Faint Hopes and Trump’s Phony Peace

 

Faint Hopes and Trump’s Phony Peace By Christopher Black The Russian leadership is not naïve, and knows that the Americans will try to use any negotiations to extricate itself on terms as favourable to themselves as they can bargain for, yet the fact the Americans came begging for a meeting does signal their recognition that Russia has the upper hand and that out of this can come a secure and lasting peace for Russia, for what remains of Ukraine, and for the world. Read here

Are Things Going Amiss? “Trump’s Sincerity About Peace”? Paul C. Roberts By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Trump’s bombing of Yemen could turn into something bigger. Trump’s national security advisor said that Washington might begin bombing Iranian warships. He didn’t explain the point of it or address the consequences. The bellicosity emitting from the Trump regime calls into question Trump’s sincerity about peace in Ukraine. Read here

The Bloody Steps of Ukrainian Nationalists to Power: The Tragedy at the Trade Union House on May 2, 2014 By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida After ten years of nationalism in Kiev, Europe is beginning to open its eyes and recognize that fascism, Nazism, and criminal nationalism are thriving in Ukraine. Even the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged Ukraine’s complicity in aiding the Nazis’ mass murder of people at the Trade Union House in Odessa on May 2, 2014. Read here

I Resigned 22 Years Ago from the US Government Over the Bush War on Iraq …And Wish I Had More Resignations to Give! By Colonel Ann Wright 22 years ago, on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the US Department of State. I was the Deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia and the third U.S. government employee to resign in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq. I resigned on the day the Bush administration began the 10-year U.S. war on Iraq, March 19, 2003. Read here

New Study: COVID-19 Vaccine “Millions of Lives Saved” Claim Debunked by Real-World Data By Nicolas Hulscher Our World Data reports that in 2021, 6.08 million more people died than in 2020. Several articles claim that COVID-19 vaccination in 2021 saved 14 million lives. Their proposition that COVID-19 vaccination saved lives was not proved by statistical data. These articles’ calculations evaluate how many people would die without the vaccination. Read here

The True Purpose of Tariffs: Creating Chokepoints That Advance Class Warfare By Emanuel Pastreich The key idea behind these tariffs is to establish chokepoints on access to food, fuel, raw materials, and manufactured goods that will bring us to our knees. Elections and the popularity of politicians are the furthest thing from the minds of the people at private intelligence firms who are planning this move. Read here

NATO’s ‘Joint Viking 2025’ and Growing Strategic Importance of Arctic By Drago Bosnic The political West and Russia have fully returned to the (First) Cold War-style strategic competition in various regions of the world. This includes Eastern Europe (particularly Ukraine), the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific (where Russia is working closely with allies such as China and North Korea), etc. However, there’s another major region that’s becoming increasingly important and contested – the Arctic. Read here