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France Stuck in the Extreme Center

by Diana Johnstone,* France

(21 May 2022) After years of neoliberalism, French politics that venture outside the conformist center’s unshakable loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance are now dangerously “extreme.”
On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron was re-elected for a second five-year term as president of the French Republic with 58.54 percent of the vote. Just as in 2017, the candidate he defeated was Marine Le Pen, who got 41.46 percent. Sounds like déjà vu all over again.

“The Russian Federation complied with applicable international law”

by Wolfgang van Biezen

(22 May 2022) (Red.) Russia's military deployment in Ukraine is generally described as contrary to international law. But the situation is not as clear-cut under international law as it appears at first glance. The International Court of Justice's 2010 opinion on the secession of Kosovo plays a decisive role in the assessment, as the author shows in his insightful study.

The Ukraine War is a Racket

by Ron Paul, USA*

(9 May 2022) “War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

America is driving Europe into a nuclear war

by Oskar Lafontaine,* Germany

(15 May 2022) Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the stranglehold of Washington’s gamblers: a negotiated peace with Moscow is becoming ever more urgent.

US-Intel Vets on Ukraine

Nuclear Weapons Cannot Be Un-Invented

by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity,* USA

MEMORANDUM FOR: The President [of the United States of America]

FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

SUBJECT: Nuclear Weapons Cannot Be Un-invented, Thus …

PRECEDENCE: Immediate

REF: Our Memo of 12/20/20, “Don’t Be Suckered on Russia”

Posted on May 1, 2022

Why nobody wants peace in Ukraine

by Guy Mettan,* freelance journalist, Geneva

(9 May 2022) [2 May 2022] We guessed it since the beginning of the conflict but it is now proven, peace will not take place in Ukraine before long.