America’s War on Afghanistan, October 7, 2001: From “Soviet-Afghan War” to “Global War on Terrorism”

 

America’s War on Afghanistan, October 7, 2001: From Reagan’s “Soviet-Afghan War” (1979) to George W. Bush’s “Global War on Terrorism” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, October 05, 2023 The Pakistani military regime played from the outset in the late 1970s, a key role in the US sponsored military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan. In the post-Cold war era, this central role of Pakistan in US intelligence operations was extended to the broader Central Asia-Middle East region.

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Debt Colonization by IMF and World Bank: Sri Lanka Should Take Lessons from Argentina By Shenali D Waduge, October 05, 2023 US-India regime change in Sri Lanka in 2015 & multinational corporations promoting Mauricio Macri as President of Argentina also in 2015 have similarities. IMF/WB began playing key roles after the regime change. IMF & World Bank have a history of turning poor Global South nations into LOAN ADDICTS & then saddling them with DEBT.

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Germany’s Foreign Minister Baerbock’s Words “Are a Mere Bluff”: Promises to Add Russian Territories to the EU By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, October 05, 2023 The German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, is once again involved in controversies against Russia. This time, the minister promised that Russian territories will soon be part of the EU, which sounds simultaneously provocative and unrealistic, considering that Moscow will not allow any part of its Federation to be captured by Western powers and their Ukrainian proxy.

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The Unique Truth and Reality of New World Order By Prof. Maurice Okoli, October 05, 2023 As I clearly said in my participation in one of the plenaries of Valdai Discussion Club in Saint Petersburg, few days before the Russia-Africa summit late July 2023, one of the biggest problems of humanity is, in most times, an attempt to resist reality. In the context of social evolutionary processes, the reality is that the multipolar world is the idea whose time has come.

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Emerging Science: The True Precipitating Cause of Alzheimer’s May be Much Simpler Than Previously Believed By Ben Bartee, October 05, 2023 While the mainstream medical community — to the extent it is interested in preventing/treating disease in the first place and not just capitalizing off of it — has long held that the buildup of amyloid and tau proteins in the brain is the precipitating cause of Alzheimer’s disease, along with other degenerative conditions of the brain, the true cause may be much simpler and, critically, much more simply prevented/treated.

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US Weapons to Ukraine Are Sold Out of the Back Door to Terrorists By Steven Sahiounie, October 05, 2023 According to former Ukrainian Defense Ministry informants, the Foundation to Battle Injustice identified which NATO weapons are being resold by the Ukrainian government and revealed the scale and routes of the bloody business.

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Hands Off Haiti! By Black Alliance for Peace, October 05, 2023 We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the decision by the United States and its allies to deploy a foreign military force to Haiti. We are adamant that a U.S./UN-led armed foreign intervention in Haiti is not only illegitimate, but illegal.

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An Ominous Context of the Nazi Debacle in Canada By Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, October 05, 2023 A few days ago, I raised questions that stem from the standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian veteran of the SS in the Canadian parliament (see this). These questions deserve answers. Here are some of them.

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11 Activists Arrested in Senator Bernie Sanders’s Office Demanding Diplomacy Instead of Funding More War in Ukraine By Melissa Garriga, October 05, 2023 A group of 50 activists and Vermont constituents staged a sit-in inside Senator Bernie Sanders’s office on Wednesday, demanding the senator to call for peace and diplomacy in Ukraine instead of more weapons and war. The sit-in resulted in the arrest of 11 activists, including an 89-year-old CODEPINK peace activist.

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Britain Always Seeks a Profit in Wars By Mark Curtis, October 05, 2023 New orders are indeed flowing to arms companies as some announce rising profits fueled by the war. Corporations such as MBDA, Babcock and Thales have all recently won lucrative new contracts from the UK’s Ministry of Defence for missiles and technical support to armoured vehicles.

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