New fromPeace & Planet News: lying us into wars, how America controls Europe, Daniel Ellsberg and humanizing the enemy, timeline in Ukraine, andmuch more.
By Matthew Hoh Regardless of which side we support, the reality is that war is a force outside of human control, one that will make our righteousness and morality an agent of its destruction.
By Thomas Fazi One of the tenets of the realist school of international relations is the “rational-actor assumption”: the notion that states, or at least great powers, think and act strategically, in a manner that they believe will advance their own interests.
By Joe Lauria Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story. But the establishment hits back at journalists, like at Consortium News, who try to tell it now.
By Caitlin Johnstone Reality is nondual. There’s no real separation between the perceiver and that which is perceived, or between any of the objects in sense perception. All is indivisible.
By Robert Koehler It isn’t just the Pentagon Papers that matter, but also Ellsberg’s transformation, his awareness that the harm the war was doing, the innocent people it was killing, the unending hell it was creating, mattered.