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Ukraine and the “Borderline Euphoria” of Military Lobbyists
ANDREW COCKBURN, [email protected], @andrewmcockburn Cockburn is author of the new book The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War MachineAndrew Cockburn’s new book reports on how “Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer’s urgent financial requirements; the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and prostitutes; senior Marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017 for budgetary reasons.”
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Can OSCE Help Defuse Ukraine Crisis?
Nonviolence International released a staetment last week: “A Chane for Peace: OSCE Must Strengthen the Ukraine Peace Monitoring Mission. The U.S. must reverse its withdrawal of OSCE peace observers.” Its director said today: “The escalation in these territories means that peace monitoring to monitor the conflict is needed more than ever.”
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How Biden Could End the Ukraine Crisis
Expert David Gibbs on the dangers of expanding NATO into Ukraine and how the Biden administration should deescalate the current conflict. He said that to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, “the Biden administration should offer a written guarantee that Ukraine will not be allowed to join NATO. To do this would satisfy” a “key Russian demand.”
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Ukraine, Cyberattacks and Undermining Democratic Processes
Amid widespread reports of cyberattacks on Ukraine, expert John Quigley weighs in on the “slippery slope” of self defense. He says the notion “has been misused as an illegal threat or for outright war” and that since the context for its creation has passed, “there’s really no legitimate reason for NATO to exist as an organization. Instead, it has expanded.”
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100 U.S. Organizations Release Statement Urging Biden “to End the U.S. Role in Escalating” the Ukraine Crisis
For the United States and Russia, the only sane course of action now is a commitment to genuine diplomacy with serious negotiations, not military escalation – which could easily spiral out of control to the point of pushing the world to the precipice of nuclear war.
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Roots of Joe Rogan Controversy: “A War on Public Health”
Journalist Alex Kotch said that to understand the origins of Covid-19 disinformation, we must look to corporate greed.
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How NATO Inflames Relations with Russia
“Coming so soon after their 20-year war in Afghanistan, U.S. officials should not be looking for new foreign interventions in the Ukraine — which risks even worse outcomes than the ‘War on Terror’ produced,” David Gibbs said.
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“Insane Reality”: As Wealthy Meet at Davos, Taxing them Could Provide for Humanity
Groups including the Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires released a report, “Taxing Extreme Wealth,” which reveals that modest taxes on the richest could “lift 2.3 billion people out of poverty” as well as “deliver universal health care and social protection for all the citizens of low and lower middle-income countries.”
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Post Office Offering COVID Tests
Lisa Graves, executive director of the watchdog group True North Research and leader of the BOLD ReThink project, said: “The Postal Service is one of the largest workforces in the U.S. and with forward-thinking leadership it can play a significant role in providing services and assistance so many Americans need, like COVID-19 tests to help Americans protect their health.”
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A Campaign Against COVID Public-Health Measures
A new investigative report reveals how a “corporate-bankrolled campaign” to combat public health measures began, and “how it has continued to supplant public health experts and hijack the governmental response to the pandemic.”
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