Living on a Deadline in the Nuclear Age. Some Personal News From Daniel Ellsberg
Dear friends and supporters, I have difficult news to impart. On February 17, without much warning, I was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer on the basis of a CT scan and an MRI. (As is usual with pancreatic cancer – which has no early symptoms –...
Understanding the Logic of Canada Giving $2.26 Billion in Arms to Ukraine
Over the past year Ottawa has given Ukraine over $2 billion in weapons. The size of the arms donation is unprecedented in Canadian history. According to a February 17 Le Devoir calculation, Canada has delivered $2.26 billion in weapons to Ukraine. The paper costed 17...
The Military-Industrial Complex and American Fascism
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) had it right. The military-industrial complex (MIC) is fundamentally antidemocratic The national security state has become the fourth branch of government and arguably the...
Public Versus Private: Managing Perceptions of the War in Ukraine
"I want Russia to be defeated in Ukraine," French President Emmanuel Macron publicly told the media. But it’s not what he privately told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He also said that now is not the right time for dialogue with Moscow and that...
How Social Networks Became a ‘Subsidiary’ of the FBI and CIA
The US Congress last tried to grapple with what the country’s ballooning security services were up to nearly half a century ago. In 1975, the Church Committee managed to take a fleeting, if far from complete, snapshot of the netherworld in which agencies such as the...
Iraq Monthly Roundup: 113 Killed in February
Joe Biden Disparages George Washington on President’s Day With Trip to Kyiv
Rather than celebrating President’s Day in the United States on Monday, February 20, President Joe Biden went to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In direct contradiction to President George Washington’s 1796 farewell address, Biden delivered...
The Antiwar Movement Roars Back to Life
On February 19th, the National Mall in Washington, DC saw its largest antiwar rally in 20 years. The speakers list included four former US presidential candidates and a broad and diverse collection of antiwar activists from beyond the left and right. The aptly-named...
Nine More Ukraines
Joe Biden must think that he’s the world’s Rich Uncle. In a meeting with the so-called Bucharest Nine today he promised these former Warsaw Pact nations – which should never have been admitted to NATO in the first place – unlimited economic and military support. Nine...
