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Is Tehran Winning the Middle East?

From TomDispatch: You know we’re in an increasingly extreme world when a young American airman burns himself to death outside the Israeli embassy in Washington to protest Israel’s nightmarish war in Gaza. (“Today, I am planning to engage in an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people,” he wrote in an … Continue reading "Is Tehran Winning the Middle East?"

The Stories You’re Not Hearing About the Russo-Ukrainian War…

Several, seemingly small events in the Russo-Ukrainian War went largely unnoticed in western media recently. But each of them, in their own way, may be significant. The Fall of Avdiivka On February 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since Russia invaded his country two years ago. It was … Continue reading "The Stories You’re Not Hearing About the Russo-Ukrainian War…"

On Hypocrisy and Genocide – How Gaza Has Exposed the West Like Never Before

The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. As soon as the Israeli war began, following the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7, every moral or legal frame of reference that Washington and its western allies supposedly held dear was suddenly dropped. Western leaders rushed to Israel, one … Continue reading "On Hypocrisy and Genocide – How Gaza Has Exposed the West Like Never Before"

NATO’s Undeniably Corrupt Ukrainian Client

When Russian forces expanded their military presence in Ukraine in February 2022, U.S. officials and most of the Western news media portrayed the development as a brazen act of aggression by a dictatorship against a peaceful democracy.  The reality was much more complex.  Ukraine had allowed itself to become NATO’s pawn in Russia’s security zone.  … Continue reading "NATO’s Undeniably Corrupt Ukrainian Client"

Patriot Games: The Ideologies of American Warmongers

Just how stupid do they think we are? The balance of evidence provided by the public statements of senior Biden administration officials would suggest, very. Take the following vignette from US undersecretary of state Victoria Nuland’s speech on February 22nd in Washington: …I visited a center in Kyiv, that the U.S. supports, which helps Ukrainian … Continue reading "Patriot Games: The Ideologies of American Warmongers"

Jean Lartéguy: What is a monster? The man who starts a war, whichever side he’s on.

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Jean LartéguyBlack ChimerasTranslated by Xan Fielding “A pity this Major Volbert left the army when he did. A pity his successor did not see fit to abide by his opinion. No one ever listens to men like Volbert and … … Continue reading →

Pierre Boulle: Earth’s heritage squandered on dangerous expenditure

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Pierre Boulle: Converting the world’s arsenals into granaries Pierre Boulle: The long reach of war profiteers ==== Pierre BoulleLes jeux d’espritTranslated by David Carter For a long time they had all deplored the blindness of present governments, which grant derisory … … Continue reading →

N.Y. Post: Shed a tear for America’s rapidly vanishing freedoms

New York Post, March 1, 2024 Shed a tear for America’s rapidly vanishing freedoms by James Bovard “Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song.  Nine years earlier, Haggard had scoffed at potheads and draft dodgers in a White House performance for […]
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Pierre Boulle: Converting the world’s arsenals into granaries

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Pierre Boulle: Earth’s heritage squandered on dangerous expenditure Pierre Boulle: The long reach of war profiteers ==== Pierre BoulleLes jeux d’espritTranslated by David Carter All ministries of war would also be suppressed. Armies and armaments would be got rid of, … … Continue reading →