International

Dr Volodymyr & Mr. Zelensky: the dark side of the Ukrainian president

by Guy Mettan*

(28 June 2022) “Héros de la liberté”, “Hero of Our Time”, “Der Unbeugsame”, “The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World”, “Zelensky, Ukraine in blood”: the Western media and leaders no longer know what superlatives to use to sing the praises of the Ukrainian president, so fascinated are they by the “amazing resilience” of the comedian miraculously transformed into a “warlord” and “saviour of democracy”.

TV War Games Over Taiwan

by Caitlin Johnstone,* USA

(28 June 2022) NBC openly teamed up with a Pentagon-funded think tank to begin normalizing the idea of a U.S. hot war with China.

NBC’s Meet the Press just aired an absolutely freakish segment1 in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security (CNAS) ran war games simulating a direct U.S. hot war with China.

How did Finland and Sweden get into Nato?

Accession is one big gift to militarism and future warfare

by Jan Oberg,* Sweden

(20 June 2022) (Edit.) As an internationally recognised peace researcher, Jan Oberg describes the political-historical background of Sweden's and Finland's accession to NATO. How did it come about that both countries gave up their successful neutrality or non-alignment in just a few weeks?

Creating new cold war conditions in Asia isn’t easy

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(20 June 2022) Only three weeks remain for the summit meeting of the «North Atlantic Treaty Organisation» (NATO) in Madrid, which is expected to unveil a new Strategic Concept aimed at redefining “the security challenges facing the Alliance and outline the political and military tasks that NATO will carry out to address them.”

Power demonstration by an occupying power

by Wolfgang Effenberger,* Germany

(11 June 2022) At the invitation of US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, representatives of 40 countries met on 26 April 2022 at the US Air Base in Ramstein/Rhineland-Palatinate to discuss the war in Ukraine. Among them were countries that are not members of NATO. In the run-up, the US Department of Defence had stressed that the meeting was not taking place under the umbrella of the Alliance.

“Decision on the battlefield”?

That sounds like 1944 – tones from Berlin, Brussels and Washington awaken memories

by Willy Wimmer,* Germany

(30 May 2022) The war rhetoric in Washington, Brussels and Berlin accepts escalation and denies its own responsibility. In the process, the impoverishment of the population and the end of Europe are threatened. Politicians act as if this is none of their business.