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(Une version française suit en dessous) A few years ago I was encouraged by the movement of the Arab Spring, writing in this blog that “the Arab spring and the ongoing democratic revolutions in the Arab countries are providing an important new momentum towards a culture of peace.” And in the spring of this year … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) The world faces many dangers at this moment of history, famines, global warming, wars in the Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, mass migrations, increasing electoral tendencies towards fascism. But all these are pale in comparison to the danger of a nuclear World War III which could put an end to all … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) Two years ago in this blog, I wrote that the dollar will lose its global role and be devalued. Among the reasons were the bloated military budget and bloated national debt to pay for it, the blow-back effect of American sanctions imposed on other countries, and the reaction of … Read more
(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
(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
(Une version française suit en dessous) This is the first of two blogs for April, 2022. The other one is entitled THE UKRAINE WAR COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED The title of this blog comes from a speech by Vladimir Posner at Yale Sept 27, 2018. Posner was the spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev in the latter … Read more
(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
(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
(Une version française suit en dessous) The is an old expression that “the chickens have come home to roost.” The wars that the American Empire waged abroad have come to the continental USA. For more than a century the US has waged war, overtly or covertly throughout Latin America. And in recent decades throughout the … Read more
(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