Andrew Fowler’s book Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco That Sank Australia’s Sovereignty (Melbourne University Press, 2024) was not written by a member of the peace movement. That is both a strength and a weakness. A strength, because Andrew Fowler is an award-winning investigative journalist, who has worked in mainstream Australian...
Biden-Putin Teleconference: Putin Rejects Biden’s Demand That U.S. Take Control Over Negotiations Between Ukraine and Its Former Donbass Region
Eric Zuesse - 6
The two-hour December 7th Biden-Putin conversation (via video-conference) focused mainly on the conflict between Ukraine and its breakaway former Donbass region, which is in Ukraine’s far east and borders on Russia.
In order to understand the conversation, some basic history that produced the current situation there needs to be stated, because this...
U.S. Expands Military Bases in the Eastern Mediterranean and Lures Debt-Weary Greece into Provocative Military Partnership for Geopolitical Control of Region
Andrew Lee - 1
Thousands of Greeks have come out to protest the expansion of U.S. military bases in Greece, arguing this will further destabilize the region and perilously enmesh Greece in endless imperialist wars. Since the arrival of Geoffrey Pyatt as the American ambassador to Greece in October 2016, the government in...
CovertAction Bulletin: U.S. Information War Against China Heats Up With Increasing Attacks On Chinese American Researchers
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
Carl Zha, host of Silk and Steel Podcast, joins us to discuss the continued escalation of U.S. Cold War on China. The U.S. information war on China heats up with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s recent statement about the U.S. government’s prosecution of Chinese officials for alleged “attempts” to undermine U.S. democracy. What exactly does the U.S. hope to accomplish by indicting an official who will never stand trial?
New Bill That Passed House Reinvokes Old Russian Bogeyman as Pretext For More U.S. Intervention in Africa
Richard S. Dunn - 9
Liberal Democrats shamefully all voted for the “Countering Malign Russian Influence Activities in Africa” Act—seems like relic from bygone era
During the Cold War, the U.S. government invoked the pretext of Russian interference to justify a range of crimes, including the assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, the...
For First Time in More Than 50 Years, U.S. and Russia Have No Agreements for the Regulation of Nuclear Weapons
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
Expiry of New START is set to trigger dangerous new nuclear arms race
On February 5, the Trump administration allowed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) to expire, leaving the U.S and Russia with no agreements for the regulation of nuclear weapons for the first time in more than...
Protests Erupt Against U.S. Military Exercises and Expansion of U.S. Military Footprint in The Philippines
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
Filipinos Don’t Want to Be Used as a “Footstool for American Power Projection and Provocation” Says Filipino Peace Activist
This past month, more than 3,000 U.S. and Filipino soldiers participated in a three-week live-fire military exercise called Balikatan, which included a drill to blow up a mock Chinese warship in...
NATO Had Plans for a Preemptive Strike on Russia Using the Cover of a French-Led Naval Exercise in the Mediterranean
Sonja Van den Ende - 10
Revelations further underscore mendacity behind Biden administration claim that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked
POLARIS 21 was a large-scale French naval exercise in the Mediterranean that took place from November 18 to December 3, 2021, off the island of Corsica between France and Italy.
Officially, the aim of the training...
Off the Rails: New Report by Corporate-Funded Think-Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China
Danny Haiphong - 5
New report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world. Published in Railway Age magazine and written by the Information Technology Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the report sounds the alarm about China’s growing high-speed rail sector amid escalations in the U.S.’s New Cold War against China, of which technology is a key component.
On March 4, 2018, Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former Russian intelligence officer turned British defector was allegedly poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, along with his 33-year-old daughter Yulia.
The two were admitted to a hospital after they were allegedly found unconscious on a public bench in the...









