Voices

• NATO Spreads Nuclear Weapons, Energy, and Risk
  By David Swanson Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty declares that NATO members will assist another member if attacked by “taking action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” But the UN Charter does not say anywhere that warmaking…
• Israel and Unit 8200: The Powerhouse of Intelligence
  By Tracy Turner The Legacy of Unit 8200 - When browsing Yandex Images, looking for artistic renderings of Zionism, it is expected to see either an Octopus strangling the Earth or an Octopus strangling the Rotunda Dome in Washington, D.C. The legacy of…
• Does Every Person in Israel Deserve to Die?
  David Swanson I fervently hope, dear reader, that you do not agree that every person in Israel deserves to die. But I know some of you do, and I hope to suggest a better way of looking at it. I know that you’re even more unlikely to agree with me that…
• What is critical global geopolitics?
  From the very pan-global perspective, the best-known geopolitical thesis is of the British Mackinder – “Heartland Thesis”. According to the thesis, the Asian “Heartland” is a pivotal area of global geopolitics. Who controls this area provides a chief…
• Asymmetric Warfare
  Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic At least from the very academic viewpoint, war is a condition of armed conflict between at least two sides (but, in fact, states). There are, historically, several types of warfare as conventional warfare, civil war, lightning…
• On the Importance of Tents
  By: Brett Redmayne-Titley. “… we see the brutal repression that we have not seen in the [US] universities...The truth is that this unprecedented brutal repression...expresses at state of panic for the western system in general.”- Bashar al-Assad. As…
• Is the Electoral Fix Already In?
  Matt Taibbi The 2024 presidential race increasingly looks like it will be decided by lawyers, not voters, as Democrats unveil plans for America's first lawfare election. The fix is in. To “protect democracy,” democracy is already being canceled. We just…
• The Frankfurt School and the Culture of Victimhood
  John Waters "When you rinse it right down, the PC/Cultural Marxist revolution has as its objective the emasculation of the white male and the eradication of all values and power systems which are laid at his door, including religion, tradition and the…
• AI Faces Its ‘Oppenheimer Moment’ During Killer Robot Arms Race
  by Jonathan Tirone Tel Aviv-based +972 Magazine reported this month that Israel was using an artificial intelligence program called “Lavender” to come up with assassination targets Regulators who want to get a grip on an emerging generation of…
• Western Weapons From Ukraine On Darknet Marketplaces
  Oriental Review Editorial The failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the prospects for a peaceful resolution of the conflict further boost the activities of arms smuggling participants at all levels. On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of…