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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Pax Silica

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org/pax-silica/ Talk about Orwellian Double-Speak. Pax Silica is a US-led initiative to put Artificial Intelligence, which is still primarily driven by military and surveillance tech, at the center of an international geo-strategic economic development and national security alliance directed at countering China and protecting US economic, political and military dominance in the second quarter of the 21st Century. It is being [...]

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 [...]

G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas

G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas [Excerpts] By Pepe Escobar / The Cradle The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geo-politically and geo-economically, trying to put on a brave ‘holiday in the sun’ face. With Rio providing the ultimately gorgeous set, at the very least, tempers at the renovated Museum of Modern Art, the G20 venue with the Sugarloaf in the background, [...]

Partial Victory for Uhuru Three: Mumia Abu-Jamal

Partial Victory For Uhuru © 09/2024 by Mumia Abu-Jamal The proposed political frame up of leaders and supporters of the African Peoples Socialist Party, perhaps best known as the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, has ended with a federal jury rejecting the government’s biggest charge. Several members and supporters were charged as operators in support of a foreign government, that government being Russia. With the jury’s rejection of that main charge, [...]

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 [...]

National Security Adviser advises business that war is still good business

According to a report in Breaking Defense, a news service for the "defense" industry (AKA the masters of war), "Even as the White House has pushed billions of dollars towards Ukraine and Israel, the American defense industry has been wary of standing up production capacity over fears that it will invest and then suddenly see government demand drop quickly." National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan assured investors and weapons manufacturers that they have [...]

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 [...]

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Free the Uhuru Three

© 10/2023 by Mumia Abu-Jamal “Free The Uhuru 3!”  -- Dismiss all charges.   Three major radical figures are in the crosshairs of the U.S. government allegedly for “unregistered foreign agents of a foreign government” – Russia. They are Chairman Omali Yeshitela, head of the African People’s Socialist Party, headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, and two of his assistants: Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel. The three are charged with being unregistered agents because they [...]

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