Outdated and out of time: Biden’s crusade for global democracy is doomed to fail

Simon Tisdall Biden’s division of the world into “for us or against us” camps carries uncomfortable echoes of George W Bush, circa 2001, and of Putin himself. That it is America’s manifest destiny (updated version) to defend and promote freedom and democracy everywhere is a message that normally plays well with US voters. At least,… Read More Outdated and out of time: Biden’s crusade for global democracy is doomed to fail

26th February 2023 Dilip

US Weapons Makers on a Marketing Spree

By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Western Europe depleted its armory by shipping everything to Ukraine to get blown up by the Russians. That creates a huge market opportunity for the U.S. weapons industry, which thus also eyes potential South American customers; hence its eagerness for some nations there to send their Soviet-era tanks to Ukraine, to… Read More US Weapons Makers on a Marketing Spree

22nd February 202322nd February 2023 Dilip

Seymour Hersh on Witnessing American War Crimes in Vietnam

In a wide-ranging discussion, the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist ponders why other journalists were hesitant to report on the notorious My Lai case. Seymour Hersh’s work has been published in numerous publications, including The New Yorker and The New York Times. He won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. His book… Read More Seymour Hersh on Witnessing American War Crimes in Vietnam

13th February 202313th February 2023 Dilip

‘Sadness in the whole forest’: family of Cop City activist killed by US police seeks answers

Manuel Paez Terán was protesting a planned Atlanta police training center when officers repeatedly shot and killed him. The activist, who went by the name Tortuguita, was one of dozens trying to protect the South River Forest from a $90m, 85-acre police and fire department training center planned for the site. The project is known… Read More ‘Sadness in the whole forest’: family of Cop City activist killed by US police seeks answers

13th February 202313th February 2023 Dilip

Marina Ovsyannikova says she still fears for her life after ‘chaotic’ escape to France

Marina Ovsyannikova, the former Russian state TV editor who famously interrupted a live news broadcast to protest against the start of the Ukraine war, has described her “chaotic” escape from house arrest in Moscow and how she fled across Europe to seek asylum in France. “I didn’t want to emigrate until the very last moment,” Ovsyannikova said… Read More Marina Ovsyannikova says she still fears for her life after ‘chaotic’ escape to France

11th February 202311th February 2023 Dilip

International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine

By Omar Ahmed (Middle East Monitor ) – A conference was held in London yesterday, hosted by MEMO entitled “International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine” and included a diverse group of academics and writers discussing three broad themes: apartheid, genocide and decolonisation. Dr Daud Abdullah, the Director of MEMO, kicked off the event by… Read More International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine

7th February 20237th February 2023 Dilip

US Surrounds China With War Machinery While Freaking Out About Balloons

By Caitlin Johnstone / CaitlinJohnstone.com In what Austin journalist Christopher Hooks has called “one of the stupidest news cycles in living memory,” the entire American political/media class is having an existential meltdown over what the Pentagon claims is a Chinese spy balloon detected in U.S. airspace on Thursday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled his scheduled diplomatic visit to China after the… Read More US Surrounds China With War Machinery While Freaking Out About Balloons

7th February 2023 Dilip

Gáspár Tamás; prophet of post-fascism

The late Marxist intellectual Gáspár Miklós Tamás captured Europe’s disorientation after the Cold War. By Anton Jäger In the late 1920s the Austrian novelist Joseph Roth took a series of trips through the Soviet Union. The timing was duly symbolic. Ten years earlier the Bolsheviks had overthrown the Tsarist regime and won the subsequent civil war.… Read More Gáspár Tamás; prophet of post-fascism

6th February 20236th February 2023 Dilip

I must start completely alone

Gonzalo Pozo on Isaac Deutscher’s wartime years in London London Reviw of Books – Vol. 45 No. 3 · 2 February 2023 Isaac Deutscher , later the biographer of Trotsky and Stalin, was in the Warsaw flat of his closest friend, the political journalist Bernard Singer, early in October 1938 when the Wehrmacht’s entry into the Sudetenland was… Read More I must start completely alone

5th February 20235th February 2023 Dilip

Iranian couple filmed dancing in Tehran are jailed for 10 years

NB: The Iranian theocracy has banned happiness, in Gods name. I wonder what they understand of the promised paradise. DS An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of more than 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran’s main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of… Read More Iranian couple filmed dancing in Tehran are jailed for 10 years

1st February 20231st February 2023 Dilip

After the truth-shower

Philosophy, history, literature, current affairs, and other stuff. Posted by Dilip Simeon

Tag: Global War and Violence