NATO and its defenders claim it is strictly an alliance of “collective Western defense.”. But a review of its history finds that it has, for more than 50 years, plotted and backed military actions against liberation movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Indeed, NATO’s existence is a recipe for more frequent military conflict and confrontation.
India and Pakistan need to urgently initiate a dialogue on nuclear weapons, insulate it from the vagaries of politics, reduce mutual suspicion and enhance transparency
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Rightly, there’s been an outpouring of tributes to Daniel Ellsberg following the announcement of his death last Friday, aged 92. His leaking of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 revealed that Washington officials had systematically lied for decades about US military conduct in Vietnam. (Article by Jonathan Cook republished from MiddleEastEye.net) The disclosure of 7,000 pages of documents, and subsequent […]
The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality has now become completely unchecked and unaccountable.