John Wight on the grim context of the latest escalatory development in the blood-soaked proxy conflict between Russia and the West.
Raising the Stakes in Ukraine
Category: Militarism
The Continuous Mass Military US Violence
Caitlin Johnstone says it’s strange to spend her life criticizing the depravity of the empire. It’s a job that shouldn’t exist, like working as a vampire hunter.
Searching for Monsters
Public acceptance of U.S. foreign excess — searching for monsters to destroy — leads to acceptance of war, and to acceptance of war by other means, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Patrick Lawrence: ‘The End of Days’
Wars of Gog and Magog: Between the U.S. and Israel, our world is defined by those who view it in radically simplistic binaries.
Colonialism as a Bulwark Against China
Mick Hall reports on the Pacific Islands Forum taking place this week against a backdrop of simmering violence between French security forces and protesters in New Caledonia.
Caitlin Johnstone: Democrats’ Mad Middle East Platform
When you’re siding with John Bolton on whether to bomb Iran, you’re as insanely hawkish as it gets.
Pine Gap Readies for US Nuclear War
In Australia, the U.S. has been quietly expanding and refocussing its “most important surveillance base in the world,” preparing it to fight a nuclear war against China, writes Peter Cronau.
Craig Murray: We Are the Bad Guys
SCOTT RITTER: The Murder of Others
The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.
Scott Ritter: Voting Against Nuclear War
No matter who wins among the two major candidates in November, the United States is on track for a major existential crisis with Russia in Europe sometime in 2026.