Newsweek 2.5.23 A new agreement under discussion might allow the U.S. to fund significant military infrastructure in the newly-minted NATO nation.
Intervje med Matti Pesu mm.
An Air Force program shows how the Pentagon is starting to embrace the potential of a rapidly emerging technology, with far-reaching implications for war-fighting tactics, military culture and the defense industry.
These are not experimental test vehicles, and this is not a drill. Many of San Francisco’s ghostly driverless cars are commercial robotaxis, directly competing with taxis, Uber and Lyft, and public transit. They are a real, albeit still marginal, part of the city’s transportation system. And the companies that operate them, Cruise and Waymo, appear poised to continue expanding their services in San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, and perhaps even Los Angeles in the coming months.
Suomessa voi tulevaisuudessa liikkua amerikkalaisia sotilaita - muutenkin kuin harjoituksissa. Suomi neuvottelee historiallisesta puolustussopimuksesta Yhdysvaltain kanssa. Suomen suurimman vientialan eli teknologiateollisuuden näkymät ovat painuneet synkiksi. Puolustusvälinevalmistus kuitenkin kasvaa. Ukrainalaiset ovat ylittäneet Dneprjoen - Kiovassa ihmiset vannovat kovaa taistelutahtoa. Ecuadorissa on murhattu presidenttiehdokas - maahan on julistettu hätätila. Tapaamme myös taiteilija Kustaa Saksin, joka saa suuriin tekstiiliteoksiinsa inspiraatioita muun muassa migreenikohtauksistaan.
Recension av "Oppenheimer" i Jacobin: [av Leigh Phillips is a science writer and EU affairs journalist. He is the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts.]
"But even if in the film it’s the radicals who appear to have the first misgivings, it would be a mistake to think that it was the political right that approved of the bombing and only the Left who opposed it. The newspaper of the CPUSA, the Daily Worker, declared after the bombing that the Allies were lucky to have found struck “before the enemy can devise countermeasures.” The paper went on: “So let us not greet our atomic device with a shudder, but with the elation and admiration which the genius of man deserves.” Perhaps, one might counter, such calculation is to be expected from Stalinists. Yet the non-Stalinist but still progressive magazines The Nation and the New Republic felt little differently. Nation editor Freda Kirchwey wrote at the time: “The suffering, the wholesale slaughter it entailed, have been outweighed by its spectacular success.”
Few escaped the twentieth century with their honor intact, although it’s noteworthy that it was the more religious side of the liberal-left who was the first to mark their disquiet at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As historian Paul Boller noted, it was in fact the social gospel–oriented Catholic weekly Commonweal and its protestant counterpart Christian Century that straight out of the gate argued that the bombings had destroyed the nation’s moral position in the world.
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sista stycket: Det finns återigen en antydan i Nolans film. Det ursprungliga löftet om gränslös frigörelse från dominans - vare sig från andra människor eller från resten av naturen - som gavs när modernitetens tre världar förenades under 1900-talets första år, har inte svikits så mycket som det har lämnats ouppfyllt. Det som Oppie och Rabi och resten av efterkrigstidens progressiva motståndare till kärnvapenspridning strävade efter - en internationalistisk egalitarism utan CPUSA:s dogmer och falska vissheter, där hela världen drog nytta av kärnkraften men kärnvapen var förbjudna - förblir målet.
US lawmakers say the alliance’s movement into Asia is “inevitable.” It’s actually a completely avoidable, completely bad idea.
"In 2007, retired colonel Joseph Núñez, then serving in civilian capacity in Iraq, called not so much for NATO’s expansion as its multiplication, specifically “a minimum of six” NATO clones for Africa, the Asia-Pacific, South Asia, the Middle East, and North and South America each.
“While states may have legitimate concerns about things like sovereignty, the alternative to constructive cooperation is the wildfire of anarchy,” he wrote.
The alliance’s end-of-history aimlessness drove this thinking, all the way up to Stoltenberg’s conception of NATO today as a worldwide arsenal of democracy."
It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian "old friend of China" Henry Kissinger in Beijing.
Luttwak vs Kissinger (and Brzezinsky)
David Swanson in Rome, juli 2023: The U.S. Embassy on Via Veneto has a rainbow flag, but it’s very carefully a modified rainbow flag to indicate support for LGBT rights. The British Embassy in Rome hasn’t quite caught on, and displays a simple rainbow flag, accidentally indicating its support for peace — a popular concept in Italy in a way not immediately familiar to someone from the United States or the United Kingdom. Bookstore windows in Italy — I mean, mainstream, corporate, including airport bookstore windows — display something no native English speaker would recognize or immediately believe possible: a book advocating the abolition of war, a book called Guerra alla Guerra by Matteo Pucciarelli, a book that includes the perspectives of actual peace activists, those mythical creatures that U.S. corporateland pretends do not exist — some of the very same Italian peace activists, in fact, who spoke this past weekend on a global 24-hour peace wave (see part 12). Yes, even a war abolition book by the Pope is disappeared by U.S. culture. Find me a Barnes & Noble in the United States with a war abolition book in the front window and I will eat it, page by page.
The USA maintains a massive network of foreign military bases around the world. Some are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them oppressive. Learn more about these bases. #WorldBEYONDWar
Naomi Klein, The Guardian , June 14, 2023.- Given the strengths that Kennedy possesses as a candidate, we should expect him to continue to build momentum. Ignoring him is not an option
A. Okulicz-Kozaryn. Journal of Happiness Studies, 12 (2):
225-243(2011)First published online: February 11, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-010-9188-8. (Eurobarometer).