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Video: Whether Clinton or Trump, Tensions Will Escalate with China and Russia Under Next U.S. President By John Pilger
Journalist John Pilger tells Paul Jay that the very real prospect of another World War is not being taken seriously by the American media Continue reading
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The Danger of Nuclear War between USA and Russia
18 October 2016 — Global Research War between US and Russia Could Be Sooner than Later. “The Danger of a Nuclear War” By Joachim Hagopian, October 18 2016 Barely noticed in a virtual media blackout in the West are at least a half dozen high alert, significant international developments that all strongly indicate the extreme danger of… Continue reading
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Gorbachev’s Nuclear Initiative of January 1986 and the Road to Reykjavik
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s radical proposal in January 1986 to abolish nuclear weapons by the year 2000 met with derision on the part of many U.S. officials, who treated it as pure propaganda, but was welcomed by President Reagan, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive. The records reveal serious internal… Continue reading
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“Mutually Assured Destruction”(MAD): The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having: Selected Articles
12 October 2016 — Global Research “Mutually Assured Destruction”(MAD): The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having By Adeyinka Makinde, October 11 2016 M.A.D. The concept of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ which posited the prospect of a global catastrophe in the event of a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union was one which permeated the… Continue reading
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Cheerleaders For US Aggression: Pushing The World Towards The Nuclear Brink By Colin Todhunter
As the US and its client states and terror groups keep pushing to destroy Syria, I’m reposting this piece from last year. Washington seems increasingly hellbent on direct conflict with Russia. Continue reading
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Mayhem! what we are we doing? Adding political to military strikes.“UN, US, UK devastation, complicity and double standards”
These words of journalist Felicity Arbuthnot reverberated as the writer belatedly discovered Josie Ensor’s report from Istanbul that a US air strike killed nearly 60 civilians, including children, in Syria after the coalition mistook them for Islamic State fighters. Some eight families were hit as they tried to flee in one of the single deadliest… Continue reading
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Stoking Russia Panic for Partisan Gain Will Have a Long-Term Price for Peace By Adam Johnson
According to leading pro-Democratic media, the US cannot possibly work with Russia; they are fundamentally adversarial. This type of macho posturing, previously the domain of Fox News, has become increasingly commonplace as the Clinton camp drives home the talking point that Trump is a Kremlin agent. Continue reading
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Provoking Nuclear War by Media: Selected Articles
23 August 2016 — Global Research Provoking Nuclear War by Media By John Pilger, August 23 2016 The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain… Continue reading
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We help our sinister friends to commit war crimes in Yemen
18 August 2016 — Drone Warfare A Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Yemen on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, the aid group said. And who is in the coalition? US and Britain have deployed their military personnel in the command and control… Continue reading
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The Arms Trade: 'You Don’t Get the Full Picture of What a Devastating Trade This Is'
Success is success after all, and for all the tales of a muckraking media, our guest’s experience suggests that when it comes to one of the most stupendously successful US industries, the press corps don’t seem all that eager to look behind the curtain. Continue reading
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The Neo-Con “West” And Global Destruction. A “New World Order” of Globalized Despair: Selected Articles
29 July 2016 — Global Research The Neo-Con “West” And Global Destruction. A “New World Order” of Globalized Despair By Mark Taliano, July 29 2016 The neo-con “West” and its allies want to destroy the Middle East so that they can control the Middle East. Under the auspices of their imperial “New Middle East” project, the criminals (U.S–led… Continue reading
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Britain’s Scramble For Africa: The New Colonialism By Colin Todhunter
Africa is facing a new and devastating colonial invasion driven by a determination to plunder the natural resources of the continent, especially its strategic energy and mineral resources. That’s the message from a damning new report from War On Want ‘The New Colonialism: Britain’sscramble for Africa’s energy and mineral resources’ that highlights the role of… Continue reading
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Video: Hillary Clinton, A Threat to All Humanity. World War III is “On the Table”. Her Candidacy Must be Opposed By James Corbett
The world looks on in horror as Hillary Clinton heads to Philadelphia to be nominated as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency. Yet still the leading lights of the so-called “progressive” movement argue that it is the left’s duty to vote for this neocon warmonger. But the consequences of this strategy may well lead… Continue reading
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Power and the Nuclear Bomb: Conducting Foreign Policy with the Threat of Mass Murder: Selected Articles
21 July 2016 — Global Research Power and the Nuclear Bomb: Conducting Foreign Policy with the Threat of Mass Murder By Colin Todhunter, July 21 2016 “Some fell to the ground and their stomachs already expanded full, burst and organs fell out. Others had skin falling off them and others still were carrying limbs. And one in particular… Continue reading
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Warsaw Summit: Western Leaders Ignore Reality By The Saker
A world split in two with, on one hand, a dying, delusional and weak Empire and, on the other, pretty much the rest of mankind. In this dying and unstable world, the NATO summit in Warsaw played the same role as the XXVIth Congress of the CPSU in the Soviet Union in 1981: a touching… Continue reading
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“The Doomsday Forum”: Senior Military, Nuclear Weapons Officials Convene… America’s “$1 Trillion Nuclear Weapons Plan”. Take out Russia, Iran and North Korea? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Nuclear Weapons And Interceptor Missiles: Twin Pillars Of U.S.-NATO Military Strategy In Europe On June 21, 250 top military brass, military planners, corporate military-industrial ”defense” contractors, top officials and scientists from the nuclear weapons laboratories as well as prominent academics gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico to discuss, debate and promote… Continue reading
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Silencing America as it Prepares for War By John Pilger
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in the American way, along with the salivating violence… Continue reading
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A World War has Begun. Break the Silence By John Pilger
Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 — the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years. Continue reading
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FT: “A part of the civilisation process” – air-strikes kill over 148* in Pakistan/Afghanistan last month, Cameron undeterred
According to the un-named writer of FT view, a part of the civilisation process “is the steady withdrawal of actual human flesh from the battle zone, with front lines gradually pulled apart by the advent of long-range artillery and air power, and the decline in the public’s tolerance for casualties”. Continue reading
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British arms companies ramp up bomb sales to Saudi Arabia by 100 times despite air strikes on civilians By Newpower
British arms companies have cashed-in on Saudi Arabia’s military campaign in Yemen by ramping up arms sales to the country’s autocratic government by over a hundred times, new figures show. Continue reading
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