Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Nord Stream 2 – US Sanctions – Trump’s Economic Suicide?

December 31, 2019 Peter Koeing, Journal-neo.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Sanctions

Nord Stream 2 is an under-water pipeline crossing from Kingisepp in Russia to Greifswald in Germany, under the Baltic sea. Its cost is estimated at more than US$ 100 billion. It parallels Nord stream 1 (see map), and is supposed to make Germany energy secure, especially once Germany exits from nuclear energy. After the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany has already permanently shut down eight of its 17 reactors and pledged to close the rest by the end of 2022.

Time To Tell The Truth About US-Russia Relations And Ban-The-Bomb

December 28, 2019 By Alice Slater, Nuclearban.us Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Nuclear Weapons, Russia

August 6 and 9 mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused the deaths of up to 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. Today, with the U.S. decision to walk away from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) negotiated with the Soviet Union, we are once again staring into the abyss of one of the most perilous nuclear challenges since the height of the Cold War.

Why Trump Is Winding Up Tensions With North Korea

December 27, 2019 Finian Cunningham, Strategic-culture.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, North Korea, Trump Administration

After 18 months of on-off diplomacy with North Korea, the Trump administration seems determined now to jettison the fragile talk about peace, reverting to its earlier campaign of “maximum pressure” and hostility. It’s a retrograde move risking a disastrous war. In a visit to China this week, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Chinese leader Xi Jinping both urged for greater momentum in the diplomatic process with North Korea, saying that renewed tensions benefit no-one. The two leaders may need to revise that assertion. Tensions greatly benefit someone – Washington.

Top Syrian Official Says US Has ‘Absolutely No Right’ To Occupy Or Plunder Nation’s Oil Fields

December 27, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Syria

Citing U.S. President Donald Trump's openly stated plan to maintain a troop presence in Syria with the sole purpose of plundering the country's oil reserves, a top Syrian government official said America has "absolutely no right" to the nation's natural resources and warned of "popular opposition and operations" against foreign occupiers. "It is our oil," Bouthaina Shaaban, a political and media adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, told NBC News in an interview Tuesday. "He's talking about stealing it," Shaaban said of Trump.

An End To The World As We Know It?

December 27, 2019 Philip Giraldi, Unz.com Educate! Electoral Politics, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Wars and Militarism

At the end of the nineteenth century, Lord Palmerston stated what he thought was obvious, that “England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests.” Palmerston was saying that national interests should drive the relationships with foreigners. A nation will have amicable relations most of the time with some countries and difficult relations with some others, but the bottom line should always be what is beneficial for one’s own country and people.

In A Real War With Russia And China, US Superiority Will End

December 26, 2019 By Pepe Escobar, Consortiumnews.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Militarism and War, Russia

Once in a blue moon an indispensable book comes out making a clear case for sanity in what is now a post-MAD world. That’s the responsibility carried by “The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs,” by Andrei Martyanov (Clarity Press), arguably the most important book of 2019. Martyanov is the total package — and he comes with extra special attributes as a top-flight Russian military analyst, born in Baku in those Back in the U.S.S.R. days, living and working in the U.S., and writing and blogging in English.

U.S. Media Bias Creates False Pictures Of Russia

December 26, 2019 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda, Russia

The NYT can claim that Russia's GDP is smaller than Italy's because it only looked at the nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of those countries. But nominal GDP like nominal wages are not meaningful comparisons. The question is how much can be bought for each nominal unit. Andrei Martyanov has recently looked at two quite comparable houses, one near Moscow and one near Washington DC. The Russian house costs some $93,000 while the U.S. one is offered for $440,000...

US Military Convoy Enters Oil Fields In Northeast Syria

December 21, 2019 Staff, Presstv.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Oil, Syria, US military

The United States sent new deployments to the Syrian provinces of Hasakah and Dayr al-Zawr from neighboring Iraq on Sunday, according to the state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV. The US vehicles were carrying logistical equipment that would be provided to the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish militant group, in the eastern countryside of Dayr al-Zawr. Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu Agency said the convoy contained 4x4 pickups, ambulances, minibuses and 100 rigs filled with fuel oil.

The US Approves Bill That May Legislate Hybrid Warfare On Venezuela

December 21, 2019 Nino Pagliccia, Oneworld.press Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

In a nutshell, we can safely say that the US government will make large amounts of US taxpayers' money available for regime change in Venezuela under the guise of “humanitarian relief” for a crisis that the US government created to start with. On December 16, both houses in the US approved the appropriation bill to be signed by President Trump. Aside from the mind-boggling amount of $1.4 trillion that was approved in total our interest was in looking at the details concerning Venezuela. A press release issued by the organization Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) is quite misleading...

The Real Lesson Of Afghanistan Is That Regime Change Does Not Work

December 21, 2019 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Nationofchange.org Educate! Afghanistan, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Regime Change

The trove of U.S. “Lessons Learned” documents on Afghanistan published by the Washington Post portrays, in excruciating detail, the anatomy of a failed policy, scandalously hidden from the public for 18 years. The “Lessons Learned” papers, however, are based on the premise that the U.S. and its allies will keep intervening militarily in other countries, and that they must, therefore, learn the lessons of Afghanistan to avoid making the same mistakes in future military occupations.

Behind The U.S. Anti-China Campaign

December 21, 2019 Sara Flounders, Workers.org Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

In order to evaluate the claims of massive human rights violations of the Uyghurs, an ethnic and religious minority in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, it is important to know a few facts. Xinjiang Province in the far western region of China is an arid, mountainous and still largely underdeveloped region. Xinjiang has significant oil and mineral reserves and is currently China’s largest natural-gas-producing region. It is home to a number of diverse ethnic groups, including Turkic-speaking Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetans, Tajiks, Hui and Han peoples.

US Tests INF-Banned Missile After Democrats Rubber-Stamp Trump’s Nuclear Build-Up

December 21, 2019 Andre Damon, Wsws.org Educate! Democrats, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Nuclear Weapons

The US Air Force has for the first time tested a ballistic missile that violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in a threat to Russia and China. The Trump administration withdrew from the INF treaty in August as part of its efforts to vastly expand the US arsenal of nuclear weapons and loosen restrictions on their use. The test comes just days after House Democrats voted for a massive military spending bill that stripped out language limiting the Trump administration’s ability to develop and deploy new nuclear weapons.

Militarism: The Delusion Lives

December 20, 2019 Robert C. Koehler, Peacevoice.info Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Wars and Militarism

“The money just isn’t there” for virtually anything that matters — you know, healthcare for all, free college tuition, clean water, eco-sustainable energy production — but we’ve sold the national soul to the war god so long ago that the perfunctory, bipartisan passage of the National Defense Authorization Act comes and goes every year with, at most, a few marginal cries of outrage and a big shrug from the media. This year the NDAA came with a few extra stocking-stuffers for the warmongers and profiteers.

Our Nuclear Arms Obsession Is A Countdown To Extinction

December 20, 2019 Helen Caldicott, Independentaustralia.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Nuclear Weapons, US military

I WRITE THIS PIECE as a physician expertly trained to make accurate diagnoses to either cure the patient or to alleviate their symptoms. I, therefore, approach the viability of life on Earth from a similar and honest perspective. Hence, for some, this may be an extremely provocative article but as the planet is in the intensive care unit, we have no time to waste and the startling truth must be accepted. As TS Elliott wrote so long ago, ‘This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper’.

Pentagon Chiefs Say US Troops To Stay In Syria For Years

December 19, 2019 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Pentagon, Syria, US military

Barely two months after US President Donald Trump’s demagogic announcement that he was pulling US troops out of northeastern Syria to fulfill his campaign promise to bring a halt to Washington’s “endless wars,” the senior civilian and uniformed Pentagon chiefs told a House panel Wednesday that there is no foreseeable end to the American presence there. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley maintained in their testimony to the House Armed Services Committee that the US military was staying in Syria to assure the “enduring defeat” of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and that the fulfillment of that goal is likely years away.

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