War
US Admits to Pushing Ukraine Into a Fight It Can’t Win
A US “windfall” in Ukraine comes at an unfathomable cost.
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Another Act of Terror. How the Media Do PR for Biden and Zelensky
Coverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and Nord Stream pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts.
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Caitlin Johnstone: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone contemplates the war in Ukraine, corporate media, the U.S. empire and more.
Read More There Has Never In History Been A Greater Need For A Large Anti-War Movement
❖Things are escalating more and more rapidly between the US-centralized power structure and the few remaining nations with the will and the means to stand against its demands for total obedience, namely China, Russia, and Iran.
Read More Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The longer the proxy war in Ukraine continues, the closer we come to a direct confrontation with Russia. Once that happens, the Dr. Strangeloves running the show will reach for the nukes.
Read More The Official Narrative On Ukraine
If you dispute any part of the official Ukraine narrative, you are an evil monster, and a disinformation agent. Because Vladimir Putin is the same as Adolf Hitler, you are also the same as Neville Chamberlain, and are guilty of the cardinal sin of supporting appeasement.
Read More How the Left Became Cheerleaders for US Imperialism
Figureheads like the Guardian’s George Monbiot have wrecked the left’s ability to think critically, encouraging an analysis of power politics more suited to the playground.
Read More War with Iran
The United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, responsible for military fiascos, hundreds of thousands of deaths and innumerable war crimes in the Middle East, are now plotting to attack Iran.
Read More NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet
The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.
Read More Forget Liberating Ukraine – We First Need To Liberate Our Minds
Because we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous.
Read More Russia-Ukraine War: George Bush’s Admission of His Crimes in Iraq Was No ‘Gaffe’
The former president’s confusion over the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine should lead to western soul-searching, not mirth.
Read More The US Could’ve Prevented This War Just By Protecting Kyiv From Nazis
This entire war could have been avoided if the US had simply pledged military protection for Zelensky against the far right extremists who were threatening to lynch him if he enacted the peacemaking policies he was elected to enact.
Read More The Persecution of Julian Assange
According to UN torture expert, the UK and US have colluded to publicly destroy the WikiLeaks founder – and deter others from exposing their crimes.
Read More They Actually Admitted They’re Lying To You! [News + Comedy with Lee Camp]
The Biden Administration and others have broken from the past and literally admitted they are “manipulating” or inventing various aspects of the war in Ukraine.
Read More The Pimps of War
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.
Read More When You Lie It’s Misinformation, When They Lie It’s Cool: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Can’t believe we’ve been watching people lose their social media accounts for posting “misinformation” this whole time only for US officials to come right out and admit that they’ve been running an active disinformation campaign where they knowingly circulate lies about Russia.
Read More Liberals Are Adopting an Old Soviet Tactic: Painting Opponents as Mentally Ill
The pathologization of dissent is not going away. It will intensify as neoliberalism faces crisis after crisis and social polarization grows. Those who claim to be liberals defending democracy will soon be only too ready to snuff it out.
Read More Hedges: Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.
Read More Twice in a Century: Russia Faces a War of Annihilation
The United States is in the early phases of a war of annihilation against Russia the aim of which is the total destruction of the economy, the culture, the population and the nation.
Read More Chris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed, or ignored. The terror we and our allies carry out against Iraqi, Palestinian, Syrian, Libyan, Somali and Yemeni civilians is part of the regrettable cost of war.
Read More Former UN Inspector Scott Ritter on What The Hell Is Happening in the Ukraine
UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter provides a concise summary of the geopolitics leading to the current Russia-Ukraine war.
Read More Let’s Re-Learn The Word ‘Detente’: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Western powers insisted that they were trying to prevent this war while doing everything possible to ensure that it happened. Now they say they are trying to end this war while doing everything possible to ensure it continues.
Read More The West’s Hands in Ukraine are as Bloody as Putin’s
If it succeeds, the West’s war machine will continue trundling over the bodies of the poor and marginalized as it drives us ever faster towards ecological collapse.
Read More Spotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation
Censorship escalates dramatically in the West. Anti-war political dissident Lee Camp tweeted Wednesday. “Let it be known – you can do anti-women, anti-trans or racist content on Spotify but you can’t be anti-war. That’s not allowed.”
Read More Has U.S. Imperial Striving Destroyed Our Chances for a Peaceful Multipolar World?
The U.S. government and ‘western’ media claim that the World condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That is however far from reality. It is only true if you believe that ‘the world’ solely exists of the 5-eye spying cooperation (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand), the European Union, Switzerland, Japan and Singapore.
Read More The Single Most Important Question In The World Right Now
There is one question today that is more important than any other question that could possibly be asked, and it’s this: “Is what the US and its allies are trying to accomplish in Ukraine worth continually risking nuclear armageddon for?”
Read More Russell Brand Offers Food for Thought on the Ukraine Crisis
Russia has invaded Ukraine – according to the much of the MSM and certain politicians it’s as simple as Putin being the new Hitler. But is it that simple? What role did our own governments play? And are we headed towards WW3?
Read More The Field of Peace
Until we dismantle the empire and terminate the Military-industrial complex, something like Ukraine will recur again and again, whether instigated (as is usual) by the US imperial hegemon or by the adversaries it generates from its us-versus-them worldview. Can’t we write another plot for the human drama?
Read More Russia-Ukraine: A Different Invasion, the West’s Same ‘Madman’ Script
Simple-minded media propaganda – like the claim Russia’s Putin is deranged – is precisely what brought us to the crisis over Ukraine.
Read More US Gov’t Knew NATO Expansion to Ukraine Would Force Russia To Intervene
Former US Ambassador to Russia William J. Burns, who is now CIA director, admitted in a classified 2008 embassy cable that NATO expansion to Ukraine crosses Moscow’s security “redlines” and “could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.”
Read More Hedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among diplomats and political leaders at the time that any attempt to expand NATO was foolish, an unwarranted provocation against Russia that would obliterate the ties and bonds that happily emerged at the end of the Cold War.
Read More Twelve Thoughts on Ukraine
This whole thing could very easily have been avoided with a little bit of diplomacy. The only reason that didn’t happen was it would have meant the US empire taking a teensy, weensy step back from its agenda of total planetary domination.
Read More We’re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War
This is so dangerous. This whole two-front nuclear brinkmanship game is so very, very dangerous, and they keep finding ways to make it more dangerous. And hardly anyone notices it, because the news media outlets that people look to to understand the world aren’t telling them it’s dangerous.
Read More Warmongers Should Be Treated Like Serial Killers And Child Rapists
California Representative Ro Khanna announced on Monday that he’d just hung out with Iraq war architect Bill Kristol and had a wonderful exchange of ideas, fully discrediting the myth of the progressive Democrat with a single tweet.
Read More US Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor.
Read More How the Media Cracks Down on Critics of Israel
It is widely recognized that critics of Israel, no matter how well-founded the criticism, are routinely punished by both public and private institutions for their speech.
Read More You’re Not A Radical, You’re Just Sane
The status quo isn’t the baseline of normality, sanity is. A sane, healthy world would look wildly different from this one, and we need to help people get clear on the distinction so we can all start creating that world together.
Read More Wonder Woman Is a Hero Only the Military-Industrial Complex Could Create
In preparation for the release of the latest Wonder Woman installment, we revisit Jonathan Cook’s review of the original 2017 Wonder Woman, peeling back the layers of comic-book fun to reveal below the film’s disturbing and not-so-covert political and militaristic messages.
Read More We Are the Terrorists
The US and its allies have been helping Saudi Arabia deliberately kill children and other civilians on mass scale in order to achieve a political goal. Which would of course be a perfect example of any standard definition of terrorism.
Read More Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Blogger/journalist Caitlin Johnstone provides us with her latest thoughts on the devastating distortions of the mainstream narratives.
Read More The Planet Cannot Begin to Heal Until We Rip the Mask off the West’s War Machine
After four years of Trump, the war machine once again desperately needs a makeover.
Read More This Isn’t Feminism, It’s Imperialism In Pumps
We should not be cheering for women rising to the top of a psychopathic war machine. We should be dismantling that war machine and rolling back all the conditions which led to it. True feminism, which is interested in guiding the world toward balance and heath in a way that benefits women and their children, would make this a priority.
Read More A Wrong Turn At Albuquerque: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Political blogger and activist Caitlin Johnstone shares her thoughts of the day about U.S. Empire and the precarious state of our society.
Read More You Can Have Peace Or The US Empire. You Can’t Have Both.
A nation that cannot exist without ceaseless war is not actually a nation at all: it’s an ongoing military operation with some suburbs and schools mixed in. This is true of Israel, and on a larger scale it is true of the globe-spanning, empire-like oligarchic world order that is loosely centralized around the United States.
Read More Nuclear War: A Thought Experiment
Living on the same planet as armageddon weapons and a global contract of mutually assured destruction should be something that you are acutely aware of, and something you have grappled with on an existential level to the fullest extent possible.
Read More Another Hiroshima Is Coming… Unless We Stop It Now
In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from five ‘ground zeros’ for nuclear weapons – from Hiroshima to Bikini, Nevada to Polynesia and Australia. He warns that unless we take action now, China is next.
Read More This Russia-Afghanistan Propaganda Story: Anything to Prevent Peace Breaking out?
Western propagandists are turning this completely empty story into the mainstream consensus, not with facts, not with evidence, and certainly not with journalism, but with sheer brute force of narrative control. And just in time to prevent the possibility of steps towards peace between the U.S. and Russia.
Read More May All Be Revealed
Written by Caitlin Johnstone “If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth.” ~...
Read More The Doomsday Clock
Never before this year 2020 has the world-famous Doomsday Clock registered only “100 seconds-to-midnight.” According to the Science & Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, since WWII, the world has never been so perilous.
Read More We Are Watching The Story Of America Crash Headlong Into The Reality Of America
Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. The U.S. empire is losing control of the narrative.
Read More Do You Consent To The New Cold War?
Written by Caitlin Johnstone The world’s worst Putin puppet is escalating tensions with Russia...
Read More Hilarious Kim Jong Un Jokes, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Blogger Caitlin Johnstone drops a series of humorous/painful truth bombs from her recent musings on U.S. Empire and more…
Read More US Escalates Warmongering Against Venezuela Because Of… Drug Trafficking?
The Trump administration is sending Navy ships to patrol Venezuela, the latest escalation against the government targeted by an aggressive hybrid US regime change intervention.
Read More Cold War, Coronavirus, And The Illusion Of Control
Everyone’s stressed right now, and if you ask them why they’re stressed they’ll tell you it’s because of the virus. But he primary driver of the stress is not the virus itself, but uncertainty about its future effects.
Read More What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
Assange risks 175 years in prison for the publication of secret US government documents revealing U.S. war crimes and torture, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Guantanamo even though the publication of classified documents is not yet a crime in the United States. But if Assange is extradited and convicted, it will become one.
Read More Guantánamo’s Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World
Here are eight ways in which the toxic policies of Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility have contaminated American institutions, as well as our laws and customs, in the years since 2002.
Read More So The US Is Invading Iraq Again
Though It won’t be as exciting as last time. If the initial invasion of Iraq was a violent sexual assault by a stranger in a dark alley, this one is more like an abusive husband raping his wife and then making her cook him dinner. But it is just as much a violent violation of personal sovereignty in both instances.
Read More Chris Hedges: The Myth of the Glory of War
If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war.
Read More Chris Hedges On The Rise & Fall of the U.S. Empire
Chris Hedges provides a compelling summary of the rise and imminent fall of the U.S. Empire, and its associated global corporate power and terrorizing of much of the world with illegal coups, sanctions, violence and war.
Read More I Never Saw a World So Fragmented!
It is amazing how easily, without resistance, the Western empire is managing to destroy “rebellious” countries that are standing in its way.
Read More Bolivia – A Color Revolution – or a New Surge for Latin American Independence?
It’s become a classic. It’s being called a Color Revolution, and it’s been taking place on all Continents. US interference in the affairs of other countries for the continued enrichment of their elites is endless, merciless, reckless, without scruples and deadly. Bolivia is just the latest victim.
Read More What Does the U.S. Public Think of Its Government Arming and Bombing the World?
We finally have some U.S. polling data that is helpful in the project of ending war. That it accurately uses the term “military” rather than “defense” and that it asks about moving the money to useful things is a cut above the usual corporate polling, rare as even that is, on whether so-called defense spending should go up or down.
Read More In A Society Built On War, We Must Do More Than Just Prefer Peace
We live in a civilization that was built by war. A civilization that is currently propped up by war. A civilization that has its future mapped out with war as its career and war as its retirement plan.
Read More The Age of Radical Evil
We live in an age of radical evil. The architects of this evil are despoiling the earth and driving the human species toward extinction.
Read More The US’s New Evil Empire
The US seems to have decided that it can’t take on China and Russia at the same time, so its principal geopolitical rival in the coming decades will be China.
Read More The Wounds of War in Afghanistan
Recovering from a broken hip, peace activist Kathy Kelly reflects on her experiences with people disabled and traumatized by war.
Read More Want To Save The Environment? De-Fund The Pentagon.
Written by Caitlin Johnstone / Medium Millions of people are uniting in demonstrations...
Read More How a London Arms Fair Shields the War on Yemen
As the world’s largest arms fair takes place in London, Lydia Noon talks to Yemeni artist Ahmed Jahaf about living under a Saudi-led military siege.
Read More How the Mainstream Media Pushes for Endless War
Written by Joshua Cho / FAIR On the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the illegal US...
Read More On the Precipice: The Collective Asteroid of Human History
It looks as if, in some future that seems ever closer, we might be our own asteroid, the one that will collapse human civilization as we’ve known it.
Read More Conflict With Iran Portends World War III
The importance of this cannot be overemphasized. It is, quite possibly, life-and-death for the planet.
Read More Empires Are a Secret until They Start Falling
Many are predicting that the U.S. Empire is on the verge of collapse. While the dangers of this are extreme, this also presents us with the opportunity to make great strides towards a world free of oppression, violence, and poverty.
Read More People’s Mobilization Unites For People And Planet
The People’s Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine and Save the Planet is two weeks away. The “People’s Mobe” will be held from September 20 to 23 in New York City during the United Nations General Assembly.
Read More U.N. Report Finds U.S. Likely Guilty of War Crimes in Yemen
A new report by a group of investigators commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council says the United States, Britain and France may be culpable for war crimes in Yemen.
Read More ‘Trailblazer in the Name of Peace’: Anti-War Hero Frances Crowe Dies at 100
“As we celebrate her life and mourn her passing,” said one friend and ally, “we know that the best tribute of all is to keep on fighting.”
Read More The World Is Uniting for International Law, Against Us Empire
“We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures.” That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the economic blockade against Iran and Venezuela, but the European Union. Even allies who have embarrassed themselves by recognizing the phony “interim president” Juan Guaido are saying the US has gone too far.
Read More John Pilger: We Are in a WAR SITUATION with China!
In this special episode of Going Underground, legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger is interviewed on many of the latest issues: looming war with China, the Hong Kong protests, the escalating cold war between the U.S. and Russia, sanctions on Venezuela and Iran, and updates on Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
Read More Kashmir Could Become the New Palestine
On August 5, India’s Home Minister Amit Shah introduced a bill that divides the Indian State into two parts: the Union Territory of Ladakh and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The people of Jammu and Kashmir are being increasingly oppressed, their situation representing that of the Palestinians more each day.
Read More Here Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need to Refute to Stop Another Illegal War
Last month, the Trump White House put out a typically Orwellian statement, chock-filled with lies, distortions, and half-truths about Iran and the 2015 nuclear deal.
Read More This Iranian War Vet Has Some Advice for Trump: Don’t Play Checkers with the Grandmasters of Chess
Dear President Trump, In a recent Tweet, you claimed that “Iranians never won a war, but never lost a negotiation.” As a world citizen and a veteran of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, I have firsthand experience with the bitterness of war, and I have a few suggestions and responses for you.
Read More A Young Poet Tells the Story of Darfur
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A Young Poet Tells the Story of Darfur
–by ted.com, syndicated from ted.com, Aug 09, 2019
I was 10 years old when I learned what the word “genocide” meant. It was 2003, and my people were being brutally attacked because of their race — hundreds of thousands murdered, millions displaced, a nation torn apart at the hands of its own government.
Read More Empire, the Deep State, and the Doomsday Machine
America’s hegemonic reign has given rise to three converging crises for humanity… An expenditure representing a small fraction of the annual US military budget could virtually eliminate such deaths, yet no such effort is forthcoming.
Read More War Is Hell. Why Are We Waging an Endless One?
Friday, August 2, marked the 29th anniversary of Operation Desert Shield, the military action that heralded the onset of the Gulf War in Iraq. That conflict, shifting from one iteration to the next, never ended.
Read More The Great Reckoning
In essence, the postmodern age was ending, though few seemed to know it — with elites, in particular, largely oblivious to what was occurring. What would replace postmodernity in a planet heading for ruin remained to be seen.
Read More Israel Demolishes 70 More Palestinian Apartments in East Jerusalem
Jeff Halper, a leader of the anti-demolitions movement, discusses the destruction of Palestinian homes, along with the history and politics that allows this violation of international law to continue
Read More We Got to the Moon. We Can Overcome War and Capitalism.
Written by William Rivers Pitt / TruthOut “For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon...
Read More The Task Ahead Is Enormous and There Is Not Much Time: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Interview with Noam Chomsky by Harrison Samphir / Jacobin Now in his 90th year, Noam Chomsky is...
Read More Fighting Climate Change Means Ending War
We have to start revering the whole planet, indeed, thinking as one planet, and valuing the people on both sides of the border. All of us are equal. At some point, even the war profiteers and the politicians they presume to own must wake up to this.
Read More Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin On What’s Really Happening in Iran
To get some straight talk about the conflict between the U.S. and Iran, as well as the historical context in which it is taking place, The Indypendent spoke with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink and author of Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Read More 16 Tons of Madness
Author John Hall describes a day in the life of an Arizona town, where “an extremely large percentage of my new neighbors’ lives depend upon the continuation of the sick-ass system of wars, violence, resource theft, border walls, and incarceration for fun and profit.”
Read More Empire’s War Under the Radar: Nicaragua
In April of 2018 armed and unarmed proxies of the US in collaboration with Nicaraguan elites launched a war against the Nicaraguan state, its government, its economy and its people.
Read MoreAn Honorable Course in Iran
President Trump expressed concern that 150 people could be killed if U.S. airstrikes against Iran had been carried out last week. We must ask how many people could die because of economic warfare against Iran.
Read MoreChoosing Hope
Sean Casleton interviews Noam Chomsky / Boston Review Noam Chomsky and Scott Casleton discuss socialism, anarchism, and the fight for progress in U.S. politics today. There is always the temptation to think of one’s own era of...
Read MoreClimate Change Is Bad for World Peace
As the global climate crisis worsens, so will armed conflicts. This depressing conclusion was made in a study published June 12 in the journal Nature. It brought together a panel of experts from various disciplines (economics, political science, environmental science, etc.) to analyze the threat that climate change poses to global security; the outcome does not look good.
Read MoreCatastrophe Is Coming, and We Can’t Kill Our Way Out of It
More and more, we look into our screens and gizmos. And this helps us — almost as if they were made for that purpose — not to think about the weather outside. Kept busy “curating” our own lives, we are regularly spared evidence of the coming catastrophe.
Read MoreA Soldier’s Defense of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
It’s a matter of principles over personalities. Whether one loves or hates Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange is besides the point. The First Amendment freedom of the press is at stake now. So consider this a desperate plea from a career soldier: pay attention! Defend those who subvert the military and government’s secrecy regulations. In such times real patriotism involves breaking the rules.
Read MoreCongress Can End the Yemen War This Summer, Despite Trump
Despite what Trump thinks, Congress has the power to end U.S. participation in the Yemen war in the coming weeks. Through consideration of NDAA and defense appropriations, and even legal action, Congress can end our complicity in war crimes and send a clear signal to the executive branch that unconstitutional U.S. participation in the Saudi-UAE coalition’s military campaign in Yemen must end. The question is, will they?
Read MoreVenezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution in the Crosshairs of US Imperialism
This article explores the contributions, shortcomings, and lessons of the Bolivarian Revolution’s two decades, in the context of the US regime-change efforts from its inception to current attempts by the US to install the unelected Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president.
Read MoreIn Media’s Looking Glass, US Doesn’t Threaten Iran But Merely Responds to Iranian Threats
US leaders have been threatening Iran for years, but US corporate media persistently and wrongly paint US escalations against Iran as defensive countermeasures.
Read MoreBernie Sanders Links Hitler’s Murder of His Family to His Fight Against Occupation of Palestinians
Bernie Sanders weighed in yesterday with a forceful message that connects the murder of his own family by the Nazis to his fight against the crushing, humiliating military occupation by Israel of Palestine.
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