Clau O’Brien Moscoso Cyclone Yaku recently devastated Peru with flooding and mudslides. (Photo: AFP 2023 / Jao Yamunaque) Clau O’Brien Moscoso continues her dispatches from Peru in the wake of a natural disaster and the ongoing coup against President Castillo. A Spanish translation follows. National Strike, Day 75 Perú has plunged into chaos since the…
Category: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Why Human Rights Watch Deliberately Only Scratched the Surface in Exploring Ukraine’s Use of Banned ‘Petal’ Mines
Eva Bartlett [Source: Photo Courtesy of Eva Bartlett] Since Ukraine dropped thousands of mines on the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in July, 104 people have fallen victim to the internationally-banned PFM-1 ‘petal’ (otherwise known as ‘butterfly’) devices. Nine of them are children. Of which three died. Among the most recent civilians to be injured, on March 19, were two 60-year-old men….
The Pentagon’s Budget from Hell
William D Hartung On March 13th, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The results were — or at least should have been — stunning, even by the standards of a department that’s used to getting what it wants when it wants it. The new Pentagon budget would come in at $842…
Why Britain’s Uranium Ammo Decision a Big Deal
Scott Ritter The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense announced that it would be sending anti-tank ammunition for the Challenger 2 tanks being delivered to Ukraine that contain depleted uranium. According to the British MoD, depleted uranium, or DU, “is a standard component and has nothing to do with nuclear weapons,” adding that “The British Army has…
US Biolabs in Georgia and Ukraine: Are Young Soldiers Still Being Used as White Rats?
Henry Kamens Once something is denied, and adamantly, you can suspect it is either true or something which raises too many inconvenient questions. Old news, such as US Produced Sarin Gas Used in Syria in Ukraine Lab, is now very current when we see vivid clips of Russian soldiers suffering horrific deaths from canister of poison gas…
Iraq Invasion 20th Anniversary: 5 Million Dead in Iraqi Holocaust
Dr Gideon Polya The 20th anniversary of the war criminal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq in 2003 will fall on about 20 March 2023. On this occasion mendacious and racist Western media will at best remember the Iraq War as a US policy mistake. However decent people will remember the carnage. From 1990…
12 Years Ago NATO Bombed Libya to “Protect Civilians”, Leaving Tens of Thousands Dead and a Country in Ruins
Moussa Ibrahim The Western war machine only served its own interests in destroying a nation that could liberate Africa On the 19th of March 2011, the NATO bloc began a violent 8-month long military onslaught of Libya, a sovereign African-Union founding member state, which had enjoyed four decades of stability, prosperity and one of the…
The US Blockade and its Effects on Cuban Medicine
Carlos L. Garrido Rural health care in Cuba (Photo by Carol Foil, 2009). The Cuban socialist healthcare system is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world.1 It is innovative, preventative, people-oriented, comprehensive, community-centered, internationalist, and, of course, de-commodified—treating healthcare as a human right, not a profitable commodity. However, in spite of its extraordinary successes,…
“Provoked” NATO Expansion, “Unprovoked” Ukraine War, and the Dire “China Threat”
Felix Abt A scene like something out of a third-rate mafia movie: producer, screenwriter and director (left) leaves this Orthodox church in Kyiv with his leading actor (right)—neither is Orthodox—taking leisurely steps, while sirens wail warning of an imminent Russian bombing. Although Moscow was briefed by Washington before this visit to avoid a dangerous incident,…
On the Twentieth Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq: The U.S. is the Greatest Threat to World Peace and Collective Humanity
Ajamu Baraka (Image: Song Chen, China Daily) History teaches that the greatest threat to peace today is the United States. No other nation creates dangers as great as those emanating from the U.S. commitment to the doctrine of Full Spectrum Dominance. As anti-imperialist and Anti-war activists are preparing to mobilize in Washington D.C. on the 20th…
Women of the Earth: Landless Women
MST Photo: MST in Minas Gerais Coluna Aromas de Março extols the importance of women in Popular Agrarian Reform in the struggle for a more egalitarian country All over the world we are experiencing a crisis of the capitalist production model, which expresses its contradictions in different aspects, among them: political, economic, social, and environmental….
State-Sanctioned Violence in Peru and the Role of Canadian Mining
Kirsten Francescone Protests against the Tía María copper mining project in Islay, Arequipa Region, Peru. Photo by Diario Correo. Canadian firms benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity at the expense of human rights and the environment. On January 18, 2023, as thousands of Peruvians were taking to the streets in Lima to denounce the…
Even After U.S. Empire’s Vileness is Exposed, its Agents Uphold the Cult of NATO
Rainer Shea There’s an explanation for why even after the United States has been exposed a thousand times over as a perpetrator of war crimes, and its ruling institutions have betrayed its own people by engineering horrors like the Ohio chemical spill, there are still actors who uphold the lies that let it continue committing…
Environmental Сatastrophe at Nord Stream
Orienrtal Review Baltic harbour porpoise According to European scientists, the undermining of the Nord Stream gas pipeline led to an ecological disaster in the Baltic Sea. The consequences of this sabotage vary, but the cumulative damage to nature is enormous. An immediate consequence of the pipelines’ explosion was the death of marine animals. According to Research…
Commission Reveals that Trudeau Government Lied About Nature of Truckers Protests in Ottawa Last February to Justify Invocation of Emergencies Act
Ray McGinnis Anti-vaccine mandate protesters were falsely accused of being rapists, white supremacists and violence-prone by a liberal prime minister who endangers Canadian freedoms. A year ago Canadian mainstream media and politicians described an unruly mob headed for Ottawa. On January 26, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadians there was a “fringe minority” with…
“When You See It, You Won’t Forgive”: Part III of an Investigative Report on Human Trafficking in Ukraine
Deborah L. Armstrong Photo: New Eastern Outlook Shortly after the beginning of the year, on January 14th, 2023, videos of a large protest in the Ukrainian capitol of Kiev began to surface on social media. The majority of the protesters were women, though some men can also be seen in the crowd. The women are identified…
Was the Pentagon and CIA Behind the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Jeremy Kuzmarov Bioterrorism expert and whistleblower alleges that CIA secretly collaborated in supporting unethical gain of function research that resulted in the manufacture of the COVID-19 virus, which was then leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Andrew G. Huff is an Iraq War veteran and infectious disease epidemiologist with a Ph.D. from the…
US Hegemony and its Perils
US troops steal Syrian grain and oil while US sanctions are killing the Syrian people, obstructing urgent humanitarian aid to victims of the recent earthquakes. U.S. Hegemony and Its Perils February 2023 Contents Introduction I. Political Hegemony — Throwing Its Weight Around II. Military Hegemony — Wanton Use of Force III. Economic Hegemony — Looting…
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