NATO’s new focus on China harkens back to the belligerent alliance’s early days. At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC, last week China was a big part of the agenda. The NATO summit’s final declaration mentioned the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) 14 times. It noted that …
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American Democracy’s Theater of the Absurd
Since the end of the Cold War and the Clinton administration coming to power in 1992, the United States has undergone a systemic decay in its political body. Policies increasingly favor the interests of an oligarchic and powerful elite more often than not at the expense of the public. The …
Read More »The 2024 Election and the End of the American Century
It would be hard to get a more striking sense of just how deeply the century has aged than by watching two elderly men once again running for president in an American world that distinctly seems on the downhill slope. It’s not a happenstance or some sad mistake that, barring …
Read More »Three possible fates for the U.S. in a multipolar world
Preserving hegemony is no longer a possibility for Washington. Given the unstable situation in the U.S., it is worth analyzing the possible impacts of geopolitical changes on American foreign policy. Amid the elections and rising domestic social tensions, the future of the U.S. appears extremely uncertain – largely because American …
Read More »The USA is The Only Country Where There Are More Firearms Than People. Why Curbing Gun Violence Is Not Succeeding
The USA in the only country in the world where there are more firearms than people. 46% of all households have a firearm. This is the average. In some places this can be over 60%. About 48,000 people die in gun-violence in a year, the majority of this being suicide …
Read More »US WAR GAMES IN PACIFIC SEEK GLOBAL PARTICIPATION IN IMPERIALIST MANEUVERS
Hawaiian Activists Call On Nations Who Condemn The Genocide In Gaza To Withdraw From Rim Of The Pacific War Games. The games are organized by the US military and illegally hosted on Hawaiian land. Every two years, the Indo-Pacific Command Center of the United States convenes the largest maritime war …
Read More »“Preemptive Nuclear War”: The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity
Introduction At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable. All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped. Let us also recall the unspoken history of …
Read More »How the ‘war on terror’ made the US Institute for Peace a sideshow
Forty years ago, Congress thought it was a good idea to fund peacemaking, but it was no match for War Inc. This year the United States Institute of Peace is 40 years old, and most Americans and U.S. government officials have little to no awareness that Congress funds an institute …
Read More »NATO Should Stay Out of Asia
Far from serving as a stabilizing force, NATO’s presence in the Indo-Pacific would inflame regional tensions without providing increased security. Since identifying China as a “systemic challenge” in its 2022 Strategic Concept, NATO has been pursuing closer strategic and operational relations with Japan, Australia, South Korea, and New Zealand, collectively known …
Read More »Majority in US Say Project 2025 Is Exactly What Trump Represents
In a new survey, American voters expressed fear that Project 2025 is “an unprecedented, extreme Republican plan that will fundamentally alter the American government, making Trump even more dangerous in a second term.” A new survey released Wednesday found that with days to go until former U.S. President Donald Trump …
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