May 29 of this year marked the 20th International Day of UN Peacekeepers. One might think this would be a major event in countries such as the United States, which has the largest foreign military deployments in the world and the globe’s largest military budget. But this was not the …
Read More »The American Rescue Plan Act is not a paradigm shift for the working class – it is a band-aid on a gaping wound of inequality
In his first Rose Garden address since becoming US president, Joe Biden last week praised the passage of the $1.9trillion stimulus package known as the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). “It changes the paradigm,”he said. “For the first time in a long time, this bill puts working people in this …
Read More »The impasse paradigm “values”
Article Nikolai Patrushev in “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” about values is a perfect example of the deadlock of the whole paradigm of “values” about which I recently wrote. The only point of all this regular talk about “our moral values” is that in the one hundred thousandth time to say “we …
Read More »A new paradigm Lukashenko: China and the United States
Russia risks losing Central place in Belarusian politics. But Minsk could suddenly find that he is not “closest ally” of Moscow. Hard to say what you really think in Moscow on Belarusian foreign policy, but the Americans, watching from afar, has already made findings: in 2020 Alexander Lukashenko will actively …
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