NATO

21WIRE | Washington and its NATO partners have now painted themselves into a dangerous corner over Ukraine.

Independent Donetsk-based journalist Alina Lipp of Germany details her prosecution by the German state for violating new speech codes through her reporting in the Donetsk People’s Republic. As the only German reporter on the ground in Donetsk, Lipp has exposed Ukrainian forces shelling civilians, attacking a maternity ward, mining harbors, and bombing a granary filled with corn for export. She faces three years in prison if she returns to her home country.

As the saying goes, if you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The West has the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), a self-declared “defensive” military alliance – so any country that refuses its dictates must, by definition, be an offensive military threat. That is part of the reason why Nato issued a […]
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As the bloody conflict in Ukraine continues, the rhetoric from the imperial spear-holders in Washington and some allies is becoming increasingly fixated with one object: victory against Russia.  Such words should be used sparingly, especially given their binding, and blinding tendencies.  When the term “unconditional surrender” was first used by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt […]

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator   The battlefields in Syria are quiet, but the conflict is far from resolution.  Despite the lack of focus on Syria by the US, EU and NATO, there are still developments in the region and among the various players.  Resolving the Syrian conflict seems to be on the back-burner […]

European and American media are actively spreading messages about problems and high losses in the Ukrainian army. Western publications help the Ukrainian military to complain about their difficult existence. These stories are built according to a pattern: the situation in the conflict zone is difficult, Russian artillery is very effective,ammunition is almost gone. Many wounded […]

The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.
The post Chris Hedges: NATO — The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet appeared first on MintPress News.

There are significant parallels between the international crises in Cuba in 1962 and Ukraine today.  Both involved intense confrontations between the USA and the Soviet Union or Russia. Both involved third party countries on the doorstep of a major power.  The Cuban Missile Crisis threatened to lead  to WW3,  just as the Ukraine crisis does […]
The post Handling International Crises: From JFK to Biden  first appeared on Dissident Voice.

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Jurgen Stock, Secretary General of the international policing organization INTERPOL, has warned of the eventual danger of the western weapons donated to Ukraine flooding the international arms market.  Conflict zones, criminal gangs, and terrorists may be the buyers of the donated sophisticated western made weapons of war. “Once the […]

Freddie Ponton | Another disastrous weapons transfer by NATO.