Militarism

US and allies must address Russia’s security concerns and their past deceptions on Donbass, the Kremlin says

RT | January 20, 2023 US-Russia relations are at their lowest point ever amid the crisis in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. As the conflict deteriorates, the only way to reverse it is for Western nations to acknowledge their mistakes and change their policies, he added. Despite initial hopes that under President … … Continue reading →

More than a “Syndrome”: Trauma, Distress, and Pain

I can’t even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don’t even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.” ― Charles Bowden, Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family You don’t need a thousand hours studying what trauma is, what forms it might take, delving into […]
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The Anglo-American War on Russia – Part Four (Targeting Ukraine)

Tales of the American Empire | January 19, 2023 In 2008, American President George Bush officially announced plans to add the nation of Ukraine to his empire. This would strike a serious blow to Russia by cutting its access to southern Europe. Ukraine was a key Russian trading partner that controlled most access to the … … Continue reading →

US encouraging terrorist acts against Russia – ambassador

RT | January 19, 2023 Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov has warned against future Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula, insisting his country would respond in force after Washington suggested Kiev may employ its Western arms to attack the region. Asked to comment on recent remarks from US State Department spokesman Ned […]

Ukrainian interior minister’s death leaves many questions unanswered

By Lucas Leiroz  | January 19, 2023 On January 18, a helicopter carrying senior Ukrainian officials crashed on the suburbs of Kiev, killing 14 people, including interior minister Denys Monastyrsky and his first deputy Yevgeny Enin. There are different narrations of what happened. At first, media said that the incident occurred due to a malfunction […]

Famous French Historian: “This War is About Germany”

BY NOAH CARL | THE DAILY SCEPTIC | JANUARY 18, 2023 Historian Emmanuel Todd is one of France’s leading public intellectuals. At the age of just 25, he predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union in his book The Final Fall: An Essay on the Decomposition of the Soviet Sphere. Later in his career, he carried out pioneering work on […]

US quietly shipping arms from Israel to Ukraine – NYT

RT | January 18, 2023 The US military is supplying Ukraine with hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds pulled from stockpiles based in Israel, according to the New York Times. The Pentagon is reportedly “scrambling” to find munitions as Ukrainian forces continue to exhaust their arsenal. The Pentagon has drawn from a “vast but little-known stockpile of American […]

Aiding Myanmar’s Military Regime

International relations remains the sum game of vast hypocrisies, a patchwork of compromises and the compromised. Every moral condemnation of a regime’s conduct is bound to be shown up as an exercise in double standards, often implicating the accusers. In the case of the military regime in Myanmar, double standards are not only modish but […]
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The Trouble with Western Tanks in Ukraine

By Brian Berletic – New Eastern Outlook – 17.01.2023  Western nations have begun pledging a variety of Western armored vehicles to Ukraine including infantry fighting vehicles and even main battle tanks. Until now, the majority of armored vehicles sent to Ukraine had been Soviet-era weapons Ukrainian forces were familiar with both in terms of operating […]

How America’s “Defense” Contractors Control America’s Government

Probably no corporation possesses a bigger share of control over America’s Government than does the one that sells more to the U.S. Government than does any other: Lockheed Martin. Actually, its top owners, or the group of stockholders who dominate the firm and cooperatively together control its policies and determine whom the corporation’s top executives […]