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By Binoy Kampmark* – CounterPunch website  It all tallies. War, investments and returns.

By Caitlin Johnstone* –  Information Clearing House During a speech at the EU Parliament’s foreign affairs committee on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of…

By John Kirk and Stephen Kimber (*) – Al Jazeera Destructive US efforts to control its ‘back yard’ continue to this day. Today is the 50th anniversary of a devastating military coup in Chile which gave way to one of the most brutal dictatorships in Latin American history.

Rundell and Michael Gfoeller (*) – Newsweek In 1919, John Maynard Keynes was a young economist with the British delegation negotiating the Versailles Treaty. Keynes strongly objected to the harsh economic treatment being meted out to Germany.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The crisis of journalism has been talked about almost since the beginning of newspapers with large circulation. As early as 1919, Upton Sinclair published The Brass Check, a devastating critique of the power of capital to corrupt the press and…

By Ted Galen Carpenter*- Global Research Western leaders have long fostered the self-serving myth that NATO is an organization solely for the mutual defense of its members. The corollary is that other nations therefore have no legitimate reason to fear the most…

By Branko Marcetic* – Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) More than a decade after NATO’s intervention, people across the Sahel are still left picking up the pieces The events in Niger over the past few months have been alarming to watch. What began as a military coup now…

By Gordon Brown* Worldwide, 50 million people are victims of modern slavery. There should be no hiding place for those pulling the strings More than 200 years after the international slave trade was formally abolished, the terrible truth is there has never been a better time to…

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK Lost in a chaotic hall of mirrors of its own creation, the CIA has generally failed in its one and only legitimate task, to provide U.S. policymakers with accurate intelligence about the world beyond the Washington…

By Kester Kenn Klomegah* – Modern Diplomacy In this insightful interview, Samir Bhattacharya, a research associate at Vivekananda International Foundation, discusses the changing geopolitical situation, how India and Africa are working closely together to support the emerging…