Faint Hopes and Trump’s Phony Peace

By Christopher Black, March 18, 2025

The Russian leadership is not naïve, and knows that the Americans will try to use any negotiations to extricate itself on terms as favourable to themselves as they can bargain for, yet the fact the Americans came begging for a meeting does signal their recognition that Russia has the upper hand and that out of this can come a secure and lasting peace for Russia, for what remains of Ukraine, and for the world.

Are Things Going Amiss? “Trump’s Sincerity About Peace”? Paul C. Roberts

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 19, 2025

Trump’s bombing of Yemen could turn into something bigger. Trump’s national security advisor said that Washington might begin bombing Iranian warships.  He didn’t explain the point of it or address the consequences.  The bellicosity emitting from the Trump regime calls into question Trump’s sincerity about peace in Ukraine.

The Bloody Steps of Ukrainian Nationalists to Power: The Tragedy at the Trade Union House on May 2, 2014

By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, March 18, 2025

After ten years of nationalism in Kiev, Europe is beginning to open its eyes and recognize that fascism, Nazism, and criminal nationalism are thriving in Ukraine. Even the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged Ukraine’s complicity in aiding the Nazis’ mass murder of people at the Trade Union House in Odessa on May 2, 2014.

I Resigned 22 Years Ago from the US Government Over the Bush War on Iraq …And Wish I Had More Resignations to Give!

By Colonel Ann Wright, March 19, 2025

22 years ago, on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the US Department of State. I was the Deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia and the third U.S. government employee to resign in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq. I resigned on the day the Bush administration began the 10-year U.S. war on Iraq, March 19, 2003.

New Study: COVID-19 Vaccine “Millions of Lives Saved” Claim Debunked by Real-World Data

By Nicolas Hulscher, March 17, 2025

Our World Data reports that in 2021, 6.08 million more people died than in 2020. Several articles claim that COVID-19 vaccination in 2021 saved 14 million lives. Their proposition that COVID-19 vaccination saved lives was not proved by statistical data. These articles’ calculations evaluate how many people would die without the vaccination.

The True Purpose of Tariffs: Creating Chokepoints That Advance Class Warfare

By Emanuel Pastreich, March 17, 2025

The key idea behind these tariffs is to establish chokepoints on access to food, fuel, raw materials, and manufactured goods that will bring us to our knees. Elections and the popularity of politicians are the furthest thing from the minds of the people at private intelligence firms who are planning this move.

NATO’s ‘Joint Viking 2025’ and Growing Strategic Importance of Arctic

By Drago Bosnic, March 17, 2025

The political West and Russia have fully returned to the (First) Cold War-style strategic competition in various regions of the world. This includes Eastern Europe (particularly Ukraine), the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific (where Russia is working closely with allies such as China and North Korea), etc. However, there’s another major region that’s becoming increasingly important and contested – the Arctic.

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