Patrick Lawrence: The Imaginary War

It began when the Biden regime and the press misrepresented Russian aims in Ukraine. All else has flowed from it. What were the policy cliques, “the intelligence community” and the press that serves both going to do when the kind of war in Ukraine they talked incessantly about turned out…

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Finian Cunningham: NATO’s New Global Cold War Is Now Official

Russia and China, by holding firm, may be enough to push the U.S. axis into the grave it deserves. Finally, the United States-led military alliance called NATO has made its global cold war ambitions explicit. At last, the warmongering organization has come clean out of the deceptive closet it has…

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Dan Kovalik: World’s largest imperial power sponsors calls for Russia to ‘decolonize’ and the lack of self-awareness is palpable

On June 23, 2022, an organization funded by the US Congress, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe – also known as the Helsinki Commission – held a virtual conference calling for the “decolonizing of Russia.” This begs the question of why they are not seeking the decolonization of the United States.…

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Evgeny Norin . . . Not worth your sympathy: The story of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov battalion

Much less than the heroic defenders they are made out to be, the extremist regiment’s many crimes are well documented. Ukrainian propaganda has elevated the Azov Battalion’s protracted but ultimately doomed final stand, in Mariupol, to heroic proportions. Adding further pathos to this sentimental story were the desperate calls for…

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Key Points of Vladimir Putin’s Speech at SPIEF in St. Petersburg

Whether you personally think Vladimir Putin is a world-class statesman and visionary, the embodiment of evil, or something in between, it is of critical importance to listen to what the man says. He is the leader of Russia and speaks for the Russian people. Recognize that after over 20 years…

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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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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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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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