(2022-05-23). "False positives": The cold-blooded murder of over 6,400 poor civilians by Colombian military assassins between 2002 and 2008. wsws.org The aim of this atrocity was to inflate the death toll in order to deceive the Colombian people as to the military's success in the war against the guerrilla Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, FARC, and to garner billons in military aid from the U.S.
(2022-05-23). New Zealand Labour government's budget imposes new burdens on working class. wsws.org While providing nothing to address soaring social inequality, and dismantling COVID protections, the Ardern government is diverting billions of dollars to integrate New Zealand into US war plans against Russia and China.
(2022-05-23). Sanctions — wrecking ball in a global economy. workers.org 
U.S. government strategists are using sanctions as a wrecking ball to demolish the globalized economy. It is a desperate struggle to preserve their global hegemony and a unipolar world. The policy of consciously demolishing supply chains of essential products amounts to a reckless war on defenseless civilian populations. Sanctions disrupt . . . |
(2022-05-23). Saudi Arabia Snubs US, Rejects Russia Boycott, as Rumors Fly Biden may meet with the Crown Prince. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) Even as the possibility of a visit to Riyadh by President Joe Biden after his upcoming trip to Israel is being rumored, Saudi Arabia is signalling that it cannot be brought on board with the NATO effort to sanction Russia. Last week the Saudi Minister of Energy, Abdul Aziz bin …
(2022-05-23). Still Support We Can Offer! transcend.org We sit helplessly by as opponents to peace | Decimate Ukraine | One town after another | On diverse devices, TVs, and radios | Forgetful of our shared humanity…
(2022-05-23). Paths Not Taken: Peace Initiatives That Would Have Helped Avoid the Mess We're in Now. transcend.org Why is there so little talk of peace for Ukraine? Is the world community really prepared to sit on its hands as the country is destroyed? We have no alternative but to redouble our advocacy, despite the knock-backs. Peace takes time, whereas a counsel of haste is a counsel of war. But we may not have ages and ages, so we need to work out how to make a difference.
(2022-05-23). Biden Redeploys Troops to Somalia While Humanitarian Crisis Looms. transcend.org 20 May 2022 – U.S. war policy in Ukraine and Eastern Europe has prompted hyperinflation, food deficits and economic underdevelopment around the world. The military maneuvers in the Horn of Africa as well will prove detrimental to the people of the region and throughout the world.
(2022-05-23). "Notes on Exterminism" for the Twenty-First-Century Ecology and Peace Movements. transcend.org May 2022 – The dual exterminist tendencies: the planetary ecological crisis and the growing threat of global nuclear annihilation.
(2022-05-23). Not Soon Enough: Meditations on Ending War and Visioning Peace. transcend.org March 2022 -To end war, we need to challenge the futures fallacies we use to construct reality. We also need to envision peaceful futures. This essay analyses a 'failure of (futures) imagination' behind wars and concludes with four meditations/visions on peace.
(2022-05-23). Western Media Engages in a War on Truth. transcend.org 16 May 2022 – Yellow Journalism of the Hearst Era Is Alive and Well in the 21st Century…
(2022-05-23). Notes from Ethiopia: The TPLF Destruction of Afar (Part 4). transcend.org 18 May 2022 – The U.S. backs TPLF war, then when IDPs overwhelm public health capacity, USAID sends help. Measles threatens to sweep IDP camps full of undernourished children. Contradictions of empire.