International

NATO countries – also the Nordic – quietly preparing to send troops into Ukraine!

By TFF & Jan Oberg & others,* Lund, Sweden

(3 May 2024) NATO is desperate to cover up its Himalayan mistakes of

a) expanding NATO instead of creating a common European security and peace system that would have permitted us all to live in prosperity and peace today; and

b) stupidly including Ukraine in that expansion – with only a small minority of Ukrainians wanting NATO membership for their country at the time. Ukrainian and NATO elites couldn’t care less about people’s opinion – as is also well known for, e.g. Sweden's membership process.

US diplomacy gains traction in Middle East

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(26 April 2024) With the outbreak of Israel’s Gaza war six months ago, a narrative mushroomed in the morass of the low, soft marshy land of geopolitics that the United States is caught in a quagmire that would compel its retrenchment in Eurasia and severely weaken the Biden administration’s strategy in the Asia-Pacific.

A gift for NATO’s 75th anniversary – Support from France’s opposition parties

by Pierre Levy,* Paris

(26 April 2024) (CH-S) All of France’s major parties now seem to agree that NATO’s and French President Emmanuel Macron’s course of war is heading in the right direction. Opposition parties have aligned their banners with mainstream opinion. There is now hardly any serious opposition to the war policy in the French parliament. European elections are coming up and there is no longer any major party in France clearly speaking out in favour of peace and against the thriving bellicosity.

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Biden reaches out to Xi Jinping with eye on financial stability

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(19 April 2024) The salience of the phone call from the US President Joe Biden to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday [2 April] is their consensus that during the period since their summit meeting in Woodside, California, in November 2023, the US-China relationship “is beginning to stabilise”.
Statement

Six months of war leave Al-Shifa hospital in ruins

(6 April 2024 | Statement | Jerusalem/Cairo/Geneva) – A WHO-led multi-agency mission accessed Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza on 5 April to conduct a preliminary assessment of the extent of destruction and identify needs to guide future efforts to restore the facility.

The highly complex mission was conducted in close partnership with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), United Nations Department for Safety and Security (UNDSS), and in collaboration with the acting Hospital Director.

Africa on the rise: The Sahel's 'Axis of Resistance'

by Pepe Escobar,* columnist at “The Cradle”

(12 April 2024) The African Sahel is revolting against western neocolonialism – ejecting foreign troops and bases, devising alternative currencies, and challenging the old multinationals. Multipolarity, after all, cannot flower without resistance paving its path.