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Oskar Lafontaine: Germany must recognize that it has different interests than the US

14 min read FLORIAN ROTZER

FLORIAN ROTZER
Berlin
The former SPD chairman, chancellor candidate, and German finance minister was one of the first to sign the "Manifesto for Peace," which urges the federal government to enter into negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to establish a ceasefire and to More than 600.000 people in Germany have signed so far. In this interview, Oskar Lafontaine speaks out in favor of ending arms deliveries and starting serious efforts in peace negotiations, advocating that France and Germany, in particular, develop an independent European security policy and break with the war policy of the United States.

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Putin and Zelensky: Sinners and Saints Who Fit Our Historical Account

6 min read STEPHEN KINZER

STEPHEN KINZER
Boston (USA)
Many who write about this conflict seem to believe, like their Cold War predecessors, that the US government is a team and that the press has a role in ensuring our team's victory. This opinion is death for journalism. The press should not be on anyone's team. Our job is to challenge official narratives, not meaninglessly amplify them. That's the difference between journalism and public relations.

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The Global South rejects pressure to side with the West against Russia

6 min read VIJAY PRASHAD

VIJAY PRASHAD
New Delhi
On the first day of the Munich conference, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was “shocked by how much credibility we are losing in the Global South.” The “we” in Macron’s statement was the Western states, led by the United States.

Whether fed up with pressure from the West or seeing economic opportunities in their relationship with Russia, more and more countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America have avoided pressure from Washington to cut ties with Moscow.

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Seymour Hersh: The notion that Europe can totally trust the US has evaporated

18 min read AMY GOODMAN and JUAN GONZÁLEZ

AMY GOODMAN AND JUAN GONZALEZ
In this interview, Seymour Hersh talks about how the US decision to bomb the pipelines served to secure the support of allies in the Ukraine war when some of them were hesitant. He says that this took away Germany's option of reopening the pipeline and withdrawing its support for kyiv in the conflict if things went badly. The veteran and award-winning journalist highlights that Biden told Europe: "you are secondary" and believes that the political consequences for the United States will be "enormous" and will undermine NATO.

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Ukraine must learn from Afghanistan and the wars by US delegation

6 min read JEFFREY D SACHS

JEFFREY D SACHS
The greatest enemy of economic development is war. If the world falls further into global conflict, our economic hopes and our very survival could go up in flames. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to just 90 seconds to midnight.

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The curtain rises: the elites are naked

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The erosion of judicial independence and press freedom, often noted by Hungarian and foreign observers in recent years, has turned Viktor Orbán into a nationalist and populist leader increasingly removed from liberal democracy. It is not an exceptional case that the Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010 has opted for a head-on clash with the liberal idea of Europe that has dominated until now, nor that from Budapest he promotes his ideas throughout the West, his main ally being the Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu.

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When a toxic train bomb hits your city

4 min read AMY GOODMAN and DENIS MOYNIHAN

AMY GOODMAN AND DENIS MOYNIHAN
On February 3, a massive train derailment in the town of East Palestine, Ohio blanketed the city in a toxic mix of chemicals and spilled gases, polluting the air, polluting waterways and killing thousands. of fish and frogs. Local residents suffer ailments ranging from shortness of breath, sore throat, burning eyes and rashes, all with unknown long-term consequences.

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How confusion and lies fuel a bloody war of attrition in Ukraine

13 min read MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES

MEDEA BENJAMIN AND NICOLAS JS DAVIES
No party in this conflict has come forward with their own people to honestly explain what they are fighting for, what they really hope to achieve, and how they plan to achieve it. All parties claim to be fighting for noble causes and insist that it is the other party that refuses to negotiate a peaceful resolution. Everyone is manipulating and lying, and the complacent media (from all sides) proclaim their lies.

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Inflating the threat balloon

4 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Will it be a spy balloon or not? Maybe with time it will be known. China says it entered US airspace accidentally and due to force majeure, which is for civil and scientific purposes. The Pentagon acknowledged that it did not pose a significant risk in terms of intelligence, but denied the major one.

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On the new "escalation of violence" in Israel and Palestine

6 min read ANA GARRALDA 0 comments

ANA GARRALDA
Those who have lived long periods of time in Jerusalem, a city as holy as it is devilish, tend to choke on the hackneyed concept of a "new spiral of violence" every time the murders of Palestinians or Israelis appear again in the summaries of the news on radio and television or in the pages of the international press.

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The Taiwanese Crossword

4 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
One of the key issues on the agenda of the postponed China-US summit should be Taiwan, the “red line number one,” as Chinese authorities describe it. The lack of commitment in handling this dispute could have a direct impact on bilateral relations, which reached one of their lowest levels in recent times after the visit of the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to the island last August.

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Israel's liberal democracy plummets out of control

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Every day it becomes more evident that liberal democracy is going through a deep crisis. We don't know if he will recover, but the signals we are receiving are not positive. In different places there are signs of fatigue and even weariness, one of the most sublime manifestations being that observed in Israel, although examples abound everywhere, from the United States to Eastern Europe.