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Creating new cold war conditions in Asia isn’t easy

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(20 June 2022) Only three weeks remain for the summit meeting of the «North Atlantic Treaty Organisation» (NATO) in Madrid, which is expected to unveil a new Strategic Concept aimed at redefining “the security challenges facing the Alliance and outline the political and military tasks that NATO will carry out to address them.”

Naked Power and Julian Assange

by William J. Astore,* USA

(20 June 2022) The worst crime you can commit, in the eyes of the powerful, is to embarrass them and to reveal their crimes. That is what Julian Assange did, most notably about U.S. war crimes in Iraq, and that is why he is being hounded and punished.

Taking the nuclear threat seriously

by Dr med. Sabine Vuilleumier-Koch, MD.

(20 June 2022) Western media and policy makers ignore or trivialise the threat of nuclear war spreading across the world. Nuclear weapons are a suppressed reality.

The US sanctions against Russia will produce a global food disaster

by John Ross*

(20 June 2022) “There is really no true solution to the problem of global food security without bringing back the agriculture production of Ukraine and the food and fertilizer production of Russia and Belarus into world markets despite the war.” These blunt words1 by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres accurately describe the present global food crisis.

Power demonstration by an occupying power

by Wolfgang Effenberger,* Germany

(11 June 2022) At the invitation of US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, representatives of 40 countries met on 26 April 2022 at the US Air Base in Ramstein/Rhineland-Palatinate to discuss the war in Ukraine. Among them were countries that are not members of NATO. In the run-up, the US Department of Defence had stressed that the meeting was not taking place under the umbrella of the Alliance.

Double-Standards at the UN Human Rights Council

by Alfred de Zayas,* Geneva

(11 June 2022) It is no secret that the UN Human Rights Council essentially serves the interests of the Western developed countries and does not have a holistic approach to all human rights. Blackmail and bullying are common practices, and the US has proven that it has sufficient “soft power” to cajole weaker countries.