ERIC ZUESSE—His best-selling book, about China versus America, Destined for War, closes the second paragraph of its Preface: “China and the United States are currently on a collision course for war — unless both parties take difficult and painful actions to avert it.” That’s a lie: Only the U.S. regime is on a course for war — against China — and he is propagandizing for it.
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RT—The battle for Artyomovsk – a major stronghold and logistics hub for Kiev’s forces in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) – has been underway for months, being described by some as the fiercest in the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Earlier this week, Russian officials said the encirclement of the city had almost been completed and reported heavy street battles inside it.
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PAUL EDWARDS—Capitalism, the most powerful engine of wealth generation in history, has assumed a mythic character of permanence, an aura of inevitability, that has raised humanity’s belief in it to the level of a sanctified religion.
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P. GREANVILLE—Nothing here about its true national security/academic/CIA/State Department parentage and management, nor its mission to produce and disseminate constant disinformation on America’s true foreign policy objectives and methods. That Foreign Affairs, like the rest of the US media, upends reality routinely and shamelessly is a given: literally, everything published by FA is a lie, a revolting lie at that, or a deformation of fact so grotesque as to be useless.
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Why It’s Wrong to Blame ‘Humanity’ in the Abstract for Climate Change, w/ Justin Podur
2 minutes readRANIA KHALEK—It’s widely accepted that humans are driving climate change and environmentalism has become mainstream. But what if “humanity” in the abstract isn’t to blame? Is it true that humans are inherently bad for nature? What if the real culprit is the systems we’re forced to operate under — capitalism, imperialism, colonialism— perpetrated by particular sections of humanity over others? So who, or what is to blame is really to blame for climate change?