EDITOR—A confluence of historical factors—many self-inflicted—is finally wounding the Hegemon seriously, hopefully fatally, explains Garland in this compelling analysis of the events and forces leading to the probable collapse of the US empire in the near future. Humanity should rejoice, and that certainly includes the US and Western world populations.
WAR Mongers & Profiteers
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Panel: A Normal Day at the UNO / 77th Session
6 minutes readBILLY BOB and the panel discuss the major events at the UN, and the possible takeaways from a session that exposes ever more clearly the rapid rotting, hypocrisy and mediocrity of the Western order.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Stoltenberg’s remarks would probably have been classified as Russian propaganda by plutocrat-funded “disinformation experts” and imperial “fact checkers” if it had been said online by someone like you or me, but because it came from the head of NATO as part of a screed against the Russian president it’s been allowed to pass through without objection.
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Blinken: US Does Not Oppose Ukrainian Attacks Inside Russia With US-Supplied Missiles
26 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—In an article published in Antiwar this past July titled “ATACMS: Be Very Afraid of This Acronym,” West Suburban Peace Coalition president Walt Zlotow wrote that this missile system “has potential to draw the US and NATO into all out war with Russia”
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Harpal Brar and Caleb Maupin: Roots of Imperialist War & the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
145 mins readEDITOR—Harpal Brar, Caleb Maupin and Joti Brar discuss the nature of Imperialist war, the importance of revolutionary defeatism, and the fact that Imperialist war isn’t an aberration within capitalism, but an inevitability while capitalism holds sway over the world. The panel also looks at the effect of the emergence of nuclear weapons on the international communist movement, the gain and subsequent loss, thanks to soviet ingenuity in Russia and China, of the monopoly of nuclear armaments by the US empire, and how revisionism used the fear of nuclear doom to undermine the necessity of continued class war.