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Scary Thoughts from Selidov
The war in Ukraine will be over, and those who died will not be remembered as heroes or liberators. “Our own children will curse us,” said one of the participants in the Ukrainian army’s escape from the town of Selidov in the DNR. He witnessed extrajudicial executions and torture of civilians – old men, women, […]
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De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy
In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East. “Security zones” are being seized in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria. Land is, for claimed reasons of self-defence, being appropriated with brazen assuredness. It is hard, however, to see this […]
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Zero Accountability
Monday night, Israel killed more than 400 Palestinians in a massacre intended to destroy the ceasefire for good. This is not the first time that Israel has tried to upend the agreement. Over the last two months, Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians, blocked aid shipments, and refused to participate in talks on the next […]
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Gruesome Disinformation
Sufficiently gruesome to learn of the casualties in the Ukraine/Russo war. More gruesome to learn that the statistics don’t reflect actuality and are only another weapon ─ humiliate the opponent and have the public believe the enemy ignores the deaths of its soldiers. The Kyiv Independent (?), Friday, March 14, 2025, “General Staff: Russia has […]
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Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination
With the Ukraine War and the retreat of the United States from what has routinely been called Europe’s security architecture, states are galloping to whatever point of presumed sanctuary is on offer. The general presumption is that the galloping is done in the same step and rhythm. But Europe, for all the heavy layers of […]
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US and EU Supported al-Qaeda in Syria
The key decision was when Barack Obama finally decided in December 2012 to arm al-Qaeda in Syria so as to bring down Syria’s Government. That culminated a U.S. policy since 1949, which was aimed against Russia and against Palestinians. It is an established fact that U.S. President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Hagel, and the rest […]
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Ukraine Timeline Tells the Tale
May 18, 2015: Remains of an Eastern Orthodox church after shelling by the Ukrainian Army near Donetsk International Airport. Eastern Ukraine. (Mstyslav Chernov. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) Special to Consortium News and published there on February 25, 2025 The way to prevent the Ukraine war from being understood is to suppress its history. A […]
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European Leaders Plan Massive Increase in Defense Spending
European leaders meeting in an “Emergency War Summit” in Brussels have agreed on huge increases in arms spending. On entering the meeting, Denmark’s Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, declared “Spend, spend, spend on defense and deterrence.” And in response to an interviewer’s question, French Prime Minster Francois Bayrou dismissed the idea that the French public should […]
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Won’t Get Fooled Again?
Of course I want peace. Probably as much as anyone reading this. Naturally, I get excited and hopeful, whenever there are any signs that we are moving in the direction of a more peaceful world. At the same time, I’m fed up with being led down a primrose path only to find an Abrams tank […]
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Is This the Beginning or the End of a New Cold War?
Woman at rally supporting peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: Reuters) When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6 to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron called this time “a turning point in history.” Western leaders agree that this is an historic moment when decisive action is needed, but […]
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