21st Century Wire says…
High powered figures in foreign countries are finally coming out against NATO.
German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has branded NATO as a ‘warmongering‘ force within Eastern Europe.
He has specifically attacked recent NATO exercises near Russia, speaking these very wise words:
21st Century Wire says…
Can we blame China for seeking to bolster its defences with the US acting so recklessly with military force throughout the world?
In the following episode of CrossTalk, three experts discuss the growing tensions in the South China Sea between both China and the United States. The central contention is that China is creating islands to repurpose as military outposts.
Australian health experts are warning that antidepressants are not as effective as previously thought. As a result, physicians in that nation are being told to scale back on prescribing the drugs.
U.S. Airforce A-10 Warthogs struck Allepo on February 9 when Russian planes were out of the area. Instantly, western propaganda went to work framing Russia, both for wonton aerial bombing of civilians and for destroying two hospitals. There’s nothing new with this.
Mark Urban is the diplomatic and defence editor of BBC’s Newsnight that goes by the strap-line: “This is where the global struggle for peace and security gets incisive, informed, coverage.”
He has just written and headlined with “US remains reluctantly tied to global security role” – categorised under US/Canada.
Urban’s article starts with.
The New York Times recently published an editorial lamenting the “shameful impunity of the Islamic State” and encouraging the United Nations Security Council to refer the group’s crimes to the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.). The editorial, titled “The Crimes of Terrorists” (4/2/2015), should more accurately be titled “The Crimes of the U.S. and Its Allies Should Go Unpunished.”
Despite the conclusion by US intelligence that there is no evidence of Russian involvement in the destruction of the Malaysian airliner and all lives onboard, Washington is escalating the crisis and shepherding it toward war.
Twenty-two US senators have introduced into the 113th Congress, Second Session, a bill, S.2277, “To prevent further Russian aggression toward Ukraine and other sovereign states in Europe and Eurasia, and for other purposes.” The bill is before the Committee on Foreign Relations.
By Steve Martinot | Dissident Voice | July 22, 2013
The Travesty goes like this.
The grounds for Zimmerman’s acquittal were that he shot someone, and killed him. Pure and simple.
The grounds for Trayvon Martin’s having been killed is that he decided to defend himself against someone stalking him.
Does it make sense? No. Is it true? Yes.
My reply to Roman Pearah’s blogpost: You have to refer to property rights and force to define aggression. “using someone as a means” won’t cut it. In fact it’s perfectly okay to use people as means: see my discussion in Causation and Aggression–the section “COMPLICATING THE PICTURE: CAUSATION, COOPERATION, AND HUMAN MEANS” on p. 101. […]
