By Tony Cox, a US journalist who has written and edited for Bloomberg and several major daily newspapers.
From pogrom-mongers to Hitlerites to radical Islamists, the US has collaborated with repugnant partners for more than a century
America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia (Alternative source)
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Pentagon, NATO expand military dominance in Africa
Tunisia, Mauritania and Algeria have been members of NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue military partnership since 1994. No sooner did the Soviet Union dissolve in 1991 than the U.S. moved to expand NATO globally, including forging individual partnerships with the fifteen new nations emerging from the former USSR, three of whom (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) were brought into NATO in 2004.
Pentagon, NATO expand military dominance in Africa
Chad and Niger have hosted multinational military forces from several NATO nations in recent years; Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria are increasingly participating in Africa Command/NATO exercises, including Senegal in the 2021 (last held) U.S./NATO Sea Breeze war games in Ukraine and the Black Sea. Libya was bombed by NATO for over six months in 2011 and immediately afterward was touted as a prospective member of the Mediterranean Dialogue. It’s now effectively under military occupation by NATO powerhouse Turkey.
U.S. Africa Command and NATO, essentially coterminous, have effected the military integration of most all nations on the continent under mechanisms such as the African Standby Force and the Africa Partnership Station and regular military exercises like African Lion, Operation Flintlock, Obangame Express and Phoenix Express. The NATO Response Force was inaugurated in 2006 with massive military drills in the African nation of Cabo Verde.
Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0 Over Ukraine?
As Henry Kissinger wrote in 2014, “The demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.”
Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0 Over Ukraine?
Ukrainian Nationalists Have Long History of Anti-Semitism which the Soviet Union Tried to Combat
While Ivy League professors equate the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany, the Soviets fought the Nazis and ended violent anti-Jewish pogroms—which now threaten to return.
Ukrainian Nationalists Have Long History of Anti-Semitism which the Soviet Union Tried to Combat
H/T: Nicolas Cinquini
Top 3 unknown proxy wars between the Soviet Union and U.S.
During the Cold War, the two world powers clashed in dozens of conflicts around the world. However, if Afghanistan, Vietnam and Angola are known to everyone, proxy wars in Ethiopia, Laos and Congo have been largely forgotten.
Top 3 unknown proxy wars between the Soviet Union and U.S.
“There is nothing more democratic than referendums”
Machine-translated by Google Translate. H/T: Alfred de Zayas’ Human Rights Corner.
“There is nothing more democratic than referendums” (original in German)
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Interview with Prof. Dr. iur. et phil. Alfred de Zayas, international law expert and former UN mandate holder
Current affairs in focus: Were the elections in the Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaparozhye and Kherson oblasts in accordance with international law?
Prof. Dr. Alfred de Zaya: Referenda are fundamentally a human rights-compliant method of “taking the temperature” and determining the will of a population. Art. 1 of the UN pact on civil and political rights stipulates the right of self-determination for all peoples – including the people of Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaparozhye and Kherson – and of course the people of Crimea.
Article 19 of the Covenant stipulates the right of all people to freedom of expression. There is nothing more democratic than referendums. However, the UN has failed here. The UN has held self-determination referendums in Sudan, Timor-Leste and Ethiopia/Eritrea. But only after tens of thousands of people had been killed. The UN should have intervened earlier and held preventive referenda.¹
Are referendums irrelevant if they are not conducted by the UN?
Of course, popular referendums are important, even if international bodies ignore them. Of course, there are referendums all over the world, which unfortunately are not organized and carried out by the UN, but solely by the affected population themselves, for example the 1962 referendum in Algeria, which led to independence.²
A history of US threats to use nuclear weapons
The Biden administration and the media present Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons in response to military setbacks as an unprecedented break with long-established and hitherto unquestioned rules of international statecraft. This narrative is a lie.
A history of US threats to use nuclear weapons
First international antifascist congress held in Moscow
Uniting those who oppose the spread of Nazi ideology – which remains, as before, an imperialist tool for the division and control of the world’s peoples.
First international antifascist congress held in Moscow
Serbian Analyst: How war in Ukraine resembles past conflict in Yugoslavia
Interview by Adriel Kasonta, Asia Times, 9/24/22
Dragana Trifković is the general director of the Center for Geostrategic Studies in Belgrade, Serbia.
On September 8, a session was held in the UN Security Council on the topic of arms delivery to Ukraine by the West.
In the introductory part of the session, Trifković spoke about the weapons that were delivered to the battlefield during the war in Yugoslavia, comparing it to the current situation in Ukraine.
In the following interview, Trifković elaborates on that point for Asia Times.
Serbian Analyst: How war in Ukraine resembles past conflict in Yugoslavia
Flashback: CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline
A CIA operation to sabotage Soviet industry by duping Moscow into stealing booby-trapped software was spectacularly successful when it triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian gas pipeline, it emerged yesterday.
CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline
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