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Alex de Waal calls for international action to halt the famines in Gaza and Sudan:

The Gaza figures are particularly shocking because, before October last year, acute malnutrition levels were about 1% and general mortality was just a quarter of the background rates in countries such as Somalia and South Sudan. Many children suffered micronutrient deficiencies, but few were underweight. After 7 October, acute food crisis indicators went off a cliff, with unparalleled speed.

And it’s a near certainty that when the death toll from hunger and disease is finally measured, it will number in the tens of thousands. In my book, Gaza counts as a famine.

The famines in Sudan and Gaza are both human-made. Stopping them requires political and humanitarian action. Justice and humanity demand calling out the men who are making them and the foreign powers that enable them.

Continue reading “Gaza Is Still Being Deliberately Starved to Death”

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

According to a recent New York Times report, the Biden Administration has discussed the idea of handing nuclear weapons over to Ukraine as it prepares to leave office. And France and the UK are discussing sending TROOPS into Ukraine!

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

On COI #717, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Ukraine and Israel.

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Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horton discusses his new book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine with the great Glenn Greenwald on System Update.

They discuss the American establishment’s enmity toward Russia, the Maidan putsch of 2014, the “low-level” war that took place between then and 2022, and the disaster since then.

Greenwald says that Scott’s book “is the definitive history of U.S. involvement in Ukraine.”

Check it out here:

In an attack piece worthy of a sensational tabloid, the New York Times is training its fire on Tulsi Gabbard, president-elect Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence. Notably, the Times does not mention Gabbard’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Rather, the Times is apoplectic that Gabbard opposes the US proxy war in Ukraine and wants better relations with Russia. The Times recycles Hillary Clinton’s slander of Gabbard as a “Russian asset.”

As evidence, the Times quotes from Gabbard tweet in February 2022, as the war in Ukraine was beginning:

“This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/NATO had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine’s becoming a member of NATO, which would mean US/NATO forces right on Russia’s border.”

Continue reading “The New York Times Attacks Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons”

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

What is the point of playing Russian roulette – with Russia?

As the Biden administration fades into oblivion, among its last decisions has been to allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with U.S.-made ATACMS, a missile with a range of 300 kilometers (190 miles). Ukraine’s recent use of these missiles brought a worrisome response from Russia: hypersonic intermediate-range missiles. If Ukraine persists in striking deeper into Russia with U.S., British, and French missiles, the Russian response will be proportionately greater, and possibly escalatory against NATO.

Here’s the thing: These missiles are too few in number to have a decisive impact on the course of the war. Ukraine isn’t going to “win” by launching ATACMS and similar tactical missiles. Yes, they can inflict more pain on Russia, hitting targets like ammunition dumps, military bases, and the like. But nobody is pretending these are war-winning weapons. All they promise is more dead bodies on both sides.

Continue reading “Playing Russian Roulette – With Russia”