International

The West’s False Narrative about Russia and China

by Jeffrey D. Sachs,* USA

(21 September 2022) The world is on the edge of nuclear catastrophe in no small part because of the failure of Western political leaders to be forthright about the causes of the escalating global conflicts.

The relentless Western narrative that the West is noble while Russia and China are evil is simple-minded and extraordinarily dangerous. It is an attempt to manipulate public opinion, not to deal with very real and pressing diplomacy.

For the implementation of a new multipolar world order without war

by Stefan Hofer,* Basel

(19 September 2022) After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the European socialist states, after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA),1 the power elites in the West triumphed that the capitalist market economy and the Western system of states controlling it, dominated by the USA, had finally prevailed in the system competition with the socialist world, thereby defeating socialism. The end of history had already been proclaimed.
Russia

Russia’s “Vostok 2022” has big messages

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(29 August 2022) The announcement by Russian Defence Ministry on Tuesday [26 July] on “Vostok-22 strategic command post exercises” during August 30–September 5 gives a big message to the West in political and military terms.

Current situation in Ukraine and global implications

Talks with Jacques Baud and Gabriele Galice

by Robert Seidel

(18 August 2022) As part of the summer conference of “Swiss Standpoint” on 29 and 30 July 2022, Jacques Baud, iGst Colonel, and Gabriele Galice, president of the Geneva Institute for Peace Research GIPRI, spoke on the topic of “War in Ukraine: current situation and global implications”. Both represent well-founded positions that may well be outside the mainstream.

AMLO is Trying to free Mexico and Latin America from the US’s Imperial Grip

by Medea Benjamin*

(18 August 2022) President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is wildly popular among Mexicans at home and abroad. It’s not just because of his domestic policies: AMLO is also playing a key role in challenging US dominance in Latin America.

Protest Movement Rejects Appointment of Sri Lankan President

by Abayomi Azikiwe*

(18 August 2022) Ranil Wickremesinghe, 73, Prior To Taking Office on July 20, Declared a State of Emergency across the South Asian State.

Sri Lanka, an island-nation of 22 million people, has been the center of political and economic turmoil since the United National Party government defaulted on $51 billion in foreign debt during May.