Tag: International security

  • Derangement Unbound

    Karl Marx famously said in the Eighteenth Brumaire that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” While there are many examples of this insight from history, Marx could not foresee how farce would become the staple of the US ruling class, how elites would defend what they see as their […]

  • We Need a Huge Rage against the War Machine

    We Need a Huge Rage against the War Machine

    We urgently need to spark a mass mobilization antiwar movement in North America. There have been good antiwar demonstrations in recent months, but they have been very limited. We need to rapidly expand tenfold. The Rage Against the War Machine initiative, which is organized by a diverse group of anti-war forces, could do just that. […]

  • How Spin and Lies Fuel a Bloody War of Attrition in Ukraine

    How Spin and Lies Fuel a Bloody War of Attrition in Ukraine

    Fresh graves at a cemetery near Bakhmut, December 2022. – Photo credit: Reuters In a recent column, military analyst William Astore wrote, “[Congressman] George Santos is a symptom of a much larger disease: a lack of honor, a lack of shame, in America. Honor, truth, integrity, simply don’t seem to matter, or matter much, in […]

  • A Month’s Notice: Why Burkina Faso Ordered French Troops out of the Country

    A Month’s Notice: Why Burkina Faso Ordered French Troops out of the Country

    Though it was clear that Burkina Faso was eventually going to follow in the footsteps of Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR), Ouagadougou’s decision to break military ties with France was not as simple as media sound bites want us to believe. The conventional wisdom is that these countries are walking away from their […]

  • The Danish Government’s Last Visit to Ukraine – the West’s Last or Penultimate War?

    The Danish Government’s Last Visit to Ukraine – the West’s Last or Penultimate War?

    The Danish foreign, defence and the prime minister is greeted by President Zelensky (right) The West/NATO has always lacked a long-term strategy. After all, it was militarily, economically and politically superior and could impose its will. Didn’t have to think. Hoping Ukraine would join NATO without fuss was hubris-ridden wishful thinking, and stupid to boot, […]

  • Does Anyone Believe the US’s Denial of Carrying out the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage?

    Does Anyone Believe the US’s Denial of Carrying out the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage?

    The exposure has been denied by the Empire. But does anyone believe the denial? Not today, none. People across the world have come across such denials many times, and each time all the denials turned out to be lies. The latest denial is related to the incident of explosion in the Nord Stream pipelines. The […]

  • The US Empire is Starting to Fall Apart

    The US Empire is Starting to Fall Apart

    In order to understand why, the nature of imperialism, and thus of all empires, needs first to be explained (especially because almost no one knows about this): Whereas a merely domestic dictatorship is no danger to other nations, an international dictatorship — or “empire” — is a danger to other nations, because every empire (i.e., […]

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