Now is the time for Biden to clarify U.S. nuclear doctrine. But he remains silent.
Category: Russia
Caitlin Johnstone: The Lunatic Argument That Nuclear Brinkmanship Makes Us Safe
The imperial spinmeisters for the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine are trying to get us to believe that de-escalation is dangerous.
60 Years After the Cuban Missile Crisis
With the conflict in Ukraine putting the world back on the brink, Robert Dodge confronts the false narrative that nuclear weapons make us safe.
Electric Cars & Resource Wars
The greatest potential for conflict over battery metals may not be in Asia, Africa or the Americas, write Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox. It may not be on any continent at all.
The Response NewsGuard Rejected
On June 2, Consortium News responded to NewsGuard’s allegation that CN was publishing “false content” on Ukraine, a response NewsGuard rejected when it gave CN its red mark.
Caitlin Johnstone: Pushing Nuclear War on a Fiction
An entire globe-spanning empire rests on our closed eyelids. It depends on keeping us in a propaganda-induced coma.
NewsGuard Is Warning People About Us
Caitlin Johnstone: US Rejects Moscow’s Offer to Talk
It’s inexcusable that these direct peace negotiations are not already underway. The recent escalation of this war makes peace talks more necessary, not less.
SCOTT RITTER: Pipelines v. USA
Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.
Caitlin Johnstone: Big Brains Going Extinct from Stupidity
This is peak crazy. A thinking species that regards as outrageous heresy any opposition to nuclear-war brinkmanship that can cause its extinction cannot get any more crazy.