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“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 […]
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The West’s blueprint for goading China was laid out in Ukraine
The West is writing a script about its relations with China as stuffed full of misdirection as an Agatha Christie novel. In recent months, US and European officials have scurried to Beijing for so-called talks, as if the year were 1972 and Richard Nixon were in the White House. But there will be no dramatic, […]
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Add Homo sapiens to the Endangered Species List
Preventing extinction of species is a major concern of many countries in the world today. Legislation to accomplish this is usually based on an endangered species list. Such a list should include any animal or plant species that has been deemed likely to go extinct in a few generations. Listing would normally trigger protective actions to […]
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If Everybody’s Going to Join NATO, Then Why Have the United Nations?
Bassim Al Shaker (Iraq), Symphony of Death 1, 2019 The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) held its annual summit on 11–12 July in Vilnius, Lithuania. The communiqué released after the first day’s proceedings claimed that ‘NATO is a defensive alliance’, a statement that encapsulates why many struggle to grasp its true essence. A look at […]
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NATO Lies, Jabs & Fries, Child Traffickers Rise, and a Man Steals a Woman’s Prize
As most compare Putin to Hitler, turn a blind eye to the U.S. sending cluster bombs to Zelenskyy the grifter, and witness the latest madness about Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), please remember: During the 1990 discussions to re-unify East and West Germany, the Western parties sought to defuse Moscow’s fears that […]
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How would Canadians perceive Russian troops on its border?
The Canadian government’s plan to double its semipermanent military force on Russia’s border ratchets up tensions that should be reduced. It highlights the West’s betrayal of promises made to Soviet officials and Canada’s addiction to stationing troops in Europe. On Monday Justin Trudeau announced that Canada will ramp up its military presence in Latvia. The […]
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Why The Most Urgent Need, in Order to Prevent WW III, Is to End All Military Alliances Now
World Wars I and II were contests between empires, and so America’s President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was determined that after WW II, all empires would be outlawed and all international relations (between nations) would be controlled only by a global all-inclusive federation of nations, which in 1941 he referred to would be called “the […]
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An Accident Waiting to Happen: NATO Looks to Asia
Since the end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has distinctly strayed from its original purpose. It has become, almost shamelessly, the vessel and handmaiden of US power, while its burgeoning expansion eastwards has done wonders to upend the applecart of stability. From that upending, the alliance started bungling. It engaged, without […]
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There’s too much Canada, not too little
A kid that already has handfuls of candies wants to take another whack at the piñata before others have had their first turn. That about sums up the foreign minister’s position on Canadian power in international affairs. Canada needs greater international influence, according to Melanie Joly. While the Foreign Affairs Minister’s recent comment elicited some […]
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