Tag: Arms industry

  • There Is Only One Night Left to Build Fortifications

    There Is Only One Night Left to Build Fortifications

    Niniko Morbedadze (Georgia), The Orange Clouds on the Boundary, 2018. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 13 September, at a conclave in Washington, DC, US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer indicated that it would be acceptable for Ukraine to fire missiles, provided by the […]

  • Greasing Palms: The Thales Blueprint for Corruption

    It is a point verging on the trite: an arms corporation suspected of engaging in corrupt practices, spoiling dignitaries and officials and undermining the body politic.  But one such corporation is France’s Thales defence group, which saw raids on their offices in France, the Netherlands and Spain on June 26 and June 28.  The prosecutors […]

  • The Global Deep State

    The madmen are in power. — Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the […]

  • Sovereignty Surrendered: Subordinating Australia’s Defence Industry

    One could earn a tidy sum the number of times the word “sovereignty” has been uttered or mentioned in public statements and briefings by the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. But such sovereignty has shown itself to be counterfeit.  The net of dependency and control is being increasingly tightened around Australia, be it in terms […]

  • A Strategic Nightmare Sneaks into Washington’s Political Agenda

    A Strategic Nightmare Sneaks into Washington’s Political Agenda

    Illustration: Liu Rui/GT A simultaneous war with China and Russia is a strategic nightmare that sober American strategists such as Henry Kissinger have been warning the US to avoid at all costs, and it is also a topic that some US media outlets have become more and more fond of talking about in recent years. […]

  • “A Good Investment”: The Ukraine War and the US Arms Racket

    It all tallies.  War, investments and returns.  The dividends, solid, though the effort expended – at least by others – awful and bloody.  While a certain narrative in US politics continues in the vein of traditional cant and hustling ceremony regarding the Ukraine War – “noble freedom fighters, we salute you!” twinned with “Russian aggressors […]

  • MEP Mick Wallace: “What are the working-class people of Ukraine dying for?” 

    US neoconservatives like Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken are using Ukraine as the linchpin of their strategy to undermine and destabilise Russia.   Since the start of the conflict in February 2022, billions of dollars’ worth of military hardware has been sent to Ukraine by the EU. By late February 2023, it had forwarded […]

  • What “Security Threat” Does China Pose?

    Everyone who abhors war, detests imperialism, and favors cooperation between nations on global warming, poverty reduction, protection of biodiversity, international disarmament, implementation of international law, and other left-wing priorities ought to be appalled by the escalating tensions between the U.S. and China and actively organizing against them. The new Cold War between “East” (including Russia) […]

  • Finland’s NATO Move Leaves Others to Carry on the “Helsinki Spirit”

    Finnish President receives Nobel Peace Prize in 2008. Photo Credit: Nobel Prize On April 4, 2023, Finland officially became the 31st member of the NATO military alliance. The 830-mile border between Finland and Russia is now by far the longest border between any NATO country and Russia, which otherwise borders only Norway, Latvia, Estonia, and […]

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