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An antidote to the ‘split’ in US peace movement

Massachusetts Peace Action, a venerable part of the US peace movement, has been around since the 1980s, and its predecessors date back to the 1950s. Its voice is heeded, and it represents most of the...

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On Ukraine, world majority sides with Russia over US

The year 2014 saw two pivotal events that led to the current conflict in Ukraine.   The first, familiar to all, was the coup in Ukraine in which a democratically elected government was overthrown at...

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NY Times shifts pro-war narrative

The New York Times has a job to do – and it has done that job spectacularly well over the past few months.  The Times is a leader – and in the opinion of this writer, the leader – in spelling out the...

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NYT repudiates drive for ‘decisive military victory’ in Ukraine

A week ago, we made note of a May 11 New York Times news article documenting that all was not going well for the US in Ukraine, and a companion opinion piece hinting that a shift in direction might be...

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Covid death toll vs China’s puts US to shame

In May and June two milestones were passed in the world’s battle with Covid-19 and were widely noted in the press, one in the US and one in China. They invite a comparison between the two countries...

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Biden postmortem on Pelosi’s Taiwan trip

(Present: President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and White House aide Tara Write) Joe Biden: Let me bring this...

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Democratic Party now the leading US party of war

Last May a remarkable column by Stephen Kinzer appeared in The Boston Globe. It was headlined: “Republicans return to their roots as the anti-war party.”   More significantly, the subheading ran:...

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If Zelensky called Tsai after her electoral rout …

In recent local elections in Taiwan, the party of Tsai Ing-wen, the US-allied, pro-secessionist president, lost badly. We have obtained a recording of a phone conversation that she received from...

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The first US onslaught to ‘weaken’ post-Cold War Russia

The first post-Cold War assault on Russia by the West began in the early 1990s well before the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It took the form of a US-induced economic depression...

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A new force for peace appears in the US

On February 19, Washington, DC, will witness a protest against the war in Ukraine that marks a sharp departure from past demonstrations. It also marks a new departure for anti-war, anti-Empire forces...

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Right, left rage together against war

Thousands of people assembled at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on February 19 to protest against the US proxy war using Ukrainians as cannon fodder to bring down Russia. It took as its name...

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Two anti-war voices in Republican Party speak up

Opposition to Joe Biden’s proxy war to destroy Russia has entered the 2024 US presidential election – from Stage Right. And the growing anti-interventionist sentiment among grassroots conservatives...

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US Senate leaves 2001 authorization for secret wars in force

On March 29, the US Senate voted to repeal two Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMFs), one passed in 1991 and another in 2002. The repeal now goes to the House of Representatives.  But...

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Diplomacy for peace, dead in US, blossoms elsewhere

“Global power struggles signal an end to an era of diplomacy.” So ran a front-page headline in The New York Times’ April 11 print edition for an article marking US President Joe Biden’s ceremonial...

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RFK Jr takes strong anti-war, anti-empire stance

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr, near the very beginning of his April 19 announcement to run for US president for the Democratic Party, spoke these words: “Fifty-five years ago last month, I sat as a...

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West’s economic war on Russia has failed

The US, with its EU vassals in tow, has carried out a two-pronged attack on Russia. The first is President Joe Biden’s cruel proxy war on Russia, with its cynical use of Ukrainians as cannon fodder....

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Arming Taiwan an unacceptable provocation

The island of Taiwan has been turned into a “powder keg” by the infusion of US weaponry, pushing the Taiwanese people to the “abyss of disaster.”  These are the words of the Chinese Defense Ministry...

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China dominates in high-quality natural-science research

“For the first time, China has overtaken the United States as the No 1 ranked country or territory for contributions to research articles published in the Nature Index of high-quality natural-science...

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An American appeals to Taiwan: Don’t vote to be Ukraine 2.0

On January 13, the people of Taiwan, officially designated the Republic of China (ROC), will elect a new president and unicameral legislature known as the Legislative Yuan. The election hinges on the...

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Putin explains why Russia doesn’t pose a threat to Europe

Tucker Carlson began his interview of President Vladimir Putin with the words, “On February 24, 2022, you addressed your country in your nationwide address when the conflict in Ukraine started….”...

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