Antiwar, Apathy, and War Hawks

Kim Petersen: Read Part 1. Back in February of 2003, an estimated 10 million to 15 million people hit the streets around the world in opposition to a war on Iraq. US president George W Bush dismissed the protesting masses as a “focus group.” Bush and his partner in crime, UK prime minister Tony Blair, invaded Iraq […] The post Antiwar, Apathy, and War Hawks first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Kim Petersen
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The Proposed TikTok Ban Goes Too Far. The Current TikTok Ban Doesn’t Go Far Enough.

Thomas Knapp: On February 27, Reuters reports, the White House gave federal agencies a 30-day deadline to ensure that all government-owned devices are  TikTok-free. The supposed, but seemingly evidenceless, reason: Because a Chinese company owns TikTok — a smart phone app for creating and sharing short videos — the Chinese government may be using  it to spy … Continue reading The Proposed TikTok Ban Goes Too Far. The Current TikTok Ban Doesn’t Go Far Enough. → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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China Compellingly Appears To Be Recalibrating Its Approach To The NATO-Russian Proxy War

Voice of East: China Compellingly Appears To Be Recalibrating Its Approach To The NATO-Russian Proxy War By Andrew Korybko If the military-strategic dynamics decisively shift in NATO’s favor due to the bloc dispatching more modern arms to Kiev at the expense of its members’... Read More › - Voice of East
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Here’s What I Learned From Analysing The New Cold War For 365 Consecutive Days

Voice of East: Here’s What I Learned From Analysing The New Cold War For 365 Consecutive Days By Andrew Korybko Humbly speaking, nobody in the Alt-Media Community or the Mainstream Media has published as many analyses as I have over the past year, which... Read More › - Voice of East
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2FA Change: Good for Twitter, Good for Twitter’s Users

Thomas Knapp: Seldom a day goes by without some new controversy on, or about, Twitter. Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform worked like a mainline injection of methamphetamine to boost that effect. Consider a February 15 announcement which, even a year ago, would likely have struck most people as boring and technical: “[S]tarting today, we will no longer … Continue reading 2FA Change: Good for Twitter, Good for Twitter’s Users → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Instead of Stuck in Court or on Some Future Ballot, Legal Marijuana Should Be On DeSantis’s Desk ASAP

Thomas Knapp: For the “privilege” of using medical marijuana without being arrested, about one of every 25 Floridians pays the state government $75 per year for a special identification card, and up to another $200 for periodic visits to a small sub-set of authorized doctors who can prescribe the common plant for a limited number of ailments. … Continue reading Instead of Stuck in Court or on Some Future Ballot, Legal Marijuana Should Be On DeSantis’s Desk ASAP → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Sheikh Imran N. Hosein: Who Will Be Responsible For A Nuclear War?

Voice of East: Sheikh Imran N. Hosein: Who Will Be Responsible For A Nuclear War? By News Desk Sheikh Imran N. Hosein: If a nuclear war takes place, who will be blamed for it? Many scholars and analysts around the world are also... Read More › - Voice of East
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“Qualified Immunity” Strikes Again

Thomas Knapp: Over the last few decades, we’ve seen numerous bad actors escape punishment for their bad acts — ranging from theft to sexual misconduct to summary execution — for no better reason than that they were government employees, under the doctrine of “qualified immunity.” Now the US Supreme Court appears to have dropped the “qualified” part … Continue reading “Qualified Immunity” Strikes Again → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Enabling the Warmaking of Empire

Kim Petersen: It is understood by all that at least two sides are required in a war scenario. One side must be waging war on another side. It is not required that the aggressed side fight back. To surrender to a warmaker, however, means coming under the suzerainty of the warmaker. That is almost always anathema to […] The post Enabling the Warmaking of Empire first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Kim Petersen
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It’s Not Strange That Russia Gave Security Guarantees To Biden During His Trip To Kiev

Voice of East: It’s Not Strange That Russia Gave Security Guarantees To Biden During His Trip To Kiev By Andrew Korybko Neither competing Great Power wants a significant escalation in their ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, let alone one caused by Russia accidentally harming... Read More › - Voice of East
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Time To Invoke 4th Geneva Convention In Kashmir

Voice of East: Time To Invoke 4th Geneva Convention In Kashmir: Dr Fai By Our Special Correspondent Mirpur, Azad Kashmir – “I would like to remind everybody that we are mindful that hundreds of webinars have not brought any visible change in the... Read More › - Voice of East
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Government Population Control Isn’t About Population, It’s About Control

Thomas Knapp: A specter is haunting the globe — the specter of overpopulation. Or maybe under-population. Or perhaps “demographic decline.” Whatever it is, all the powers of old Earth have entered into various holy alliances to exorcise it. The panics started way back when with Thomas Malthus, but came to new prominence in 1968 with  Paul and … Continue reading Government Population Control Isn’t About Population, It’s About Control → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Law Enforcement Porn: Manufacturing Fake Crimes Instead of Solving Real Ones

Thomas Knapp: “[F]ormer MTV star” Connor Smith, NBC Chicago reports, “is wanted in the Chicago area after he was accused trying to meet a child for a sexual encounter. Smith is accused of “traveling to meet a minor, grooming a minor and disseminating harmful material.” While I’ve never heard of this “star,” he sounds like a bad … Continue reading Law Enforcement Porn: Manufacturing Fake Crimes Instead of Solving Real Ones → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Russia’s Newfound Appeal To African Countries Is Actually Quite Easy To Explain

Voice of East: Russia’s Newfound Appeal To African Countries Is Actually Quite Easy To Explain By Andrew Korybko Africa will always support the side that’s fighting to liberate its countries from the chains of neo-colonialism and structural racism, which means that the West never... Read More › - Voice of East
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Aloft in Search of Monsters to Destroy

Thomas Knapp: They’re over Alaska! They’re over Montana! They’re over Lake Huron! They’re over … oh, wait, they just got shot down. Whew! That was close! Tesla’s engineers are gathering this week in Washington with an eye on dramatically improving their vehicles’ acceleration profiles by studying how fast the US government managed to get from “nothing there,” … Continue reading Aloft in Search of Monsters to Destroy → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Maqbool Bhat’s Sacrifices For Kashmir Will Not Go In Vain

Voice of East: Maqbool Bhat’s Sacrifices For Kashmir Will Not Go In Vain: Dr Fai By Our Special Correspondent Washington, DC – “The children of oppressors are provided with all the luxuries and comfort of the world, but the children of resistance leaders... Read More › - Voice of East
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Russia is Taking on All of NATO plus Ukraine

Kim Petersen: … NATO doesn’t respect anything about Russia. NATO knows no limits. — Scott Ritter It is difficult for the person-on-the-street to get a proper handle on what is happening in a war. Regarding the current fighting between Russia and Ukraine, the monopoly media in the “West” has often pointed to Ukraine winning. Other independent sources […] The post Russia is Taking on All of NATO plus Ukraine first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Kim Petersen
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The Social Responsibility of Business is Cauliflower

Thomas Knapp: In 1970, economist Milton Friedman set out a bold claim in a New York Times op-ed: “The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase its Profits.” More than 50 years later, we find ourselves embroiled in episode X of “OMG, a restaurant is introducing a food I find suspicious, they’ve gone  WOKE.” Last August, it was … Continue reading The Social Responsibility of Business is Cauliflower → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Two Cheers for Matt Gaetz’s Ukraine War Resolution

Thomas Knapp: On February 9, US Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and ten Republican co-sponsors introduced a resolution “expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States must end its military and financial aid to Ukraine, and urges [sic] all combatants to reach a peace agreement.” When Matt Gaetz is right (which really isn’t very … Continue reading Two Cheers for Matt Gaetz’s Ukraine War Resolution → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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It’s Time To Clarify The Dynamics Of The New Cold War

Voice of East: It’s Time To Clarify The Dynamics Of The New Cold War By Andrew Korybko Here’s the full English-language version of the interview that I gave to Victor M. Rodriguez about the dynamics of the New Cold War, which was originally... Read More › - Voice of East
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Ballooning Paranoia: The China Threat Hits the Skies

Kim Petersen: Hysteria over balloons is a strange thing. Hot air balloons made their appearance during the Napoleonic era, where they served as delivery weapons for bombs and undertook surveillance tasks. High altitude balloons were also used by, of all powers, the United States during the 1950s, for reasons of gathering intelligence, though these were shot down […] The post Ballooning Paranoia: The China Threat Hits the Skies first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Kim Petersen
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Why I Am Anti-war (And What That Means)

Thomas Knapp: As the post-Russian-invasion phase of the war in Ukraine approaches the end of its first year (its previous, lower-intensity, phase blazed into military flame in 2014), I continually find my own position pigeon-holed into convenient categories by those who hold other positions on it. Some who claim to be “anti-war” accuse me of supporting Russian … Continue reading Why I Am Anti-war (And What That Means) → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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CNN Confirmed That The Balloon Incident Was A Defining Moment In The New Cold War

Voice of East: CNN Confirmed That The Balloon Incident Was A Defining Moment In The New Cold War By Andrew Korybko Whether due to a coincidental convergence of thought or after having been influenced by my analytical series on this subject, CNN’s Stephen Collinson... Read More › - Voice of East
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5th February: ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day And ‘International Day of Human Fraternity’

Voice of East: 5th February: ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day And ‘International Day of Human Fraternity’ By Our Special Correspondent Washington, DC. – Today, the world is observing the ‘International Day of Human Fraternity’ to highlight the importance of tolerance among the members of different... Read More › - Voice of East
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It’s Time To End The Charade In Kashmir

Voice of East: It’s time to end the charade in Kashmir: Dr Fai By Our Special Correspondent Islamabad – “It is clear that resolving the Kashmir dispute requires a careful evaluation of its many points of contention and addressing them one by one... Read More › - Voice of East
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Debt Ceiling: Extortion! Hostage-Taking! Irresponsibility!

Thomas Knapp: As Congress rolls out its latest theatrical production concerning the “debt ceiling,” the same old lines from the same old script are enjoying new life. New York Magazine‘s Jonathan Chait calls Republican noises about perhaps not just automatically supporting increased government borrowing “extortion”  and a “blatant violation of democratic legitimacy” (because, as you no doubt … Continue reading Debt Ceiling: Extortion! Hostage-Taking! Irresponsibility! → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Human Rights Watch Joined The Ranks Of Amnesty International By Exposing Kiev’s War Crimes

Voice of East: Human Rights Watch Joined The Ranks Of Amnesty International By Exposing Kiev’s War Crimes By Andrew Korybko The US-led West’s Mainstream Media is predictably silent and appears to be deliberately ignoring this “politically inconvenient” report. Drawing attention to it would erode... Read More › - Voice of East
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