A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, if it were law, would reduce the danger of nuclear war over Ukraine by stopping U.S. ATACMS attacks on Russia, reports Joe Lauria.
US Bill Would Reverse ATACMS Order
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Offensive Forces in Syria are Like Khmer Rouge
John Wight says the common denominator behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s and Salafi-jihadism in our time, is Western foreign policy.
CN Launches Drive in Time of Crisis
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The War on Consortium News
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SCOTT RITTER: Congress Must Prevent Nuclear War
Today is the gravest danger of nuclear war than at any time in the nuclear era. This is a reality so stark and intimidating that many people feel powerless to do anything about it. But something can be done.
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RAY McGOVERN: Neocons Try Again in Syria
Events during the Obama administration probably point to the way things will work out again, if the attack on Syrian forces continues for more than a few weeks.
Vijay Prashad: US to ICC: FU
The United States confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.
JOE LAURIA: A History of Humiliation
After a history of U.S. bullying and humiliation — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — it can’t be assumed Moscow is bluffing when it warns of nuclear war.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s ‘Samson Option’
It wasn’t hard to foresee that those planning and executing U.S. foreign policy, lacking all imagination and anything remotely resembling courage, would prove incapable of an orderly transition to a multipolar world order.