The Doomsday Clock is Closer to Midnight

Russia's Nuclear Signaling and Implications for European Security by Aylin Matlé and András Rácz, a memo to the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) [excerpts] https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/russias-nuclear-signaling-2026-and-implications-european-security      C-L Note: We are reprinting parts of this document to alert listeners to the serious possibility of a "tactical" nuclear exchange between Russia and NATO arising from increasing escalations and NATO countries' involvement in conventional attacks on Russia in the context of the war in [...]

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Welcome to the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century!

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) A "year in review" summary, as has been traditional in the January issue of Change Links annually, would recapitulate the horrors of the first year of Trump II, with which we are all too achingly familiar. I am instead going to take a longer view, and look back over the past quarter-century to see what got us into this deepening political, moral, economic and [...]

Cold War Truth Commission:

Putting the U.S. Cold War on Trial produced by Rachel Bruhnke, Cold War Truth Commission; Frank Dorrel, Addicted to War; and CodePINK Women for Peace. ISBN 979-8-218-80213-4; Paperback, 234 pp. San Pedro CA, $20. reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA   This invaluable just-published volume features more than 50 testimonies and expert analyses compiled and transcribed from the Cold War Truth Commission hearings in 2017 in-person in Los Angeles and in 2021 [...]

Is This the Beginning or the End of a New Cold War?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron called this time “a turning point in history.” Western leaders agree that this is an historic moment when decisive action is needed, but what kind of action depends on their interpretation of the nature of this moment. Is this the beginning of a new [...]

Trump Gives Peace a Chance in Ukraine

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies As we approach the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a monumental shift is taking place that might just lead to the end of this calamitous war. This is not a breakthrough on the battlefield, but a stark reversal of the U.S. position from being the major supplier of weapons and funding to prolong the war to one of peacemaker. Donald Trump [...]

Highlights and Lowlights of 2024

By Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA Some stories made a lot of news but not much difference in 2024. Some really significant stories and developments went unreported in the corporate media, and sometimes even the left press. The genocidal Israeli attacks on Palestinians, fully backed and financed by the US, entered its second year, and expanded into Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Yemen and Iran, as well as the swift US-Turkiye-Israel invasions into [...]

Letters to the Editors

To the Editor: This is a war for Russia's future, and ours. This is not just about Ukraine. Victory means defeating the West's campaign to weaken Russia. It means ending the Banderite (fascist) regime in Ukraine and securing our nation's future. For Ukrainians, Russia's victory will mark their liberation from a corrupt, foreign-imposed regime. For Russians, it will ensure stability, security, and strength for generations to come. Victory Day must be a [...]

BRICS Growing Alliance and Economic Activity: A Debate

BRICS Growing Alliance and Economic Activity A Debate on Democracy Now! Will the BRICS economic and political alliance change the world’s U.S.-centered balance of power? As the annual BRICS summit wraps up in Russia, Democracy Now!  hosted a debate between US economist Richard Wolff and South African sociologist Patrick Bond over the significance of the conference. This year, the nine BRICS countries (originally based on Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, [...]

BRICS: Anti-imperialist or Sub-imperialist?

BRICS, sub-imperialism and unequal ecological exchange Patrick Bond interviewed  by Federico Fuentes https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/brics-sub-imperialism-and-unequal-ecological-exchange Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist and author of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique. In part 2 of this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, he discusses some of the limitations in Vladimir Lenin’s views on imperialism and the need to incorporate the concept of "unequal ecological [...]

A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender

A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing campaign in Gaza. When Israel attacked Gaza after October 7, the Lavender system had a database of 37,000 Palestinian men with suspected links to [...]

Are We Stumbling Into World War III in Ukraine?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President Biden began his State of the Union speech with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion dollar weapons package for Ukraine “will put Ukraine at risk, Europe at risk, the free world at risk.” But even if the president’s request were suddenly passed, it would only prolong, and dangerously escalate, the brutal war that is destroying Ukraine. The assumption of [...]

U.S.-Backed Roll of the Dice Leaves Ukraine in Worse Crisis

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the US was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.” Ukraine’s fall 2022 counteroffensive left it in a stronger position, yet Biden and his NATO allies still chose the battlefield over the negotiating table. Now the failure of Ukraine’s long-delayed “Spring [...]

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