Our own Ron Ridenour, along with a number of knowledgeable experts on the region, the war, the CIA and other related issues will be on hand to discuss the current crisis in Ukraine this April 1.
Getting at the truth amid a storm of lies
Important history lesson:
NATO is Not a Defensive International Organization But Was Founded to Threaten the USSR
Reading US reports on the deadly Russian rocket attack on the so-called International Peacekeeping and Security Center in western Ukraine, one could be excused for thinking that the Russians might have been destroying some UN peacekeeping base. In fact, the deceptively named target, as a few US news reports on the attack did note, …
Berlin should step up and end the war in Ukraine:
Germany Deserves a Big Share of the Blame for the Disaster in Ukraine
Nobody is talking about the blame that must be shouldered by the German government for the crisis and humanitarian disaster in Ukraine. Sure Russia is guilty of a huge war crime in invading Ukraine, Surely too, the US must be blamed for creating the situation which led Russia and its autocratic leader Vladimir Putin …
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Time for the US to take the lead for peace in Ukraine:
The US’s Aggressive Expansion of NATO Created This Horror; The US Can and Should End It
The sad state of what used to be the peace movement in the US is on display today in the nation’s capital and on highways leading to DC. As a bloody and dangerous war is raging in Ukraine between the armies of Russia and Ukraine, the latter backed by arms being supplied by the …
Why isn't everyone panicking about nuclear war over Ukraine?
Don’t Be Too Mad about MAD. Somehow, It’s Kept Us from a Nuclear War for 77 Years
The latest events in Ukraine have demonstrated the ugly but effective operation of Mutual Assured Destruction — the frightening and incredibly costly state of affairs in this world that arrived in 1949. That was when the Soviet Union exploded its own nuclear bomb, just four years after the US exploded the first three in …
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As US forces head to Europe and Asia, war risk grows:
US Wants a New War or at Least Public Fears of One
This article is published in Salon.com, which assigned it. Last August with a chaotic evacuation by air of the last US troops in Afghanistan, President Biden effectively ended one of the country’s most embarrassing and pointless wars, leaving that battered land fully in the control of the Taliban — the same dogged AK-toting …
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Newly released FBI files explain a 70-year-old mystery:
One Brother Gave the Soviets the A-Bomb; The Other Was Honored for Designing US ICBMs
To hear the podcast of the author speaking about and elaborating on this article in the Nation magazine, in an interview by Nation contributing editor Jon Wiener, click here. The interview begins at the 14:10 point in the podcast. In April 1950, three months before Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested as Soviet atomic spies, FBI director …
CIA 'Reminds you of the glory of the American Experiment'
What Was CIA Role in Kennedy’s Assassination 58 Years Ago? Biden Continues Cover-Up
JFK’s Revenge: WikiLeaks Referenced JFK In Its Passphrase, Was He Killed By The CIA? (wearechange.org) and JFK-scatterCIAtoWinds.pdf (ratical.org) My grandmother’s familiar saying was, “Ignorance is bliss”. She had a point, because most “common” people accept this notion as part of their daily reality. They have learned to do so by watching what “their” …