Peter Scott, RT anchor: Joining us now is Michael Hudson, economist and author of “Super-Imperialism” and the recently-published “Destiny of Civilization”. Welcome to the program, Michael. Michael Hudson: It’s good to be back. PS: Let’s say all these European programs like the REPOWER Program come into effect, how do you expect the EU standing to be on the stage after that? MH: Well, the EU standing will be squeezed economically. It was trying to be a powerhouse in the world economy but in the last month the euro has been declining steadily against the dollar and it’s on the way to […]
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Above Photo: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to a group of supporters during a rally at the U.S. Capitol on August 03, 2021 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images. To Raytheon And CIA: “For Ukraine.” “The US Anti-War Left Is Dead. The Squad’s $40b War Vote Just Killed It.” Many Dems Voting YES Have Long Denounced Exactly These Sorts Of Bills. What Happened? After Joe Biden announced his extraordinary request for $33 billion more for the war in Ukraine — on top of the $14 billion the U.S. has already spent just ten weeks into this war — congressional leaders of both parties […]
Above Photo: President Biden signs into law the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 in the White House on May 9. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images. The bill loosens restrictions on Biden’s ability to send arms to Ukraine, paving the way for an escalation in military aid. President Biden on Monday signed a bill into law reviving the World War II-era lend-lease program for Ukraine, paving the way for an escalation in US military aid to Kyiv. The Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 allows Biden to send weapons to Ukraine free of charge while technically requiring payment at a […]
Above photo: In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, airmen and civilians from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron palletize ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine during a foreign military sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, on Jan. 21, 2022. (Mauricio Campino/U.S. Air Force / AP). It is Victory Day. As Ernest Hemingway said: Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid. The most important part of Vladimir Putin’s speech to the Victory Parade on the Red Square is the narrative that explains how the current war in Ukraine […]
Above Photo: “With this Ring”. Mr. Fish. The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election rout by running against the expected Supreme Court decision on abortion. This is depressingly all that is left of its political capital. The Democratic Party – which had 50 years to write Roe v Wade into law with Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama in full control of the White House and Congress at the inception of their presidencies – is banking its electoral strategy around the expected Supreme Court decision to lift the judicial prohibition on the ability of states to enact laws restricting or […]
Above Photo: A Ukrainian soldier watches a tractor plow a field in March near Kyiv, Ukraine. Because of the war, Ukrainian agriculture officials expect far fewer hectares of crops to be planted this year. Shutterstock. Even As The Failures Of Industrial Agriculture Become Obvious, U.S. Agribusiness Aims To Force It On The Rest Of The World. Even before the war in Ukraine, farmers across the U.S. were getting ready for higher prices on seed, fertilizer and crop chemicals. All winter, major farm media was warning farmers to book supplies early as prices would be high and supplies would be short. The war […]
Above Photo: Ken Mayers and Tarak Kauff on the Shannon Airport airfield. Ellen Davidson. Shannon Two Fined 10,000 Euros. Judge Patricia Ryan sent a clear message to protesters objecting to illegal U.S. military flights through Shannon Airport today by fining the Shannon Two 10,000 euros after they were convicted of interfering with the operation, management and safety of the facility. On May 3, the jury found Tarak Kauff and Kenneth Mayers not guilty on the two charges of criminal damage and trespass at Shannon airport, but guilty of the unusual charge of interfering with the airport operation, management or safety, which […]
On day 69 the war in Ukraine fell off the top of the news pages. The emotional outrage of the Democrats has now been redirected to the Supreme Court. This happened after Politico published a leaked draft of the majority opinion on constitutional protection of reproductive rights: The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. Chief Justice Roberts has confirmed the authenticity of the ‘leaked’ draft but added that […]
Above Photo: Russian president Boris Yeltsin and U.S. president Bill Clinton at the 1999 OSCE summit in Istanbul (Belga). The U.S. talks about “rule based order” because international law is not on its side. The 1999 OSCE Charter explains why the Biden administration would rather make up a new phrase out of whole cloth than live up to agreements it signed. In 1999, the United States and the 56 other participating states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) signed a charter in Istanbul that is another intentionally ignored key to understanding the war in Ukraine. The OSCE is the […]
Above photo: Russian nuclear weapons test on April 20, 2022. The apparent failed attempt at resolving the fighting by the international body coincided with the testing of a new nuclear weapons system by the Russian military. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres traveled on April 28 to the Russian Federation holding high-level talks with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The topic of the discussions centered on the two-months long Russian military intervention in Ukraine which has been fueled by the imposition of unprecedented sanctions by the United States and the European Union (EU) alongside the massive transferal of weapons […]
Here is a speech Vladimir Putin DID NOT make — at least in this specific language — to the Russian people just before initiating the special military operations in Ukraine: “It is my responsibility as the president to warn our citizens of secret, swift, and extraordinary buildup of US/NATO missiles — in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to Russia and the nations of our hemisphere, in violation of American assurances, and in defiance of treaties and our own policies — this sudden, clandestine decision to station strategic weapons on our borders — is a deliberately […]
Gonzalo Lira just delivered a decent recap of the war in Ukraine. Also, by attacking from the north and south, the Russians disrupted weapons supply chain from NATO. Had the RF only attacked in the east to prevent the AFU invasion of Donbas, there would have been an open corridor for resupply from the West. Threatening Kiev stopped that. So the main AFU army was left stranded in east Ukraine, with the rest of the Ukr. forces isolated and pinned down—with no easy resupply from the West. The RF then went about hitting AFU command/control and resupply links, further isolating and […]
Military service in the U.S. and the U.K. promised more than it ever delivered for many post-9/11volunteers. As sociologist and Vietnam vet Jerry Lembcke observes, “this generation of veterans went off to Iraq and Afghanistan with more hoopla than any generation since World War II. But a lot of them, particularly the men, came back deflated and disappointed with the experience they had. It did not live up to the mythology of what war is supposed to be, because there is no glory in these inglorious wars.” Adding insult to moral injury, hundreds of thousands of modern-day veterans developed long-term medical […]
Above Photo: Yemeni internally displaced children, who fled homes escaping conflict, bring water to their shelters at a displaced persons camp on the outskirts of Sana’a, on March 25, 2022 in Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud / Getty Images). Congress Needs To Pass A War Powers Resolution To End U.S. Complicity In The Chaos And Suffering In Yemen. More than seven years after the first airstrikes were launched on Yemen by the U.S.-supported Saudi-UAE coalition, a two-month truce with Yemen’s Ansar Allah (also referred to as Houthis) was announced at the beginning of this month. This UN-mediated truce comes after weeks of negotiations in Oman and […]
Journalist Peter Oborne joins Chris Hedges to discuss how this bifurcation of the world into ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ victims obliterates nuance and ambiguity, and is a key component of propaganda, especially in war. 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. This bifurcation of the world into worthy and unworthy victims is a key component of propaganda, especially in war. In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, award-winning journalist Peter Oborne joins Chris Hedges to examine […]
The war in Ukraine rages on, and the war mentality, promoted by propaganda on all sides, generates ever more devotion to keeping it going, even escalating it, even considering repeating it in Finland or elsewhere based on having “learned” precisely the wrong “lesson.” The bodies pile up. The threat of famine looms over many countries. The risk of nuclear apocalypse grows. The impediments to positive action for the climate are strengthened. Militarization expands. We desperately need a global call for a ceasefire and serious negotiations — meaning negotiations that will partially please and displease all sides but end the horror of war, […]
Above Photo: This file photo taken on June 12, 2019 shows an F-35 fighter jet flying over the White House in Washington. D.C. (Baradat / AFP). Friday gathering in Ottawa will be part of what is being called the Global Mobilization to Stop Lockheed Martin, manufacturer of the F-35. Members of the Ottawa Peace Council will on Friday head to the Lockheed Martin Canada headquarters on O’Connor Street to protest the Liberal government’s decision to purchase that company’s F-35 stealth fighter. The gathering is part of what is being called the Global Mobilization to Stop Lockheed Martin, a series of at […]
In follow up to a two-hour webinar hosted by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) with Scott Ritter, a former weapons inspector who blew the whistle on the lack of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq, Clearing the FOG continues the conversation on Ukraine. Ritter delves into how Nazis went from being a fringe group in Ukraine to being mainstreamed and treated as heroes. He explains the ways the conflict in Ukraine has ended the United States’ era of being a sole dominant global power and has exposed the weaknesses of both the US and NATO militaries. Ritter states that […]
Above Photo: George H. W. Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images). U.S. presidents and their NATO counterparts have committed war crimes all over the world. But they exempt themselves from prosecution, and use corporate media to act as their personal advocates. Only the little people end up at the Hague. The US State-Department-sponsored media apparatus is declaring that there were war crimes committed by Russian troops as they left the town of Bucha, just west of Kyiv. Soon After the Ukrainian army retook the town, there were published reports of bodies […]
Above Photo: PRIMICIAS. U.S. liberals are the worst perpetrators of Russophobic behavior. They are most likely to follow the dictates of corporate media and the democratic party and proudly take part in discriminatory acts. But foolish bans of anything Russian are just the most visible indication that war propaganda is at the root of the hysteria. The city of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts prohibit discrimination based upon race, color, gender, disability, religion, and national origin. Such discrimination is prohibited by most cities, states, and the federal government as well. But one wouldn’t know that due to a plethora of […]
Above Photo: April 7, 2021: An honor guard in Ukraine during a visit by a NATO military committee. (NATO). There is dominant propaganda that seems to suggest war can be conducted in a clean and orderly way and that civilian deaths are always exceptional. The war in Ukraine resuscitated a certain dangerous fascination for war. Notions such as patriotism, democratic values, “the right side of history,” or a new fight for freedom are mobilized as imperatives for everyone to take a side in this war. It is not surprising then that a large number of so-called foreign fighters are willing to go to Ukraine to join one […]
The war in the Ukraine continues but the propaganda hysteria around it seems to have calmed down a bit as reality is setting in. This gives room from more sane voices to be heard by the public. I will start with the Russian ones. The Russian ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, was interviewed by Newsweek. He explained Russia’s political and judicial reasoning behind the war: “The special operation in Ukraine is the result of the unwillingness of the Kiev regime to stop the genocide of Russians by fulfilling its obligations under the international commitments,” Antonov told Newsweek. “The desire of the […]
Above Photo: Whores of War. (Mr. Fish). 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. The same cabal of warmongering pundits, foreign policy specialists and government officials, year after year, debacle after debacle, smugly dodge responsibility for the military fiascos they orchestrate. They are protean, shifting adroitly with the political winds, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons to liberal interventionists. Pseudo intellectuals, […]
Above Photo: Members of the Ukrainian Military Forces move U.S.-made FIM-92 Stinger missiles and the other military assistance at Boryspil Airport in Kyiv on February 13, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP Via Getty Images) Arms Companies Are Exploiting Russia’s Invasion To Push A Military Spending Frenzy. Since the pandemic began in early 2020, the weapons industry has argued that shutdowns and supply chain disruptions have put the “defense industrial base” in peril, compromising the national security and military “readiness” of the United States. Now, that same industry is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and NATO’s subsequent military buildup to double down on the argument, demanding […]
There is something you aren’t being told about the current cold war between the US and Russia that’s icier than a witch’s tit after seeing the naked body of the guy who ate Russell Crowe. And of course, the new cold war also involves a proxy war in Ukraine where Western media is telling us to root for a Jew and for the Nazis? As an anti-imperialist Jew myself, can’t I be opposed to both the Russian invasion and opposed to Nazis? Is that not allowed, really? This is worse than when The Price is Right showcase showdown forced me to […]
It’s about restoring US imperial hegemony over Europe, breaking Russia as a global challenger to the US, and a dress rehearsal for then going after China. Here is my analysis of what’s going on in Ukraine after one month. It may not prove acceptable to many. Certainly not liberals, the ruling elite in Washington, or even some left liberal and socialist left. But I’ve always spoken my mind and will continue to do so, with no allegiances to any political forces or organizations. So here goes: First, this is a proxy war engineered by US neocons and political elites, that has […]
Above Photo: Nuremberg Trials. 1st row: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Heß, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel. 2nd row: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel. (Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality / Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S) Scott Ritter, in part one of a two-part series, lays out international law regarding the crime of aggression and how it relates to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes […]
Above photo: The Nation: Hiroshima – It’s time to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons. The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia under a spotlight, highlighting how the United States and its allies have expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, backed a coup and now a proxy war in Ukraine, imposed waves of economic sanctions, and launched a debilitating trillion-dollar arms race. The explicit goal is to pressure, weaken and ultimately eliminate Russia, or a Russia-China partnership, as a strategic competitor to U.S. imperial power. The United States and NATO have used similar forms of force […]
Above Photo: President Biden departs Brussels en route to Poland early Friday morning. (White House) In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue. The U.S. got its war in Ukraine. Without it, Washington could not attempt to destroy Russia’s economy, orchestrate worldwide condemnation and lead an insurgency to bleed Russia, all part of an attempt to bring down its government. Joe Biden has now left no doubt that it’s true. The president of the United States has confirmed what Consortium News and others have been reporting since […]
Some Likely Longterm Effects Of The War In Ukraine March 27, 2022 Some Likely Longterm Effects Of The War In Ukraine2022-03-272022-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220327-7.jpg200px200px Above Photo: International Week of Anti-Imperialist Struggle. What are the biggest game-changers of the Ukraine war so far? I see three:1) The freezing of Russia’s central bank assets2) China and India’s rapprochement3) The cementation of the EU’s vassalage to the U.S. Small 🧵 — Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) March 26, 2022 I agree with these but would add that it is also likely to lead to 4) the long term demise of NATO and 5) a shrinking role for the U.S. […]
Ukraine: War And The Challenge Of Human Rights In The US And Beyond By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. March 27, 2022 Ukraine: War And The Challenge Of Human Rights In The US And Beyond2022-03-272022-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220327-6.jpg200px200px Above Photo: New York City protest, 2017. Reuters. Rally outside home of Conservative Richard Drax demands reparations for 200 years of trade in Barbados. Images of burnt flesh from napalm bombs, wounded and dead soldiers, scenes of U.S. soldiers burning the simple huts of Vietnamese villages, eventually turned the public against the war in Vietnam and produced the dreaded affliction, from the ruling class point of […]
Propaganda Does Not Change The War – The Ukraine Is Still Losing – Updated March 26, 2022 Propaganda Does Not Change The War – The Ukraine Is Still Losing – Updated2022-03-262022-03-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220326-7-e1648333453511.jpg200px200px NOTE: Popular Resistance is providing updates on the status of the conflict in Ukraine that you won’t find in the corporate media. It is important to be aware of what is happening to form our resistance to it. The US and NATO countries must cease sending weapons to Ukraine and stoking the conflict, which is bringing devastation and suffering to Ukrainian people. – MF It is likely the most realistic […]
BBC Correspondent-Fixer Shaping Ukraine War Coverage Is PR Operative Involved In “War-Messaging Tool” By Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. March 26, 2022 BBC Correspondent-Fixer Shaping Ukraine War Coverage Is PR Operative Involved In “War-Messaging Tool”2022-03-262022-03-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220326-8.jpg200px200px BBC Reports On The Suspicious Destruction Of A Theater In The Ukrainian City Of Mariupol Were Co-Authored By A Ukrainian PR Agent Tied To A Firm At The Forefront Of Her Country’s Information Warfare Efforts. Before serving as a fixer and reporter for the BBC in Ukraine, Orysia Khimiak handled PR for a start-up called Reface which created what the Washington Post called a “reality distorting app” […]
Ukraine’s Propaganda War: International PR Firms, DC Lobbyists And CIA Cutouts By Dan Cohen, Mintpress News. March 24, 2022 Ukraine’s Propaganda War: International PR Firms, DC Lobbyists And CIA Cutouts2022-03-242022-03-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220324.webp200px200px Dan Cohen Reveals The Network Of Foreign Strategists, Washington DC Lobbyists, And Intelligence-Linked Media Outlets Behind Ukraine’s Public Relations Blitz. Washington D.C. – Since the Russian offensive inside Ukraine commenced on February 24, the Ukrainian military has cultivated the image of a plucky little army standing up to the Russian Goliath. To bolster the perception of Ukrainian military mettle, Kiev has churned out a steady stream of sophisticated propaganda aimed at stirring […]
Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs To Stave Off War With Russia By Joe Lauria, Consortium News. March 24, 2022 Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs To Stave Off War With Russia2022-03-242022-03-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220324-8.jpg200px200px Above Photo: The Pentagon. Two leaked stories from the Pentagon have exposed the lies of mainstream media about how Russia is conducting the Ukraine war in a bid to counter propaganda intended to get NATO into the conflict. The Pentagon is engaged in a consequential battle with the U.S. State Department and the Congress to prevent a direct military confrontation with Russia, which could unleash the most unimaginable horror of war. President Joe […]
Brutal War On Yemen: Dire Hunger Crisis Teetering On The Edge Of Catastrophe By Baher Kamal, Inter Press Service News Agency. March 22, 2022 Brutal War On Yemen: Dire Hunger Crisis Teetering On The Edge Of Catastrophe2022-03-222022-03-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220322-3.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Across Yemen, 2.2 million children are acutely malnourished, including nearly more than half a million children facing severe acute malnutrition, a life-threatening condition, according to new IPC report. United Nations. Yemen’s already dire hunger crisis is teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe, with 17.4 million people now in need of food assistance and a growing portion of the population coping with […]
Washington Should Think Twice Before Launching A New Cold War By William D. Hartung, Nick Cleveland-Stout, And Taylor Giorno, Tom Dispatch. March 22, 2022 Washington Should Think Twice Before Launching A New Cold War2022-03-222022-03-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220322-4-e1647975377180.jpg200px200px A History Lesson For Our Desperate Moment. A growing chorus of pundits and policymakers has suggested that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks the beginning of a new Cold War. If so, that means trillions of additional dollars for the Pentagon in the years to come coupled with a more aggressive military posture in every corner of the world. Before this country succumbs to calls for a return to Cold War-style Pentagon spending, it’s important […]
Bits Of Interest From The War In Ukraine March 21, 2022 Bits Of Interest From The War In Ukraine2022-03-212022-03-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220321-3.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Knesset lawmakers on March 20, 2022. Screen capture: YouTube. Below are various bits of interest from the war in Ukraine. Zelensky says ‘western’ leaders said no to Ukrainian NATO membership, but rejected to do so publicly. U.S. supported ‘activist’ commits publicly to war crimes. CNN promotes leader of neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. Arch Zionists are pissed off by Zelensky’s holocaust revisionism. Destroyed Kiev shopping mall was used as weapon and ammunition depot. Despite […]
Us Recklessly Eyes China As Target In Economic War By Joe Lauria, Consortium News. March 21, 2022 Us Recklessly Eyes China As Target In Economic War2022-03-212022-03-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220321-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Biden-Xi video summit on Friday. (White House). Western officials say Russia is asking China for military help — denied by Beijing — in what is clearly an effort to build a case to include China in its economic war against Moscow. The United States is setting up China as a second target of its intense economic war against Russia in what could have cataclysmic effects on the world economy, including the West. The U.S. […]
Lockheed And Raytheon – Today’s ‘Masters Of War’ By Betsey Piette, Workers World. March 19, 2022 Lockheed And Raytheon – Today’s ‘Masters Of War’2022-03-192022-03-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220319-4.jpg200px200px Above Photo: In this image taken from footage provided by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service, a Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with US Javelin missiles during military exercises in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. U(krainian Defense Ministry Press Service / AP). Come, you masters of war; You that build the big guns; You that build the death planes; You that build all the bombs; You that hide behind walls; You that hide behind desks; […]
US Threatens Nuclear War Or Sanctions By Sara Flounders, Workers World. March 18, 2022 US Threatens Nuclear War Or Sanctions2022-03-182022-03-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220318-1.png200px200px Above Photo: People line up to withdraw U.S. dollars and euros from an ATM in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 25. A seismic shift is sending shock waves through the global economy. The well-established capitalist disorder, dominated by U.S. imperialism and in place since World War II, is on shaky ground. Extreme economic sanctions imposed on Russia are dragging the whole world into a war that started long before the Russian intervention in Ukraine on Feb. 24. A big calculation is […]
Former Top Pentagon Advisor Col. Doug Macgregor On Russia-Ukraine War By Max Blumenthal And Aaron Maté, The Grayzone. March 16, 2022 Former Top Pentagon Advisor Col. Doug Macgregor On Russia-Ukraine War2022-03-162022-03-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220316-6.jpg200px200px Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor joins Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate for a candid, live discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war and his time in the Trump administration when an Afghan withdrawal was sabotaged and conflict with Iran and Syria continued. Source link
President Biden: De-Escalate In Ukraine Or Risk Nuclear War! By Gerry Condon, Popular Resistance. March 14, 2022 President Biden: De-Escalate In Ukraine Or Risk Nuclear War!2022-03-142022-03-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/nuclear-weapons-e1647300725429.jpg200px200px Above photo: US Air Force/Flickr. “The first casualty of war is truth.” This simple yet profound statement is attributed to many, including Hiram Johnson in a speech in the U.S. Senate in 1918, during the “war to end all wars.” Hiram Johnson was a progressive Republican who had been elected to the Senate from California that very year. He remained in the Senate until he died of old age on August 6, 1945, the day […]
Congress Screws American Workers To Escalate War On Russia By Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. March 13, 2022 Congress Screws American Workers To Escalate War On Russia2022-03-132022-03-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220313-7.jpg200px200px As Gas Prices And Inflation Surge, Max Blumenthal Questions Members Of Congress On The Economic Toll American Workers Face From Escalating Sanctions On Russia, And On Their Support For Escalating The War In Ukraine. On March 8, as the Russian military operation inside Ukraine expanded, President Joseph Biden announced a total ban on Russian oil to the United States, sending oil prices to record highs. “Today I am announcing that the United States is […]
You Are Also a Victim of War like Us By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. March 11, 2022 You Are Also a Victim of War like Us2022-03-112022-03-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220311-11.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Daniela Edburg (Mexico), Atomic Picnic, 2007. On 27 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin met the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov and the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. ‘The top officials of the leading NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] countries have made aggressive statements against our country’, Putin said. Therefore, he told his top officials ‘to transfer the deterrence forces of the Russian army […]
US Sanctions: An Act Of War Against Workers By G. Dunkel, Workers World. March 10, 2022 US Sanctions: An Act Of War Against Workers2022-03-102022-03-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220310-3.jpg200px200px Above Photo: An exterior view shows Russia’s Central Bank headquarters in Moscow, Russia March 29, 2021. Maxim Shemetov / Reuters. Mass media in the United States and throughout the countries of Western Europe are exhaustively and intensely depicting the suffering of the Ukrainian people as Ukraine confronts the Russian army. It is the U.S. and its NATO proxy who have now broadened the war being fought in Ukraine. What the media is not covering is the impact […]
Are We Heading Toward WWIII & Nuclear War? By Alice Slater, In Depth News. March 9, 2022 Are We Heading Toward WWIII & Nuclear War?2022-03-092022-03-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220309-7.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Newslead India. New York – It has become unbearable to observe the western media, in the grip of corrupt military contractors, wielding their undue influence on the unknowing victims of the media “news” reports as they publicly and shamelessly celebrate their enormous profits this year from the billions of dollars in weapons they are selling to keep the Ukraine war going. The drumbeat of demonization and excoriation of Putin by the western media, as […]
The Ukraine War And The ‘Good’ Refugee By Binoy Kampmark, Counter Punch. March 8, 2022 The Ukraine War And The ‘Good’ Refugee2022-03-082022-03-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220308-2.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Refugees who are foreign nationals, especially those from the Middle East, Asia and Africa are being discriminated against at the borders. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue. “These people are not people we are used to… these people are Europeans.” – Kiril Petkov, Bulgarian Prime Minister, Associated Press, March 1, 2022 In the history of accepting refugees, countries have shown more than an erratic streak. Universal human characteristics have often been overlooked in favor of the particular: race, cultural habits, religion. […]
The Crisis In Ukraine Is A Planetary Crisis Provoked By The U.S. That Threatens Nuclear War By Oliver Boyd-barrett, Covert Action Magazine. March 8, 2022 The Crisis In Ukraine Is A Planetary Crisis Provoked By The U.S. That Threatens Nuclear War2022-03-082022-03-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220308-5-e1646769869105.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Nypost.com. Let us begin a conversation in response to what currently qualifies as the most profound question, the one that needs most urgently to be addressed if we are to have any chance of understanding what we conveniently refer to as the “Ukraine crisis.” This is, more accurately, a planetary crisis—close in magnitude to the near-certainty of species […]
A Proposed Solution To The Ukraine War By Greg Mello, Consortium News. March 7, 2022 A Proposed Solution To The Ukraine War2022-03-072022-03-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220307-8.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Fogener Haus / Wikimedia Commons. An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires security for others, says the Los Alamos Study Group. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, what was a regional conflict has become a global hybrid war with ever-greater stakes, not least the risk of nuclear war. Perhaps the greatest danger lies in the […]
Would A “Cold” War Be The Best News Around? By Michael Klare, Tom’s Dispatch. March 7, 2022 Would A “Cold” War Be The Best News Around?2022-03-072022-03-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220307-3.jpg200px200px Ukraine, Taiwan, And Other Flashpoints In A New Age Of Geopolitics. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been widely described as the beginning of a new cold war, much like the old one in both its cast of characters and ideological nature. “In the contest between democracy and autocracy, between sovereignty and subjugation, make no mistake — freedom will prevail,” President Biden asserted in a televised address to the nation the day Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. But […]
How Ukraine’s Jewish President Zelensky Made Peace With Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries On Front Lines Of War With Russia By Alexander Rubinstein And Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. March 5, 2022 How Ukraine’s Jewish President Zelensky Made Peace With Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries On Front Lines Of War With Russia2022-03-052022-03-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220305.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Zelensky awards Right Sector commander Dmytro Kotsyubaylo the “Hero of Ukraine” award. While Western Media Deploys Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewish Heritage To Refute Accusations Of Nazi Influence In Ukraine, The President Has Ceded To Neo-Nazi Forces And Now Depends On Them As Front Line Fighters. Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine […]
Above Photo: Major existing and planned natural gas pipelines supplying Russian gas to Europe. Samuel Bailey. It may be premature somewhat to consider economic consequences of the Ukraine war with the Russian invasion still less than a week old. However, certain outlines of where things are going are nonetheless possible. With that caveat, the following represent some early considerations of the likely—in some cases already occurring—economic consequences of the war for Russia, European Union, and the USA. Economic Consequences for Russia The immediate effect on the Russian economy in the initial days was a sharp fall in its stock and financial […]
Most nations have some form of state media. These days, it’s pretty easy for Americans to access any number of foreign state media outlets, and many of them have journalists covering US affairs. Some of those journalists must register as “foreign agents” with the US government. But others don’t have to—a distinction that has more to do with geopolitics than with journalism. The Trump administration mandated “five Chinese state-run media organizations to register their personnel and property with the US government”: Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International and the parent companies of the China Daily and People’s Daily newspapers (Politico, 2/18/20). The administration also “limited to […]
On Feb. 24, Clearing the FOG spoke at length with Dr. Vladimir Kozin, a Russian military and global security expert. That happened to be the day that Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine. Dr. Kozin explains the goals of the mission and the events that led to it. He describes the eight year assault on ethnic Russians living in Eastern Ukraine that caused more than 14,000 deaths. He also describes how the current conflict can be resolved and the risk of a major, and possibly nuclear war, if a diplomatic solution is not achieved. March 1 to 7 is […]
Above Photo: Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Emilio Morenatti / AP Photo. Russia was baited into war but that does not absolve its criminal act of aggression. Preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime. It does not matter if the war is launched on the basis of lies and fabrications, as was the case in Iraq, or because of the breaking of a series of agreements with Russia, including the promise by Washington not to extend NATO beyond the borders of a unified Germany, […]
Historian Anne Morelli has summarized Arthur Ponsonby’s classic book Falsehood in War-Time as this: We do not want war. The opposite party alone is guilty of war. The enemy is inherently evil and resembles the devil. We defend a noble cause, not our own interests. The enemy commits atrocities on purpose; our mishaps are involuntary. The enemy uses forbidden weapons. We suffer small losses, those of the enemy are enormous. Recognized artists and intellectuals back our cause. Our cause is sacred. All who doubt our propaganda are traitors. h/t Bernd Neuner As an example I offer you yesterday’s Policy statement by Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of […]
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses America’s inner and outer wars and its nexus with capitalism and empire with Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University Nikhil Pal Singh. The internal violence in the United States, militarized police, and the largest prison system in the world, along with America’s endemic racism, are mirrored in the foreign wars that have been fought almost continuously by the United States since the end of the 19th century. These inner and outer wars, argues historian Nikhil Pal Singh, are intimately connected. The gunning down of unarmed black people in […]
In 2015 and 2017, the Watchdog Media Institute released a 22-part video series on Maidan and Kiev’s war on ethnic Russians. Watch the summary 25-minute film and the entire series here. Produced and presented by the Watchdog Media Institute, here is a chronological archive of events in Ukraine from the beginning of the Euromaidan protests in November 2013 to the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014. Hundreds of various sources are presented without commentary and in context, allowing the viewer to adequately interpret the information themselves. Research & Editing by: Chris Nolan. Subtitles by: Angelina Siard & Ollie Richardson. This video series presents an invaluable background to the beginnings of the war in Ukraine […]
Above Photo: HM Prison Belmarsh in South East London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being held. Hollie Adams / AFP via Getty Images. The crimes of the War on Terror are an assault on justice and democracy across the planet. The Belmarsh Tribunal, inspired by the Vietnam War tribunals organized by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, is demanding accountability for those crimes. In November 2019, I arrived at the gates of Her Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh in South East London. Since 2001, the UK government has run Belmarsh as the “British Guantanamo Bay,” detaining prisoners without charge on trial on the […]
Above Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with service members of the country’s armed forces at combat positions in the Donetsk region, Feb. 17, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office / AP). Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain. On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin, the currency of the age. In 1964, McLuhan famously declared, “The medium is the message.” The lie is the […]
Above photo: The aftermath of the Talbot St. bomb. Tom Lawlor. In the early hours of Thursday morning, in what will perhaps finally result in the COVID-19 mainstream media narrative being permanently banished from the headlines, almost nine years of Western provocations via its Eastern European proxy state Ukraine would culminate in Russia launching a military intervention into its Western neighbour – with attempts to resolve the situation peacefully by Moscow over the past several months ultimately proving fruitless due to Kiev failing to implement its side of the Minsk Agreements, which would see a federalisation solution in which the breakaway […]
Above Photo: Svyatoslav, 6, plays with his tablet in a public basement used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russia has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending troops and tanks from multiple directions in a move that could rewrite the world’s geopolitical landscape. Emilio Morenatti / AP Photo. After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity […]
March 1 to 7: International Week of Action to Stop the War with Russia The conflict in Ukraine has escalated to a dangerous level between two nuclear armed states. The United States and its allies continue to portray the current situation as one of Russian aggression without acknowledging that US-backed Ukrainian forces are attacking the Eastern region of the country and killing citizens of Russian ethnicity. This current escalation is a serious threat to world peace and requires a unified and rapid response by anti-war organizations from around the globe to stop a major war. To that end, we, the undersigned […]
Above Photo: Unidentified gunmen on patrol at Simferopol Airport in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. The AK-74 carried by the rifleman on the right does not have a magazine inserted. (Elizabeth Arrott / VOA – Public Domain). The threat of war is difficult to beat when it comes to mending or enhancing a damaged reputation. President Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, both derided as ineffective in domestic policy only a few weeks ago, are now reborn as statesmen capable of guiding their countries through the minefield of Eastern European politics. The American and British intelligence services seldom got things right during the Iraq, Libyan and […]
Above Photo: Sina Weibo screenshot of Chinese volunteer welcoming Tessa Maud and U.S. athletes to China Global Times. Tessa Maud And Aaron Blunk Didn’t Need To Use Many Words To Show Us That The U.S. Media Has China All Wrong. Few events have been more politicized than the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. New cold warriors and atrocity propagandists led by the United States did everything in their power to generate popular support for a full boycott of the Games. NED-backed organizations formed a coalition for the cause, the corporate media engaged in a full-scale “China bad” propaganda blitz, and the political […]
Ukraine masses its troops on the borders of Donbass, and intensifies its bombardments High caliber artillery fire, though prohibited in the contact zone, is intensifying against the Donbass. Six 120mm shells hit the village of Zhelobok, seven of 122mm hit the village of Rayevka, then ten against Vesyola Gorka. Shelling was also carried out from the Kyiv-controlled city of Novotoshkivske, against Lugoanskoe, Krimsoe and Sokolniki, with more than 20 bombs dropped. On February 17, 17 bombing operations had been committed against the Donbass. In Donetsk, on the evening of February 18, 2022, the car of the head of a DPR militia […]
Above Photo: EFE via Folhapress. The political landscape in Peru is pretty complicated these days. The country has been living a political crisis for years due to the desire of a small minority to control the country both economically and politically. From 2016 until today, five people have occupied the presidential chair. All of them have faced tremendous resistance from Congress, which impeached two of them and threatened to do it with the other two, including the current President Pedro Castillo. The last remarkable event of these tireless attempts by Congress to impeach Castillo was unveiled by the weekly “Hildebrandt en sus […]
Aaron Mate And Max Blumenthal Speak With Deputy Permanent Representative Of Russia To The UN Dmitri Polyanskiy On Escalated Tensions On The Russian-Ukraine Border, US Accusations Of An Imminent Russian Invasion, And The Context Missing From A US Media That Refuses To Interview Russian Officials. The post Russian UN Ambassador Responds To US ‘War Propaganda’ appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. Source link
‘Inaction Speaks Louder Than Words.’ On Friday, February 11th antiwar groups United Against War and Militarism, Veterans for Peace, and Massachusetts Peace Action protested at Elizabeth Warren’s office in Boston to demand that she invoke a War Powers Resolution to end US involvement in the nearly 7 year-long proxy war in Yemen. While Warren has expressed nominal opposition to US involvement and voted for a War Powers Resolution while Trump was in office, she has refused to take any concrete action since Biden was elected. All the while, the US and regional and global powers continue to treat Yemen as a battleground […]
Above Photo: Getty Images The upcoming Belmarsh Tribunal in New York coincides with with the date of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by the US in occupied parts of Cuba. The Progressive International (PI), in collaboration with several like minded organizations, will organize the second Belmarsh Tribunal in New York on February 25. It announced the decision in a press release on February 14. The Tribunal seeks to hold the US government accountable for its war crimes in the two decades of the so-called war on terror and also push for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s release. The first […]
China expert Carl Zha discusses the new cold war. With a diplomatic boycott by Western governments, corporate media propaganda has demonized China over the 2022 Winter Olympics. Britain’s major newspaper the Financial Times openly declared, “Beijing Winter Olympics: the new front line in the US-China cold war.” China expert Carl Zha joins Multipolarista to pick apart the propaganda and explain what’s really happening. Zha discusses the accusations that China is supposedly committing “genocide” against the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang – an allegation that even the US State Department’s own lawyers admit is not true. And he addresses the controversy around […]
Above Photo: June 20, 2011: Pro-Assad demonstration in Latakia, Syria. (Sammy.aw, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons) Ten years after 9/11 the U.S. and Middle East allies weaponized jihadist groups in Syria, writes Andrew Hammond, and the result was an utter disaster. But don’t expect any self-reflection from the cheerleaders. The recent rush of news reports about Balkan, Middle East and East European states scrambling to reestablish ties with Damascus would appear to signal the effective collapse of the decade-long Western policy of war, sanctions and isolation to end the rule of Bashar al-Assad’s Baath regime in Syria. Syria’s southern neighbor Jordan […]
Clearing the FOG provides excerpts from the speakers at the National Online Rally to stop war with Russia over Ukraine that was held on Feb. 5 as part of the national actions that took place in about 70 cities in Hawaii and coast to coast. The rally and actions were organized based on a unified call to action issued by 12 national and international antiwar organizations, which was endorsed by more than 200 more organizations. The demands include stopping the war with Russia, stopping the supply of weapons to Nazis in Ukraine, ending NATO, de-escalating the threat of nuclear war and […]
Above Photo: A general view of a camp where some families make a living from begging, and others consider selling their children due to poverty in Qala-E-Naw, Afghanistan, on Oct. 28, 2021. (Ahmad Seddiqi / Anadolu Agency/Getty Images). Economic sanctions have, in recent years, become one of the most important tools of U.S. foreign policy. There are currently more than 20 countries subjected to various sanctions from the U.S. government. But if more Americans knew how many innocent civilians actually die as a result of these sanctions, would the worst of them be permitted? We may be about to find out […]
Above Photo: Democratic representative from Georgia, John Lewis, speaks as the Congressional Black Caucus announced its endorsement for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US election. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP/Getty Images). What passes for leadership is always a joke played upon Black people. The high water mark of the CBC being the “conscience of the congress” is long gone. No one can look to them on the issue of Ukraine or anything else. The people must restore the historical Black radical consensus as a matter of survival. What should Black people think about the United States manufactured crisis in Ukraine? There are […]
Above Photo: Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya. Al Mayadeen. A UN Security Council meeting was called to discuss the situation in eastern Europe where tensions are rising amid a stand off between NATO and Russia On Monday, January 31, at a UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting called to discuss the situation in Ukraine, the Russian envoy to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, accused the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of whipping up war hysteria in eastern Europe. Nebenzya was responding to the US permanent representative at the UN, Linda Thomas Greenfield, who reiterated her country’s claims […]
Above photo: National Geographic/cc. And How One Man Did. These are dark days for both our nation and the world. Climate change is wreaking havoc everywhere, a global pandemic continues its onslaught, our nation’s experiment in democracy is threatened by a slow-motion insurrection and, to top it all off, our nation has taken the lead in pushing Russia toward a war over Ukraine that is capable of going off the rails into a full-scale nuclear war (and that is not hyperbole!). At least four or five U.S. OHIO Class “Trident” ballistic missile submarines are currently at sea on “hard alert” in […]
Above Photo: Zelensky at his 2019 inauguration. Mykhaylo Markiv / Presidential Administration of Ukraine. Disagreement between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents and cautiousness by Germany and France, seems to indicate only the U.S. and U.K. are keen for war with Russia. The telephone call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenensky on Thursday was said to have not “gone well,” according to a senior Ukrainian official. The official said Zelensky urged Biden to “calm down the messaging” on the situation in Ukraine and that Ukrainian intelligence did not see a Russian threat the same way the U.S. did, […]
Above Photo: Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin summit meeting. As the U.S. threatens endless war with Russia over Ukraine, confidence in China surges. This moment of history will be remembered for the massive shift in global relations currently underway. On one side stands the forces of peace and multipolarity led by China, Russia, and their allies in the Global South. On the other is the forces of empire and conquest spearheaded by the U.S. and its allies. The conflict between these two “camps” is about much more than competing visions for planetary development. World politics have transitioned from a war between […]
Above photo: Anti-war protesters gather in front of the White House on Jan. 27 to demonstrate against escalating tensions with Russia. Win McNamee/Getty Images. TAKE ACTION: Endorse the Call to Action by submitting the name of your organization. Click here to endorse. Hold a visibility action. Send photos of your action to info@popularresistance.org so they can be shared at the online rally. Register for the National Rally to be held on Saturday, Feb. 5 at 12:00 noon Eastern time. Click here to register. You can find and share the registration using bit.ly/StopWarWithRussia. Sign and share this petition to President Biden and […]
Journalists Benjamin Norton And Alan MacLeod Join Mnar Adley To Discuss How The Mainstream Media Spent The Last Week Beating Drums Of War With Russia While Ignoring A New Deadly US-Backed Saudi Onslaught In Yemen. Journalists Benjamin Norton and Alan MacLeod join Mnar Adley to discuss how the mainstream media spent the last week beating drums of war with Russia over Ukraine with headlines and talking heads funded and sponsored by Lockheed Martin and NATO. Meanwhile, there wasn’t a single article covering how the US-Saudi-UAE coalition cut off the internet to Yemen for several days while dropping hundreds of bombs on civilians resulting in hundreds dead and over […]
Above Photo: Anti-Putin Propaganda. The 2014 U.S. sponsored coup against the elected government of Ukraine must be the starting point for any discussion of the current crisis. That crisis has been manufactured by Joe Biden, who was the Obama administration point person in using Ukraine as a means of destabilizing Russia. The corporate media always carry water for the state, and they are never more dangerous than when the nation is on a war footing. Right now the United States government is sending weapons to Ukraine. One wouldn’t know that because of constant references to “lethal aid.” The euphemisms and subterfuge […]
Above Photo: Protest at the White House. Morgan Artyukhina. The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) along with the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, Maryland Peace Action, Popular Resistance, and many other organizations will gather in Washington today at noon in front of the White House as part of an emergency mobilization of anti-war activists to express opposition to the unnecessary and extremely dangerous possibility of war in Ukraine. “Negotiate, don’t escalate” pic.twitter.com/eTT3J6IyOB — Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) January 27, 2022 “No war with Russia, disband NATO!” pic.twitter.com/Om9C1WbgY6 — Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) January 27, 2022 Gavin & Marco were part of an unrelated #ERANow protest […]
Above Photo: The Pentagon has put 8,500 troops on high alert as the U.S. escalates tensions with Russia over Ukraine. (Stefani Reynolds / The New York Times). The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) along with the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, Maryland Peace Action, Popular Resistance, and many other organizations will gather in Washington today at noon in front of the White House as part of an emergency mobilization of anti-war activists to express opposition to the unnecessary and extremely dangerous possibility of war in Ukraine. With a 39% job approval rating, more deaths from covid than during the Trump administration, and a […]
Above photo: U.S. soldiers leave a plane as they arrive from Afghanistan at the Manas air base. AFP. We’ve seen this before. The U.S. creates a situation, digs in its heels and makes ultimatums—and tens of thousands die. I resigned from the U.S. government in 2003 in opposition to another war-President Bush’s war on Iraq in which followed that war playbook. We’ve seen it in Afghanistan and Iraq and now it may be over Ukraine or Taiwan, and oh yes, let’s not forget multiple missile tests from North Korea, ISIS fighters rioting and escaping from prisons in Syria, the millions in […]
Above Photo: Protest against NATO Summit in Chicago, May 2012. U.S. imperialism is playing with fire in Eastern Europe. U.S. officials are toying with the lives of millions of people in Europe, Asia and potentially the entire world with their unprecedented campaign of threats, provocations and war propaganda aimed at the Russian Federation. The Biden regime and corporate media are lying when they warn of an “imminent” Russian invasion of Ukraine. The real danger of invasion comes from the U.S.-supported, NATO-armed Ukrainian government against the peoples of the independent Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk on Russia’s Western border. Wall Street, […]
The US and UK are ramping up threats to Russia over Ukraine by sending more weapons, vowing more sanctions, and lodging evidence-free claims of a Russian plot to install a pro-Kremlin leader. But comments by Germany’s navy chief that Russia “deserves respect” — leading to his resignation — underscore that not everyone is on board with Washington and London’s war fever. Scholar and author Richard Sakwa discusses the latest in the Ukraine crisis. Source link
Above Photo: Macron leaving European Parliament last Wednesday. (European Parliament) The German admiral’s frank remarks contradict the war hysteria being drummed up by the U.S. and Britain, Joe Lauria reports. Vice-Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, the head of the German navy, has resigned after saying talk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine was “nonsense” and that Russia was merely seeking “respect” for its security concerns in Europe. “It is easy to give him the respect he really demands – and probably also deserves,” Schönbach told a meeting of a think tank in New Delhi on Friday. “My minister asked me what does Russia […]
It’s nonstop in the western media. The message – war with Russia is coming. An American friend of mine, now living in Russia, has two sons in the US Army. One of them said to him today, “your two sons are going to be fighting your beloved Russia.” So the troops are obviously being told to prepare for war. One of those sons, an Army Special Forces soldier has been sent to western Ukraine several times to train the Nazi death squads that have been brought into the Ukrainian Army since the US orchestrated coup d’état in 2014. Russia has repeatedly […]
Above Photo: Afghans protest the former U.S. embassy building demanding the release of Afghanistan’s frozen assets and resumption of international funding amid worsening economic conditions in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 21, 2021. theintercept.com. Over the past few months, U.S. lawmakers, the Afghan government, and the international community have called on Washington to stop strangling the Afghan economy as its people continue to suffer from a U.S.-created humanitarian crisis. On December 22nd, the Biden administration effectively rejected those calls, opting instead for half-measures that will do little to counter the effects of stringent economic sanctions imposed on the Taliban or to improve the material well-being of the Afghan […]
Above Photo: Grocery store workers cheer as they picket outside a King Soopers store after rejecting the latest contract offer from the chain that is owned by Kroger, Co., Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, in east Denver. The grocery store strike is the first in Denver since workers walked off their jobs in 1996. (AP Photo / David Zalubowski) Organized workers, often defying their timid union leadership, are on the march across the United States. There is one last hope for the United States. It does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the union organizing and strikes by workers […]
Red Lines Host Anya Parampil Speaks With Francisco R. Rodríguez, The Executive Of Oil For Venezuela, About A Study He Recently Published Which Analyzed The Impact Of US Sanctions On Venezuela’s Economy. Rodríguez shares data which prove sanctions have directly contributed to a major economic contraction in Venezuela, driven mainly by a significant drop in the country’s oil production as a result of the measures. Rodríguez also addresses common arguments made by individuals who seek to obscure the impact US sanctions have had on Venezuela’s economy. Read the study: https://sanctionsandsecurity.org/publications/sanctions-economic-statecraft-and-venezuelas-crisis/ The post ‘Smoking Gun’ Analysis: US Sanctions Produce ‘War Time’ Economy appeared […]
With the United States and Russia in a standoff over NATO expansion and Russian troop deployments along the Ukrainian border, US corporate media outlets are demanding that Washington escalate the risk of a broader war while misleading their audiences about important aspects of the conflict. Many in the commentariat called on the US to take steps that would increase the likelihood of war. In the New York Times (12/10/21), retired US Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman wrote that “the United States must support Ukraine by providing more extensive military assistance.” He argued that “the United States should consider an out-of-cycle, division-level military deployment […]
Col. Doug Macgregor, An Ex-Pentagon Advisor, On How The US War Lobby Fuels Conflict From Ukraine To Syria. Washington, DC, He Says, Is “Occupied Territory. It’s Occupied By Corporations, By Lobbies.” Douglas Macgregor, a retired US Army Colonel and former Pentagon senior advisor, analyzes the US-Russia standoff in Ukraine; the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan; Trump’s failure to act on 2016 campaign anti-interventionist rhetoric, only to surround himself with neocons; and the ongoing, overlooked US military occupation of Syria after the decade-long CIA dirty war. “The Military Industrial Congressional Complex,” Macgregor says, “seems to be more powerful than anyone […]
Terrorist Groups Have Doubled Since The Passage Of The 2001 AUMF. It began more than two decades ago. On September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush declared a “war on terror” and told a joint session of Congress (and the American people) that “the course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain.” If he meant a 20-year slide to defeat in Afghanistan, a proliferation of militant groups across the Greater Middle East and Africa, and a never-ending, world-spanning war that, at a minimum, has killed about 300 times the number of people murdered in America on 9/11, then give him credit. He was absolutely […]
Above photo: Publicity image from The Battle at Lake Changjin. To coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Communist Party, the powerful Chinese Central Propaganda Department commissioned a blockbuster film that depicts a US defeat in the Korean War. Under fire from US bombs, the heroic People’s Army fights a brutal ground battle and emerges victorious. Brave Chinese soldiers are caught in a hellish landscape as air attacks riddle the earth all around them. A villainous US Gen. Douglas MacArthur, shot Nazi-style from a low camera, shakes his fist and shouts into a microphone, “I believe we will […]
I’ve attended most of the major antiwar protests in Washington since 9/11. At a 2005 protest, a cop tried to whack me on the head with a wooden pole. At a 2007 protest, I snapped a picture showing George W. Bush swinging by the U.S. Capitol. But my favorite protest was a potent little ruckus that I almost missed. On a sunny late summer day in 2013, I ambled to downtown Washington to hike with a bunch of friendly folks in a jaunt starting on the National Mall and heading towards the World War Two Monument and points beyond. But the hike was vexed from the […]
Above Photo: Amphibious Landing Exercise In The Black Sea, Crimea, Russia. (@SeanCanavanreal / Twitter). He Called The Positions Of The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Against Russia “Shameless” And Accused Poland, Ukraine, And The Baltic Countries Of Instigating Them. On Monday, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov denounced that the West might provoke a war in Ukraine to blame Russia and impose economic sanctions on it. “I do not rule out that there is such a desire to fuel militaristic sentiments [in Ukraine] to stage a ‘small war’ and then accuse us and impose new sanctions to suppress our competitive advantages,” Lavrov […]
Above Photo: A protester holds bread during a demonstration in Tunis, Jan. 26, 2021. Hedi Ayari / AP “Four Meals From Anarchy” The Political Consequences Of Hunger Are Profound And Unpredictable But Could Be The Spark That Lights A Powder Keg Of Anger And Resentment That Would Make The 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests Look Tame By Comparison. Washington – Already dealing with the economic fallout from a protracted pandemic, the rapidly rising prices of food and other key commodities have many fearing that unprecedented political and social instability could be just around the corner next year. With the clock ticking on […]