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The Huge Elephant in the Room!

  The Chinese Embassy in Moscow has published a list of countries that the United States bombed after World War II Japan: August 6 and 9 1945  Korea and China: 1950–1953 (Korean War) Guatemala: 1954, 1960, 1967–1969 Indonesia: 1958 Cuba: 1959–1961 Congo: 1964 Laos: 1964–1973 Vietnam: 1961–1973 Cambodia: 1969–1970 Grenada: 1983 Lebanon: 1983, 1984 (attacks on targets in Lebanon and Syria) Libya: 1986, 2011, 2015 El Salvador: 1980 Nicaragua: 1980 Iran: 1987 Panama: 1989 Iraq: 1991 (Gulf War), 1991–2003 (US and British invasions), 2003–2015 Kuwait: 1991 Somalia: 1993, 2007–2008, 2011 Bosnia: 1994, 1995 Sudan: 1998 Afghanistan: 1998, 2001–2015 Yugoslavia: 1999 Yemen: 2002, 2009, 2011, 2024, 2025 Pakistan: 2007–2015 Syria: 2014–2015 This list consists of approximately 30 countries. China has stressed that "we must never forget who the real threat to the world is". Then the question arises: Has Western society ever expressed anger at the USA? Has there ever been a strong voice rais...

Escalation fears rise

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent As Russian forces battle for control of the streets in central Bakhmut waves of Russian rockets and drones hit Kiev and other key Ukrainian cities last week in what the Kremlin says was a reprisal for a deadly Ukrainian commando attack across the border earlier in the month. Meanwhile reports claiming that the Nord Stream pipelines were sabotaged by the Ukrainians have appeared in the American press and security forces say they’ve foiled a plot to kill the pro-Russian leader of Transnistria, a breakaway republic that lies between Moldova and Western Ukraine, that has been under Russian protection since the early 1990s.      Wagner forces, Russia’s ‘foreign legion’, are fighting to root out Ukrainian troops dug in the ruins of Bakhmut with orders to delay the Russian advance for as long as possible regardless of the sacrifice. But the Ukrainian command has been blowing up bridges and pulling out their most experienced units fr...

New Chinese move for peace in Ukraine

By New Worker correspondent People’s China has launched a new initiative to end the war in Ukraine with a 12-point plan that calls for a cease-fire and the resumption of peace talks between Moscow and Kiev. The Putin government has broadly welcomed the Chinese initiative. The Germans say it needs to be seriously considered amid reports that Britain, France and Germany are proposing to send Ukraine a new tranche of weapons and economic aid as a sweetener for opening up a dialogue with the Russians. And even the Ukrainians are taking it seriously. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says he wants to meet China's leader Xi Jinping to discuss Beijing's proposals on ending the war in Ukraine which he said showed that China was involved in the search for peace. But the Americans have already dismissed it out of hand.      China's plan calls for peace talks and respect for national sovereignty. However, the 12-point document does not specifically say that Russia must withdraw ...