The U.S. scored a public relations coup with Kamila Valieva’s humiliation In the winter of 2021-22, while figure skaters were competing in North America and Europe and preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics, the tensions around Ukraine were building. NATO-trained Ukrainian troops were intensifying attacks on the border of the breakaway...
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...
Saakashvili promotes NATO expansion into Georgia which is a clear “red line” for Russia The Georgian capital of Tbilisi has been engulfed in protests over the last weeks that have the appearance of a color revolution backed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot that finances civil...
Government-sponsored “fake news” is brainwashing the American public into accepting a new U.S./NATO-sponsored Cold War with China. A massive blitz of Western propaganda is behind the escalating U.S. cold war against China. President Biden and most of the U.S. Congress say China has become a serious threat that must be...
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...
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...
On July 4, 2020, the U.S. Navy dispatched an unprecedented two aircraft carriers and four other warships to the South China Sea for naval maneuvers in waters claimed by China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo subsequently broke with the official U.S. policy of neutrality in territorial conflicts in the...
Peace groups in all three nations need to rally against provocative alliance that is a pivotal component of war planning. The AUKUS pact (military initiative among Australia, the UK and U.S.) came out of nowhere in 2021 when Australia broke a $A90 billion contract to buy French submarines. Instead, it signed...
Foreign politics and censorship in Denmark, where I have lived off and on for 35 years, is actually worse than in the United States today. Not one of the 16 political parties with members in the 179-seat Danish Parliament (follketing) supports Russia’s reasons for its “Special Military Operation” (SMO)...
With large-scale protests against war and austerity engulfing the streets of Western (EU) countries, the political elite, in full-fledged panic mode, launched a propaganda stunt by indicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Lvova-Belova is the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights. She and...