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In the Amnesic Dizziness of a "Turn of the Times"
Rainer Werning and Petra Erler
2022-03-06 11:38 PM
When, with the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact, the entire military alliance of this rival collapsed, this could/must have been the prelude, according to rational criteria, to mothballing NATO in return. But exactly the opposite was to occur. (text/plain)
"The victor is not the one who wins the battles"
A Kluge, KJ Herrmann & P Cockburn
2022-03-05 11:55 AM
Stubborn resistance Although the war is still in its infancy, it is no walk in the park for Russian forces, which are facing fierce resistance. It will be difficult for the Russian army to gain control of cities, towns, and highways and hold them in the face of attacks by regular and guerrilla forces... (text/plain)
Truth dies first and then intelligence
Rob Kenius
2022-03-03 1:43 PM
The war in Ukraine is an exception to the rule of thumb that in war the truth dies first. The truth was already dead before the war began... War is the greatest crime imaginable. War creates endless suffering, whoever starts war is a war criminal. (Note: There is only one exception) (text/plain)
For a free and sovereign Ukraine
International Labor Network
2022-03-02 3:44 PM
We cannot accept the intervention and military repression of the population set in motion by Russia; it is equally unacceptable to open any space to the representatives of imperialism who are trying to expand their rule by means of wars that ensure profits & more power for capitalists. (text/plain)
Shooting resumes in the Donbass civil war
Richard Sakwa
2022-02-28 2:58 PM
Not so long ago, Ukraine was committed to neutrality. If Ireland can be neutral, if Austria can be neutral, if Finland can be neutral, then why not Ukraine? After all, this was the official Ukrainian policy until the neo-nationalists came to power in 2014. (text/plain)
No to the war over Ukraine
isw directors & Phyllis Bennis
2022-02-27 11:23 AM
Right now we need an immediate ceasefire and serious negotiations on broader issues. That means urgent diplomacy — not more military force — to end this war. Every war eventually ends with diplomacy. (text/plain)
LeftEast condemns Putin's imperial war against Ukraine
LeftEast
2022-02-26 1:37 PM
We say "No!" to Moscow and "No!" to the false choice between Moscow and NATO in the future. We demand an immediate ceasefire and a return to the negotiating table. The interests of global capital and its military machine are not worth another drop of blood. Peace, land and bread! (text/plain)
Wars hardly achieve their intended goal anymore
Armin Groh
2022-02-25 3:00 PM
The third Gulf War ended Saddam Hussein's rule but resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, the emergence of IS, and a dramatic crash in living standards. Intervention in Libya succeeded in toppling Gaddafi, but turned Libya into a failed state. (text/plain)
Peace policy instead of escalation
Peace in Europe coalition
2022-02-24 10:51 AM
We call on the peace movement and all people interested in peace in Europe to participate in public actions, information booths, vigils, demonstrations and initiatives for these demands.
to stop the march into the abyss. (text/plain)
Diplomacy instead of preparation for war
Telepolis editorial
2022-02-23 2:45 PM
All existing mutual obligations under international law should be used to achieve mutual security. Lasting security cannot be achieved against each other, but only with each other. (text/plain)
America's disastrous 60-year war
William Astore
2022-02-22 12:49 PM
America's 60-year war, a losing proposition for many, turned out to be a clear winner for a few, In his book,1984, Orwell wrote about permanent war as a way to consume the products of modern capitalism without a higher standard of living for workers.. (text/plain)
Today's Crisis Over Ukraine
Jack Foust Matlock, Jr.
2022-02-21 4:12 PM
What President Putin is demanding, an end to NATO expansion and creation of a security structure in Europe that insures Russia’s security along with that of others is eminently reasonable... It is in the interest of the United States to promote peace, not conflict. (text/plain)
The Creative Universe
Roland Rottenfusser
2022-02-18 12:52 PM
Evolution is more than struggle for existence and competition. Modern scientists are discovering elements of beauty, play and freedom in nature. Apparently spontaneously, life keeps producing new forms. Yet evolution seems headed toward a goal: the universe can view and enjoy itself. (text/plain)
Chris Barrett Design to be featured at Desert Oasis Show House
Lori De Waal
2022-02-15 10:12 PM
Feel the Aloha! Chris Barrett Design to be featured at Desert Oasis Show House, March 31 through April 10, 2022 (image/jpeg)
I don't want Russia and China marching arm in arm
M Platzeck, U Gasche & R Simon
2022-02-15 10:11 AM
We should also take a step back and look at somewhat longer horizons, not just the moment - the aim must be to win Russia back as a partner. One sentence by Egon Bahr remains true: "Without or against Russia, there will simply be no peaceful future on this continent." (text/plain)
The hatchet not buried
Alexander Neu
2022-02-14 11:59 AM
In short: Either we accept the cultural and historical plurality as well as the legitimate security interests of all states on our globe - and not only of the West - and actively support UN international law or we will perish together. (text/plain)
An 8-Week Course by FTPROC and Jericho Boston
imc repost
2022-02-14 2:26 AM
An 8-Week Course by FTPROC and Jericho Boston (text/plain)
Constant State of Emergency
Kai Ehlers
2022-02-14 12:02 AM
The wars are waged by special forces, while the population is kept quiet in a permanent state of emergency under the slogan "war is peace" by full technical control, including mental and health surveillance. Anyone who questions this kind of peace is threatened with annihilation. (text/plain)
How did Wyoming become a Tax Haven
cheddar news
2022-02-12 9:29 PM
Allison Tate, law professor at the University of Richmond, is interviewed. The risk is that money is taken out of the tax base. This is documented in the Pandora Papers. (text/plain)
Interview on The Black Book of Capitalism
Robert Kurz
2022-02-12 6:36 PM
The book is: 1) a history of the three great industrial revolutions (introduction of the manufacturing system with the steam engine at the beginning of the 19th century, Fordist “self-mobilization” with the assembly line and the rationalization and the microelectronic revolution. (text/plain)
The Ukraine-Russia conflict
J Bischoff, O Konig & R Detje
2022-02-09 2:15 PM
"The West must negotiate with Russia"
NATO should also agree to talk about a new European security architecture if Russia is also willing to agree to de-escalating and confidence-building measures in the relationship with Ukraine." (text/plain)
Will Orwell's prediction in `1984' become reality?
Kai Ehlers
2022-02-07 12:08 PM
Basic elements of a development such as Orwell describes are emerging from the fog of current war propaganda, as it is being pursued by the West, attempts to drive the population into acceptance of a constant exceptional situation where war appears as the guarantor of peace. (text/plain)
Enlargement to the East: How Nato broke its word
Norman Paech
2022-02-06 2:39 PM
One point of contention, however, should have been settled by the declassified documents. They allow no other conclusion than that the West made a promise to Gorbachev to leave NATO in its former borders, but that this promise was already broken at the end of the 1990s. (text/plain)
Michelle Danner opens Creative Center for the Arts
De Waal & Associates
2022-02-03 7:31 PM
After a career helping actors, Michelle Danner has also found ways to fulfill her own. (image/jpeg)
The West and Russia
Wolfgang Schwarz
2022-02-03 2:31 PM
Any NATO expansion that moves closer to Russia's borders must appear to Russian nationalists as a threat; to moderate Russians Bertram concludes, "It is therefore either thoughtless or dishonest to declare, as the West does, that NATO enlargement is inevitable." (text/plain)
The bone of contention
Kai Ehlers
2022-02-02 2:12 PM
Russia really wants only one thing: to prevent Ukraine from becoming a full NATO country. Against the background of the current overall political situation, the West's behavior points to one thing above all: Its own population is to be kept in suspense by a succession of shocks. (text/plain)
Who is Bernie Sanders?
Frank Blenz
2022-01-31 1:13 PM
The question is why a man like Bernie Sanders (Democratic Party) is not U.S. president, but his colleague Joe Biden is. It will probably be because he says such sentences:
Our government must work for ordinary Americans, not for the top 1%. (text/plain)
"The US is lying to itself"
Urs P Gasche and Bernhard Trautvetter
2022-01-29 1:07 PM
The U.S. government, he said, should recognize the "brutal fact" of spheres of influence. Washington cannot continue to claim that "only brutal tyrants like Putin want to influence neighboring countries." Because the U.S. would be "lying to itself" by doing so. (text/plain)
The Curse of Financial Entrepreneurship
Robert Reich
2022-01-25 10:55 PM
We are not prisoners of bad decisions made in the past. We can and should rein in Wall Street, break up its five giant “too-big-to-fail” banks, support local and state banks, resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act’s divide between investment & commercial banking, tax all financial transactions (text/plain)
NATO ignites
Bernhard Trautvetter
2022-01-24 3:40 PM
The instrument of using half-truths is found in Nato propaganda where it cherry-picks Russian law-breaking in the Crimea crisis to portray Russia as a threat, forgetting the Western-blamed law-breaking in the weeks before: the pro-Western Yatsenyuk "interim government." (text/plain)
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