War
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Collapsing Empire: The Delusion of US Air Power
Ever since March 15th, Washington has barraged Sanaa from the sky, killing and injuring countless innocent civilians while destroying vital infrastructure. For example, on April 2nd, US jets targeted a reservoir in western Yemen, cutting off access to water for over 50,000 people. Three days later, Donald Trump gloatingly posted a horrific video on social… Continue reading
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From welfare to warfare: military Keynesianism
Warmongering has reached fever pitch in Europe. It all started with the US under Trump deciding that paying for the military ‘protection’ of European capitals from potential enemies was not worth it. Trump wants to stop the US paying for the bulk of the financing of NATO and providing its military might and he wants… Continue reading
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From ‘No More Wars’ to Bombing Yemen: Trump’s Broken Peace Pledge
President Trump, our ersatz “anti-war candidate,” has chosen to escalate U.S. airstrikes in Yemen, bombing some of the poorest people on Earth while squandering vast sums on obscenely expensive naval air operations. Such is America’s way, it seems. Rather than leveraging diplomatic and economic pressure to compel Israel to facilitate aid access—thereby halting Houthi retaliation… Continue reading
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USA is #1 arms dealer, exporting 43% of world’s weapons: 7 times more than China, 5x Russia
The US is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Continue reading
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Labour’s arms exports to Israel exposed
This week, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) released new data showing how the Labour government licensed nearly £11m in arms exports to Israel during its first three months in office. Continue reading
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It’s Official: British Military Facing Extinction
In September 2024, Britain’s House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee published a little-noticed report, Ukraine: a wake-up call. Based on extensive consultations with military veterans and think tank apparatchiks, it amply exposed London’s “decline as a full-spectrum military power,” and how the country’s fantastical “commitment to retaining global influence” is based on “military… Continue reading
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The fragility of nuclear deterrence
History will not be kind to those who play with the future of humanity for the sake of their own political vanity. The danger of nuclear escalation is real. The international balance has hitherto been based on deterrence as an instrument of ‘guarantee’. But if this changes or fails, what will happen? Continue reading
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My Internal Exile
Long ago, but what seems like only yesterday, I didn’t go to the U.S. war against Vietnam but the war came to me. It was when my exile began. Continue reading
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Fyodor Lukyanov: How likely is a nuclear exchange over Ukraine?
The breakdown of private Russia-NATO diplomacy increases the risks of a terrible event Continue reading
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Politics – the entertainment division of the military industrial complex
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 — MROnline Donald Trump, an entertainer paid for by the military industrial complex. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Originally published: rabble.ca on November 14, 2024 by Ole Hendrickson (more by rabble.ca) | (Posted Nov 25, 2024) Being from Baltimore, I take civic pride in its writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, H.L.… Continue reading
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The staggering cost of operating US Military Aircraft
Wednesday, 6 November 2024 — New Eastern Outlook – USA = Military Industrial Complex Continue reading
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It’s time to #VoteAgainstTheMachine 🇺🇳
The 79th UN General Assembly is underway, and it’s time for states to take take action to #StopKillerRobots! An updated resolution on autonomous weapons will be tabled and voted on at the First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, which starts on Monday 7, October. Continue reading
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The UN’s abject failure has one primary cause – Western imperialism
The world is being pushed to the abyss of a Third World War, one that could bring the final destruction of the planet and humanity. Continue reading
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Is ‘Israel’ Using Small Nuclear Weapons in Gaza and South Lebanon?
Dr. Christopher Busby is part a mixed crew of investigative reporters and commentators from Lebanon and some film-makers investigating “Israel’s” use of enriched uranium in strikes on Gaza on Lebanon, and aim to follow up on the strange illnesses that are appearing on the battlefield. Continue reading
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US Seeks “Super Weapons” to Reign as Sole Superpower
The US openly declares that it seeks to maintain a monopoly over shaping the “international order” following the Cold War and America’s emergence from it as the sole superpower. Continue reading
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Defence correspondents: the journalistic wing of the military?
An analysis of broadcasters’ online coverage of defence spending and strategy since Keir Starmer won the election shows that reporting is virtually 100% in line with the government’s own priorities. Critical voices, where they are included, are entirely from the right. Continue reading
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The earth can’t endure Nato’s ambitions
NATO’s expansionary military targets are deeply at odds with the need to scale down global emissions to avoid deepening the climate crisis. Nato’s goal of dedicating 2% of GDP to military spending is set to exacerbate climate breakdown by diverting billions of dollars away from essential climate investment and significantly increasing CO2 emissions. Continue reading
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A Proposal For a Set of International Treaties For Arms Control, Disarmament, the Control of Emerging Technologies and International Security
The following three sets of international treaties for arms control, disarmament, the control of emerging technologies, and international security are absolutely essential to reverse the covert drive for war, even world war, that is taking place at every level in human society, that has accelerated over the last 20 years, and has spun out of… Continue reading
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Video: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Dress Rehearsal. The Dangers of Nuclear War. Michel Chossudovsky with James Corbett
“The Hiroshima Nagasaki ‘Dress Rehearsal’: Oppenheimer and the U.S. War Department’s Secret September 15, 1945 ‘Doomsday Blueprint’ to ‘Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map.’” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 