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What kind of ‘democracy’ is this?
We Americans Need a Say in How Far the US Should Go in Backing Ukraine!
Russian president Vladimir Putin is playing a dangerous game by making threats to use ‘small’ so-called theater nuclear weapons with explosive power just a fraction of the power of the city-busting bombs the US used on Japan in August 1945. But so is the White House and the Pentagon playing a dangerous game in …
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A US president accusing Russia of violating the UN Charter's like Trump accusing Biden of watching porn
US Hypocrisy Knows No Limits
President Biden’s condemnation of Russia at the UN on Wednesday, where he claimed Russia had violated the UN Charter by invading Ukraine, a country he ludicrously insisted posed “no threat” to its larger neighbor, is epic hypocrisy coming from the leader of a country that not long ago invaded and destroyed Iraq based on a …
Little Crime, Murder, Violence—But Both are Increasing
Could Icelanders Herald Path to Economic Equality with Prosperity and Peace?
(Part II of CAM Correspondent Ron Ridenour’s Perspective on Near-Pristine Island-Nation — Part 1 here in Covert Action magazine) By Ron Ridenour We can learn from the Icelandic people’s sense of assuming political responsibility, their tightknit togetherness—98% know people they can rely on—and from their culture, which fosters more authors per capita than any …
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Getting at the truth amid a storm of lies
Teach-in on the War in Ukraine
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.
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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To idiot politicians and pundits calling for a US 'no-fly' zone over Ukraine:
If the US or NATO Put Fighters in the Air over Ukraine We’d Have World War Final
“Clearly, in the absence of a U.N. resolution, which Russia would veto, a strong coalition of like-minded nations should step in and seriously consider a no-fly zone over the Ukraine.” — Sen. Tom Wicker, (R-Miss), Senate Armed Services Committee …
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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 …
Russia decides it too, like the US, is an ‘exceptional nation’:
Welcome to the New ‘New World Order,’ Not Like the Old ‘New World Order’
The Western nations and especially the United States awoke today to a new world. After decades of hearing US politicians boastingly describe the US as the “exceptional nation,” justifying its repeated violation of international law with invasions of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Panama, Grenada, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, El Salvador, and …
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