One Western Official Finally Comes Clean About NATO Expansion

TedGalen Carpenter

September 26, 2023

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg likely surprised both factions in the ongoing debate about NATO expansion and its role in triggering the Russia-Ukraine War. He also undermined (perhaps fatally) the official cover story about the reasons for the Ukraine war. Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion, Western officials and their allies in the corporate media have insisted vehemently that the alliance’s addition of Eastern European nations after the Cold War and giving a pledge to Ukraine that it would become a member someday had nothing to do with Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack his neighbor. Indeed, anyone who argued otherwise risked being accused of echoing Russian propaganda and being “Putin’s puppet.”

 

Ukraine asked West to strike Iran and Syria – Guardian

RT
27 Sep, 2023

Kiev was reportedly willing to conduct missile attacks on both nations if its Western backers supplied “the necessary means of destruction”

“I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been”: Musings on Communism and Anti-Communism

JonahRaskin

September 29, 2023

If you grew up in the 1950s, as I did in a lefty American family, the name Joseph McCarthy elicited as much loathing as that of John Wilkes Booth and Benito Mussolini. The zeitgeist of the late 1940s and early 1950s—fueled by the Cold War—were, as troubadour Peter Seeger sang, while he strummed the banjo, “a terrible time,” though it was also, he added, “a wonderful time.” A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens’s novel of the French Revolution, begins on a similar note:  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

US House Rejects Cluster-Bomb Ban

BrettWilkins

September 28, 2023

Democrats and Republicans turned down the chance to stop the export of weapons that harm and kill civilians long after military campaigns are over.

ایرانیان مقیم آمریکا

حدود دو میلیون ایرانی‌ در آمریکا زندگی‌ میکنند. از این تعداد، نزدیک یک میلیون در کالیفرنیای جنوبی مقیم هستند، و بیش از بیست درصد از ساکنین بورلی‌هیلز ایرانی‌ میباشند. اکثر ایرانیانی که در خارج از کالیفرنیا مقیم هستند، در ایالت‌های نیو‌یورک، نیو‌جرزی، واشنگتن، ماساچوست، و تکزاس زندگی‌ میکنند.ا

مفهوم «جامعه بشری با سرنوشت مشترک» چیست؟

آیا تا به حال فکر کرده‌اید که آینده بشر چه خواهد بود؟ همراه با مجری ما آناهیتا از دل تاریخ به عصر حاضر پای بگذارید و در کنار مشاهده آینده، امکان‌های بی حد و مرز پیش روی جامعه بشری با سرنوشت مشترک را کشف کنید

https://persian.cri.cn/2023/09/26/ARTIbGjKqBC8y1ZLzslHhoDf230926.shtml 

'Truly Historic' Youth-Led Climate Case Arrives at European Human Rights Court

Julia Conley

Sep 27, 2023

Six Portuguese young people are suing the governments of 33 countries, arguing their human rights have been violated by a widespread failure to mitigate the climate crisis.

Iran’s Denials and Delusions at the United Nations

Fariba Amini

September 26, 2023

Frankly, it was hard to watch last weekend’s interview of Farid Zakaria of CNN with Iran’s current president, Raisi. It was embarrassing.