Jorge Elbaum Last Wednesday, the United States returned to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after three years of absence, decided by the Donald Trump administration. The first speech of the new Secretary of State Antony Blinken, however, did not differ one iota from the reasons given by the Republican for leaving this multilateral…
Category: NATO
How the CIA Helped to Crush Turkey’s Post-War Left
T.J. Coles Image by Diego González “The Growing Pains of Modernization” After the Second World War (1939-45), the U.S. became the dominant global power and fought its rival, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for international supremacy. Many countries became proxy battlegrounds between U.S. and Soviet influence. In addition to beating the Reds, U.S….
The Empire’s Hidden Hand: How the US Established, Sustains and Benefits from Morocco’s Occupation of Western Sahara
Dan Cohen On November 13, 2020, commanders from the United States and Morrocan militaries met to plan annual joint exercises. The following day, 1,000 Moroccan soldiers and 200 vehicles stormed into the Guerguerat border crossing – a key highway in the occupied Western Sahara that connects Morocco to Mauritania, built in violation of international law….
USA: The End of Hegemony
Luis Britto García Despite its formidable arms expenditure, which alone exceeds that of all the other countries on the planet combined, the United States has lost its military hegemony. The United States opened the century with the illusion that it was initiating a “New American Century”, according to the manifesto of the think tank “New…
Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat Participated in Covert UK Foreign Office-funded Programs to “Weaken Russia”
Max Blumenthal New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have sponsored Reuters and the BBC to conduct a series of covert programs aimed at promoting regime…
Trump’s Cursed Legacy: The Advance of Far Right Fascism in the New World Order of Savage Capitalism
Baltazar GarzónDemonstrators gather near a burning barricade during clashes with police following a protest condemning the arrest of rap singer Pablo Hasél in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Faced with the political, economic and social catastrophe of the savage capitalist system that governs the destinies of our unfortunate planet and before the vertiginous development…
Anniversary of African Genocide in Libya
Editorial Comment: The following article was published in February, 2019. Libya remains in turmoil today as NATO nations compete for the spoils of war and the people languish as hopes for healing, peace and justice are unrealized. A.V. Julian Lahai Samboma Men carry coffins during the burial of more than two dozen people after an…
Let Us Never Forget Why Muammar Gaddafi was Assassinated
Editorial Comment: The following article was first published on March 22,2019. A.V. Peter Koenig and Russia-TV24 Gaddafi was certainly not killed for humanitarian reasons. He wanted to empower Africa. He had a plan to create a new African Union, based on a new African economic system. He wanted to introduce the Gold Dinar to back…
With Argentina, the Condor Plan Closed the “Circle of Death!”
Gabriela Calloti Stella Calloni, Argentine journalist Stella Calloni, a journalist who specialized in international politics, detailed before the Federal Court the origin and functioning of the Condor Plan and Operation Condor, promoted by the United States. The clandestine detention centers of Banfield and Quilmes were part of this repressive plan coordinated by the dictatorships of…
The Fight for Belarus: An Interview with Nadezhda Sablina
Kayla Pop In August 2020, following the Belarusian presidential election, opposition protests began in the Eastern European country. The protesters, backed by imperialist forces abroad, called for the resignation of Alexander Lukashenko. In response, pro-government demonstrations were also held in defense of Lukashenko. Since then, political tensions have remained high in Belarus, where the threat…
Keys to Understanding Communication Warfare in Times of Pandemic
Ángeles Diez Diagnostic elements on the role of communication in the imperialist war in the context of the pandemic: Imperialist war is multiform and asymmetrical: it takes all possible forms and occurs in a situation of inequality. This is not new, it has always been so. However, it would be necessary to specify what this…
Head of Strategic Command: US Must Prepare for “Very Real Possibility” of Nuclear War With China
Alan Macleod Writing in the U.S. Naval Institute Journal, Admiral Charles A. Richard warned that the military must “consider the possibility of great power competition, crisis, or direct armed conflict with a nuclear-capable peer” and update and modernize its approach to its two principal adversaries. “There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with…
