Archive for June 27th, 2024

27/06/2024

Why Won’t the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service*

For goodness’ sake, negotiate!

For the fifth time since 2008, Russia has proposed to negotiate with the U.S. over security arrangements, this time in proposals made by President Vladimir Putin on June 14, 2024.

Four previous times, the U.S. rejected the offer of negotiations in favor of a neocon strategy to weaken or dismember Russia through war and covert operations.

Jeffrey D. SachsThe U.S. neocon tactics have failed disastrously, devastating Ukraine in the process, and endangering the whole world. After all the warmongering, it’s time for Biden to open negotiations for peace with Russia.

Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. grand strategy has been to weaken Russia. As early as 1992, then Defense Secretary Richard Cheney opined that following the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union, Russia too should be dismembered.

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27/06/2024

Worse Than Genocide: Killing Truth

Human Wrongs Watch

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ATLANTA, Georgia, Jun 26 2024 (IPS)** There have been many genocides throughout history, but the first to be displayed on TV in all its sickening horror before the entire world is the Israeli genocide against the civilians of Gaza.
 

Destruction in northern Gaza. Credit: UNRWA

Truth is the first casualty of war, so it’s no surprise that the slick Israeli propaganda machine has managed to make Israel’s slaughter of 37,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 15,000 children, acceptable to multitudes of Americans.

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