The third "Summit for Democracy," initiated by the Biden administration of the US, is taking place in Seoul, South Korea between March 18 and 20. It's been dubbed a "triple-low summit": low public attention, low international influence, and low enthusiasm from all parties.
Twelve-year-old Rami al-Halhouli was fatally shot while playing with fireworks in a Jerusalem refugee camp
The suffering and heroism of the people of Gaza, which shines in itself, has also cast a much needed light on the complete failure of the model of Western democracy.
In his State of the Union address, Biden was the face of the U.S. imperium as it insists on prolonging itself. This is not a role with any originality or vision.
If diplomacy is to have a chance at settling this bloody conflict, then four persistent myths about the war in Ukraine need to be exposed and refuted.
If Israeli apartheid were to disappear, oil and trade would still flow from the Middle East towards the West
Taurus missiles have a range of 300 miles, and Scholz says German troops would need to be deployed to Ukraine to use them
Hope the exit of the senior State Department official will open the door to a badly needed Plan B for Ukraine.
Factoring in other costs, the true cost of military spending in 2025 will easily exceed $1.5 trillion
The US hasn't been able to send weapons to Ukraine since December
While the occurrence of "Disease X," which is gaining global attention, is difficult to avoid, the resulting pandemic can be prevented and dealt with, Wang Hesheng, director of China's National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, told a press conference on the sidelines of the two sessions on Saturday.
On Wednesday, the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration has worked to hide weapons transfers for use in Gaza by splitting them up into over 100 separate transactions falling below a minimum threshold for reporting to Congress.
Moscow has warned a Western troop deployment would make a direct Russia-NATO war inevitable
China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday excoriated a series of US' latest maneuvers that Washington says aim to "outcompete China," warning that the US' engagement in malign competition puts the fundamental interests of the Chinese and US peoples and even the future of mankind at stake and will only push the two countries toward confrontation and conflict.
The Biden administration reiterated Monday that the United States has no “red lines” for the war crimes it allows Israel to commit with US weapons, amid mounting global opposition to Israel’s genocide and deliberate starvation of the population of Gaza.
On Sunday, the New York Times published an article by David Sanger titled “Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine.” The article documents extensive and far-reaching discussions within the Biden administration in late 2022 regarding the possibility of the war with Russia turning into a nuclear conflict.
The Catholic leader has repeatedly offered to mediate peace talks to end the war
Recent disclosures provide an incomplete inventory of the West’s covert activities in Ukraine. There is more than we have been told, surely.
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