US Sanctions and Economic Conditions Drive Nicaraguan Migration

John Perry Blaming migration on “repressive dictatorships” allows Washington to pretend that its policies are helping Nicaraguans, when in fact they are impoverishing them. Why are more Nicaraguans heading north to the United States looking for jobs? Until July 2020, numbers were tiny. But in the last 1½ years numbers have increased sharply. Suddenly this…

Two Thirds of NATO Countries Have Depleted Their Arms Stockpiles for Ukraine

Pierre Duval The conflict in Ukraine is draining the arms stocks of Western countries. The situation has become critical for the arms and ammunition stocks held by Western countries. The military engagement of the West in Ukraine is threatening their security. A financial and military stockpile drain The conflict in Ukraine, an abyss: “The war…

Iran: From Social Mobilizations to the Direct Armed Phase

Mission Verdad The classic sequence of a destabilization process established in Iran under the codification of color revolution. Since mid-September, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been subjected to a new cycle of destabilization. The death of a young Kurdish-Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini (22), on September 16 was the starting point. Amini, who had been…

Circuits of War: Biden’s Technological Offensive against China

This article by Italian social theorist Marco d’Eramo, which originally appeared in Sidecar (a blog published by New Left Review), provides a detailed and insightful analysis of the “chip war” being waged by the US as part of its broader New Cold War on China. D’Eramo explains the profound importance of the semiconductor industry to the overall…

The Billionaire Plot to Impose Full Corporate Dictatorship in the Core of a Declining Empire

Rainer Shea The arc of capitalism is one where the system contracts, losing the robustness that it had when it was in the process of replacing feudalism. Its demand for limitless growth inevitably runs into obstacles, and that forces it to eat itself. Because there’s no way for capital to reverse its decline, and the…

Weapons Handed Over to Ukraine Returned to Western Terrorists and Criminal Gangs

Vladimir Platov A year ago, the whole world was actively debating the fate of United States weapons supplied to Afghanistan, which ended up in the hands of terrorists and criminal gangs. It should be recalled that according to Joe Biden, the total US military spending in 2001-2021 on military operations in Afghanistan exceeded $2 trillion,…

Russia Ops in Ukraine (Update): Western Propaganda Implodes as War of Attrition Grinds On

Update on Russian military operations in and around Ukraine for November 28, 2022. – Battle front is stable, Russian forces are pushing back amid stalled Ukrainian offensives; – Russia continues dismantling Ukraine’s power grid, leaving millions without electricity; – US claims Russia is committing “war crimes” despite the US having targeted power grids repeatedly amid…

Ukraine: The Russian Winter Offensive

Gordon M. Hahn The only way Ukrainians will see anything approximating a holiday season is if a ceasefire can be arranged by New Year’s Day, and it just might happen, regardless of President Volodomyr Zelenskiy’s repeated assertions that there will be no negotiations with Russia until it withdraws all its troops from all occupied territories,…

Tanzanian Farmers Mobilize for Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pan-Africanism

Tanupriya Singh On November 17-18, over 400 smallholder farmers gathered for the 27th annual meeting of MVIWATA or the National Network of Small-Scale Farmers Groups in Tanzania. Peoples Dispatch spoke to them about their struggle for dignity and justice Hundreds of smallholder farmers gathered in the city of Morogoro on November 17 and 18 for…

On the Development of China’s Environmental Policies Towards an Ecological Civilization

China aims to build nearly 300 eco-cities We are very pleased to republish this important article by Efe Can Gürcan, Associate Professor at Türkiye’s Istinye University, which originally appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 of the BRIQ (Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly). The author argues that China has already developed a firm understanding of its environmental problems…

Why is the Lockerbie Lie of Libya’s Involvement Still Being Kept Alive Today?

Martin Jay Pan Am Flight 103 If the American public knew that its own government, directed by Ronald Reagan, had covered up its own dirty work so as to stop the truth from coming out – that it was the CIA allowing terrorists to send drugs to America via U.S. airlines and protected by CIA…

Ukraine’s Slow Defeat Foreshadows the USA’s Fate

Rainer Shea New York’s massive blackout 2019 As the Ukraine proxy war fails, U.S. strategists prepare to fight off revolution in America’s borders The U.S. empire took a gamble on the geopolitical chessboard by provoking Russia into intervening in Ukraine. Now that it’s losing this gamble, having the U.S. and its allies economically suffer worse…

The Hell with the Peace Movement. I’m Joining the War Movement.

Scott Ritter Ukrainian flag raised in NYC I once helped lead a million-person march against the war in Iraq through the streets of London. I spent untold hours traveling the width and breadth of the United States and the world advocating against the war in Iraq. I wrote articles until my hands cramped and spoke…

BRICS Breaks the Hegemony of the West

Vladimir Odintsov According to a growing number of analysts in various countries around the world, the liberal world order that was established on the planet after the end of the Cold War in the interest of the United States is crumbling before our eyes and is definitely doomed. The Economist magazine, which is owned by…

Nigeria: The Last War Before the End of the World

Guadi Calvo The last war before the end of the world has been raging in Kaduna, a state in northwestern Nigeria, for at least ten years, between the Muslim majority ethnic group and essentially herdsmen known as Fulani, who fight against Christian farmers, renewing an ancestral conflict that the climate crisis and the war in…

Coups, Imperialism and Instability in Burkina Faso

Bettina Engels Discussing the recent coup in Burkina Faso, ROAPE’s Bettina Engels describes the major instability in the country and the region. For several years there have been attacks by non-state groups across the country – with two million people displaced, and more than 4000 killed in the last 12 months. The current military junta…

European Parliament Smears Russia While Bankrolling Nazi Terrorism

Strategic Culture Foundation Editorial European politicians are once again fueling war with their calumnies against Russia and their deliberate stoking of Nazi embers. One would think, perhaps, that with a perilous war raging on the European continent, the European Union’s parliament might want to show some leadership in promoting diplomatic solutions to end that conflict….

Ukraine: Running On Empty

Moon of Alabama Yesterday the Pentagon announced another transfer of weapons to the Ukrainian military. According to the Pentagon, the package includes: Additional munitions for NASMAS 150 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Additional ammunition for HIMARS 200 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds 10,000 120mm mortar rounds High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs)…