The Geopolitics of Peace
Reprinted from Consortium News. This is an edited transcript of Professor Jeffrey Sachs’ speech in the European Parliament at an event titled “The Geopolitics of Peace,” hosted by former U.N. Assistant Secretary General and current BSW MEP Michael von der Schulenburg,...
SLOCs and Chokepoints: Panama, Greenland, Canada – and Indigenous Peoples
Early into his second term as US President, Donald Trump threatened to seize control of the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada, possibly through military force. To justify seizing the Canal, Trump lamely asserted that the US has been subjected to “unfair” transit...
Manifest Destiny in the Histories of the US and Israel
For Palestine and Palestinians, 14 May 1948 was a fateful day in its 4,000-year history. It was also historically pivotal for the United States. Paraphrasing British author, George Orwell, it is essential to rediscover the past in order to gain control of the...
Netanyahu Views the Hostages as His Excuse To Restart the Slaughter
Israel sustained the West’s support for its slaughter in Gaza for 15 months only through an intensive campaign of lies. It invented particularly heinous Hamas war crimes, such baby beheadings and mass rape, for which no evidence has ever been produced. Conversely, it...
Trump’s Mineral Deal and Pillaging Ukraine
Normally, it is the country that defeated you in war, and not the country that defended you, that pillages you after the war. Unfortunately for Ukraine, its biggest military defender is set to pillage its resources as the two countries have now signed a minerals...
Fire the Washington War Party
Reprinted with permission from EricMargolis.com. President Donald Trump gets a lot of things wrong. Chief among them is his crazy plan to ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians from the smoking ruins of Gaza. But he also gets some very important things very...
President Trump Wants To Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half. How?
Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. It is Presidents’ Day, and President Donald Trump has made a bold statement regarding military spending – one that no other president in modern history has made. He claims he could cut the Pentagon budget by about...
Torjuntavoitto: The Finnish Strategy That Could Save Ukraine
After three years of stagnation, this past week saw clear steps towards peace in Ukraine. Trump and Putin spoke on the phone, and US and Russian negotiators met face to face in Saudi Arabia for the first time in years. Trump said explicitly that he was “okay” with...
