify the unaccountable power of the security agencies and the $1,000 billion annual budget of the complex.  The latter…

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Patrick Lawrence: The New Iron Curtain

We have read a great deal about a new Cold War since the U.S. cultivated the coup of February 2014 in Ukraine and the nation was tragically divided against itself.  Some of us have ruminated in print, in this publication and elsewhere, on this emergent reality. With the back-to-back announcements…

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Give peace a chance? It’s entirely up to us!

Most folks are too busy and simply would not understand what I’m about to say. But you’re aware, you’re concerned about our future, and you hate war. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be on this website, which is 110% about stopping the war machine and throwing the warmongers out of power. We…

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Ajamu Baraka: US Peace Council Statement / Black Alliance for Peace

May 10, 2022 With the conflict in Ukraine entering its third month, the likelihood of a successfully negotiated peace — an immediate necessity — is becoming ever more remote. This proxy war by the United States is designed to use the Ukrainian people to mortally disable Russia. Those who profit…

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William J. Astore: Five Reasons Why Washington Can’t Break Its War Addiction

Why has the United States already become so heavily invested in the Russia-Ukraine war? And why has it so regularly gotten involved, in some fashion, in so many other wars on this planet since it invaded Afghanistan in 2001?  Those with long memories might echo the conclusion reached more than a…

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Finian Cunningham: U.S.-Led NATO Is at War Against Russia

We are now in the realm of World War Three. The abysmal situation is such that the war is in danger of going nuclear in which case the future of the planet is at stake. Incredibly, to warn of this danger leaves a person open to the accusation that they…

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US/NATO Wants War With Russia

Here is a speech Vladimir Putin could have made but DID NOT make — at least in this specific language — to the Russian people just before initiating the special military operations in Ukraine: “It is my responsibility as the president to warn our citizens of secret, swift, and extraordinary…

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Headline Mysteriously Missing: ‘Putin Prevents Slaughter of Estimated 1 Million Innocent People, Up for Nobel Peace Prize’

It’s challenging trying to figure out what’s going on with the MSM these days. What makes the front page often makes me think I’ve inadvertently flipped to the comic section. There’s one headline which has been conspicuously absent. While we understandably lament the breakup of Kim and Kanye and his subsequently being suspended…

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A Few Things Left Out of the Russia-Bashing Narrative

All of the bleating bloviators, all of the hand-wringing virtue signalers, all of the misguided misinformed peace lovers condemn Russia for its “invasion”. But somehow they don’t ever get around to mentioning the 100,000+ Ukrainian troops in the conflict zone. They don’t mention the huge deployment of lethal arms on the…

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U.S. State Department Checklist: Starting A War With Russia

The U.S. is making great headway at starting a war with Russia. This excellent work is the product of solid planning, making sure the public has no idea what’s really going on, sparing no expense or resource in demonizing Russia and slandering Putin, and keeping the propaganda machine running in…

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