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 …
Read More »Does the triumph of multipolarism spell the end of classical geopolitics?
The geopolitics of the multipolar world is dangerous, because it makes us consider what we live today in a new light. And it offers us a way to realise it. In the transition to a multipolar world, a number of questions arise on the level of theory, among which one …
Read More »The Smell of War Versus a Fresh Breeze of Peace and Cooperation?
During the previous years, and more specifically the last few months, the intensity of a putrid smell of war has increased to the point where apocalypse could be just around the corner. More and more talks of war, a fear-mongering discourse, the projection of a hot (nuclear) WWIII – hitting Central …
Read More »Hundreds of Scientists Urge Biden to Cancel $100 Billion Nuclear Weapons Boondoggle
“There is no sound technical or strategic rationale for spending tens of billions of dollars building new nuclear weapons,” an expert said. More than 700 scientists on Monday called for an end to the United States’ land-based nuclear weapons program that’s set to be replaced, following a Pentagon decision to …
Read More »The Anglo-Saxonization of American Foreign Policy and Its Perverse Consequences
Wherever he travels globally, President Biden has sought to project the United States as the rejuvenated leader of a broad coalition of democratic nations seeking to defend the “rules-based international order” against encroachments by hostile autocratic powers, especially China, Russia, and North Korea. “We established NATO, the greatest military alliance …
Read More »BIDEN: ‘I’M RUNNING THE WORLD
The Comment By The Sitting U.S. President In Friday’s Interview Has Been Ignored By The Mainstream. But its megalomania is at the heart of why Joe Biden is defying his party and remaining in the race. About midway through what was billed as the most consequential interview of Joe Biden’s …
Read More »Is stopping World War Three the Donald’s ‘trump card’ for winning the White House?
The Donald’s “trump card” for peace in Ukraine is another worthless deuce, Finian Cunningham writes. Donald Trump seems to have hit on a winning plan for returning to the White House – by convincing voters he is the candidate to prevent World War Three. The Republican candidate is lately pitching the importance …
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