As it provokes a new Cold War, the U.S. is warning that its corporate and financial interests, which came first after the 1980s Dengist reforms, no longer take precedence, writes Patrick Lawrence.
As primates whose survival depended on social cohesion, being rejected by the tribe would mean almost certain death, so it was necessary to conform. But we don’t live in prehistoric times anymore.
This is a sermon the author gave on Sunday in Oslo, Norway, at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture). Actor and film director Liv Ullmann read the scripture passages.
Western officials — under cover of anonymity and from the safety of their desks — are expressing disapproval of Ukraine’s aversion to being killed, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
After his department was caught pushing the ouster of the democratically elected Imran Khan, the U.S. secretary of state is now praising Pakistan’s preparations for “free and fair elections.”
Every empire falls and the fantasy of American exceptionalism doesn’t exempt the U.S., writes Wilmer J. Leon, III. Yet the failing hegemon behaves as though it still controls events, but instead creates worldwide danger.
A U.S. senator is using a McCarthyite article in The New York Times to call for an investigation of nine organizations for ties to the Chinese Communist Party, including the renowned peace activism group CODEPINK.
UPDATED W/TRANSCRIPT: David Hicks took a so-called Alford Plea to get out of Guantanamo, pleading guilty to a single charge, but also allowed to assert his innocence. Such a plea could be offered to Assange.
Media speculation that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not attend the Johannesburg summit and that the nation isn’t receptive to BRICS expansion may be signs a threatened West looks to ‘divide and rule’, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
Presented by Alison Broinowski for the 2023 IPAN ‘Peacewave’ conference. With former Foreign Minister Bob Carr, Senator David Shoebridge, Senator Jordan Steele-John, Mary Kostakidis, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, David Bradbury, Kellie Tranter, Brian Toohey, Michelle Fahy, Vince Scappatura, Michael West, Dr…
