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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.”
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.
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
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.
(15 May 2022) “As editor-in-chief of Wikileaks and through the publication of whistleblower information on serious war crimes, Julian Assange has the greatest peace policy significance. Already in 2019, Northern Ireland's Mairead Corrigan nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. This year, further nominations have been added.
by Jeffrey D. Sachs,* USA
(2 May 2022) The two-pronged US strategy, to help Ukraine overcome the Russian invasion by imposing tough sanctions and by supplying Ukraine's military with sophisticated armaments, is likely to fall short.
What is needed is a peace deal, which may be within reach. Yet to reach a deal, the United States will have to compromise on NATO, something Washington has so far rejected.