WE CAN FIND THE TRUTH, BUT WHERE CAN WE FIND HOPE?

(Une version française suit en dessous) This month’s CPNN bulletin  is devoted to the courageous individuals who dare to seek and publish the truth in the face of the censorship and outright lies of the information war between NATO and Russia. I add the following taken from the April 22 entry on the Facebook page … Read more

THE UKRAINE WAR COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED

(Une version française suit en dessous) As described in the first blog for this month, the Ukraine war is the result of mistaken policy decisions by the United States and NATO in 1997 which led to the expansion of NATO up to the borders of Russia. Already, back in 1997, when I was working for … Read more

THE FALL OF PUTIN – A DEJA VU

(Une version française suit en dessous) Deja vu – I’ve seen it before. I worked on and off in the Soviet Union during the 1970’s and 1980’s and I watched the crash of the Soviet Empire – from inside. There were three main causes of the crash: the loss of value of the ruble, the … Read more

DID THE U.S. AND NATO PROMISE NOT TO THREATEN RUSSIA BY MOVING THE MILITARY FORCES OF NATO TO ITS BORDERS?

(Une version française suit en dessous) We continue to be threatened by the culture of war, which, as usual in recent history, is monopolized by the nation states. Russia has massed military forces around the borders of Ukraine in the ancient tradition of the culture of war. Russia links this to insistence that Ukraine should … Read more

THE BIENNALE OF LUANDA: PAST AND FUTURE OF THE CULTURE OF PEACE IN AFRICA

(Une version française suit en dessous) The Biennale of Luanda, as described in this month’s CPNN bulletin, is a process unique in the world. Nowhere else on earth can you imagine a process that involves all of the countries of a continent in collaboration with the United Nations working together with a coordinating state to … Read more

UPDATING DIRE WARNINGS

A little over a year ago, I wrote in this blog that we are at a turning point in human history, that the American Empire is crashing and that there is a serious risk of a new American Civil War. The blog was illustrated by automatic weapons being accumulated by millions of American citizens and … Read more

Speech to Mayors for Peace

(Une version française suit en dessous) Here is the text that I provided to first national forum of the AFCDRP (Association of Mayors for Peace, France) that took place October 13 in Montpelier. First of all, I would like to thank Loréna Schlicht who invited me here and who has done a tremendous work to … Read more

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO JULIAN ASSANGE

(Une version française suit en dessous) To some extent one must applaud the choice of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists that have dared to defy government pressure. It is correct that the free flow of information is essential for peace, as we have maintained in this blog. In fact, it has become … Read more

AFGHANISTAN IS NOT THE END

(Une version française suit en dessous) The loss of the war of the war launched by the Americans in Afghanistan is the latest in a long list beginning with the loss of Germany and Japan in World War II and extending through the failure of the American wars in Korea and Vietnam. It is no … Read more