Australia has just taken another step, as part of the AUKUS agreement with the US and the UK, that is leading us towards an event that should be unthinkable – involvement in a major war against China.

 

‘We’re being sold a false choice on war’    By Sue Wareham

 

The great failure of the press to carry out the bare minimum of its journalistic mandate—to hold political figures accountable in a representative democracy, and to at least question such obvious electoral fabrications, such as the kind George Santos perpetrated—are prime examples of what Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored from 1996-2010, identified as News Abuse.

 

By Robin Andersen / CounterPunch

 

The US has become a more dangerous nation and Donald 2.0, with his instinctive aversion to war, may even be less threatening to the world.

 

American elites may fear Trump return, but the rest of us need not     By Alex Lo

 

Joe Biden’s presidency has very little to write home about. When it comes to foreign and trade policies, he has not only continued his predecessor’s, but also maximised them. While Donald Trump started mainly a trade war with China, Biden has switched to full-spectrum containment short of a hot war.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky declared six Russian regions to be “historically inhabited by Ukrainians” in a decree published on Monday. The list does not include any of the territory that Kiev claims sovereignty over in the ongoing conflict with Moscow, and focuses on globally recognized parts of Russia.

The document includes Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod regions, all of which border Ukraine. It also lists Voronezh, Rostov, and Krasnodar regions, all of which bordered Ukraine before 2014, when Crimea decided to join Russia in a referendum and the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics declared independence from Kiev.

THE REALITY IS THAT THE "YUCKRAINIAN" KIEV REGIME IS FASCIST. HISTORICALLY, KIEV HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH NAZIS, EVEN BEFORE WW2, BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING ABOUT 600,000 JEWS. 

THAT ZELENSKY IS A JEW IS A SMOKESCREEN TO MAKE US ACCEPT THAT HE IS A DECENT GUY. ZELENSKY IS NOT. HE IS AN ACTOR EMPLOYED BY THE AMERICANS TO PLAY A ROLE WHICH INVOLVES LYING, GRANDSTANDING AND CORRUPTION ON A GRAND SCALE.

THE KIEV REGIME HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN ETHNIC CLEANSING: SAY ELIMINATE THE LARGE RUSSIAN POPULATION OF "UKRAINE".

IT IS BECOMING AUTHORITARIAN (IT HAS BEEN AT LEAST SINCE 2000) UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF NATO, WHICH IS ALSO A FASCIST ORGANISATION THAT LIES

THE KIEV REGIME HAS ELIMINATED ALL OPPOSITION PARTIES IN ITS PARLIAMENT.

Last week the French government joined the German government in claiming that the Genocide Convention does not apply to Israel. Because the convention was created in response to the Shoah, Israel should have legal immunity for any war crimes it commits, including the genocide which it is currently conducting against Palestinians in Gaza.

 

The Western club- with its own morals, rules and rewards    By Scott Burchill

 

Paris has also suggested that regardless of the verdict in the genocide case brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa, it would ignore any decision that was unfavourable towards Israel.

On 15 February 2021, BBC Panorama aired a “hit job” on several prominent doctors and scientists who had the integrity to speak out against the covid agenda.  The title of the programme was ‘Vaccines: The Disinformation War’.  BBC’s reporter for the programme was none other than disinformation agent Marianna Spring.

 

Two weeks of winter storms in the United States have turned roads into icy death traps, frozen people to death and caused power outages that could take weeks to fix.

Selected players scattered around the Beltway silos of power, diligently working as messengers for the people who really run the show in the Hegemon, have concluded that a no holds barred confrontation with Russia would lead to the collapse of all of NATO; undo decades of US iron grip on Europe; and ultimately cause the Empire’s downfall.

 

The Ukraine Charade, Revisited   BY PEPE ESCOBAR 

 

On November 29, 2023, former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut; he was 100 years old.

Like a well-rehearsed orchestra, the corporate media immediately subjected the public to rendition after rendition of what a model “statesman” and exemplary human being he was. True to form, the corporate media suffers from a chronic affliction of lies, misinformation, “turning history on its head,” and a “sanitization” of the doers of evil. 

Emmanuel Todd, historian, demographer, anthropologist, sociologist and political analyst, is part of a dying breed: one of the very few remaining exponents of old school French intelligentzia – a heir to those like Braudel, Sartre, Deleuze and Foucault who dazzled successive young Cold War generations from the West down to the East.

The first nugget concerning his latest book, La Défaite de L’Occident (“The Defeat of the West”) is the minor miracle of actually being published last week in France, right within the NATO sphere: a hand grenade of a book, by an independent thinker, based on facts and verified data, blowing up the whole Russophobia edifice erected around the “aggression” by “Tsar” Putin.

 

French president Emmanuel Macron has announced new deliveries of long-range missiles and bombs to Kiev, while insisting the West “cannot let Russia win” the conflict with Ukraine. He added that he will visit the country next month.

Speaking at a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Tuesday, the French leader reiterated that his country will continue to assist Ukraine. Amid criticism that France has not been doing enough to help Kiev, Macron said Paris would send 40 SCALP air-launched cruise missiles, which have a range of more than 250km, as well as “hundreds of bombs.”

In Thomas Mann’s seminal novel ‘The Magic Mountain’, a tuberculosis sanatorium nestled high in the Swiss Alps comes to represent Europe’s bourgeois society on the eve of the violent upheavals of World War I. This week, in the very same town of Davos that inspired Mann’s epic work, the annual World Economic Forum is taking place.

 

By Henry Johnston

 

The impolitic comment has inflamed tensions between Ukraine and Russia.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba contemplated slugging his counterpart Sergey Lavrov in the face during tense negotiations in the early days of Russia’s special military operation, it was reported Monday.

The revelation came from the release of an interview with an online Ukrainian influencer who asked Kuleba about his most challenging negotiations as the country’s chief diplomat.

 

Events in the Middle East and the US President’s need to consider domestic politics during an election year combine to create a dangerous situation for the world, according to one analyst.

The likelihood of global military confrontation is increasing according to analyst Yezid Sayigh, a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center.

Sayigh made the assessment during an interview with Chinese media that touched on Israel, the crisis in the Red Sea, and the United States’ so-called “pivot to Asia” policy. Commenting on tensions between Israel and its neighbors in the Middle East, Sayigh offered sobering insight on the potential for events to escalate beyond world leaders’ control.