That’s how important I think this is. “Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy…
Dear Readers of Sierra Voices: I feel that I owe you all an apology for turning this journal from a nice little regional publication, concerned mostly with local issues (things we can actually do something about, like the effort by a Canadian penny-stock mining company to re-open the Idaho-Maryland Mine in Grass Valley, California)…
JEFFREY D. SACHS During the disastrous Vietnam War, it was said that the US government treated the public like a mushroom farm: keeping it in the dark and feeding it with manure. The heroic Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers documenting the unrelenting U.S. government lying about the war in order to protect politicians who…
These remarks by Dmitri Orlov make sense. He noticed how socially isolated Zelensky looked at the recent NATO summit in Vilnius, and concluded that the West is starting to distance itself from Zelensky precisely because Ukraine is losing the war with Russia. This is not good advertising for NATO, which needs to maintain the…
By Jeffrey Sachs Reprinted with permission of the author The American people urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine and its current prospects. Unfortunately, the mainstream media ––The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN –– have become mere mouthpieces of the government, repeating US…