by William J. Astore,* USA
(28 June 2022) “Follow the money” is sage advice in an America that prides itself on unfettered capitalism where everything is a commodity. A huge chunk of money, namely $54 billion, has already been dedicated to Ukraine in its fight against a Russian invasion, with more to follow if Congress has its way.
by Guy Mettan*
(28 June 2022) “Héros de la liberté”, “Hero of Our Time”, “Der Unbeugsame”, “The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World”, “Zelensky, Ukraine in blood”: the Western media and leaders no longer know what superlatives to use to sing the praises of the Ukrainian president, so fascinated are they by the “amazing resilience” of the comedian miraculously transformed into a “warlord” and “saviour of democracy”.
by Caitlin Johnstone,* USA
(28 June 2022) NBC openly teamed up with a Pentagon-funded think tank to begin normalizing the idea of a U.S. hot war with China.
NBC’s Meet the Press just aired an absolutely freakish segment1 in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security (CNAS) ran war games simulating a direct U.S. hot war with China.
by Jan Oberg,* Sweden
(20 June 2022) (Edit.) As an internationally recognised peace researcher, Jan Oberg describes the political-historical background of Sweden's and Finland's accession to NATO. How did it come about that both countries gave up their successful neutrality or non-alignment in just a few weeks?
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.”
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.