Peace is good for #StrongmanCapitalism, bad for the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex: Iran and Saudi Arabia have effectively fought a devastating proxy war in #Yemen, where #Houthi rebels aligned with Tehran battled Saudi forces for eight years.

#BRICSPolitics #NonAlignedMovement #NewColdWar #PeaceDividend #ClintonWasTheWorstPresident #CarbonBombKleptocracies

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/11/us/politics/saudi-arabia-iran-china-biden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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#Kleptocracy #BeyondBelief: The crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is "beyond belief," says #humanitarian leader Jan Egeland of Norway. "Nowhere else in the world is there more than 25 million people experiencing #violence, #hunger, #disease, #neglect."

#ResourceTheft #NewColdWar #DeterioratingCarbonSinks

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/7/democratic_republic_congo_conflict_jan_egeland

> 44% of the world’s oceans are experiencing a marine heatwave.

> since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the US has put more carbon into the atmosphere, by far, than any other country. While the new technologies sustained by fossil fuels improved our standard of living, we laid the groundwork for the climate calamity the planet is now experiencing.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/21/us-bernie-sanders-china-climate-change-cooperation
#BernieSanders #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #China #TheUSA #NewColdWar #ComingWarOnChina
/HT #DavidSwanson

@SocraticEthics ⬆️ “The #TajikBanker Who Knew Too Much” sounds like a #NewColdWar movie 🎥.

"The U.S. government seems to be operating under the assumption that Modi’s India can sustain the country as it decouples from Chinese manufacturing. There is little reason to believe that is true."

This is also a region that will be hammered first by the #climatecatastrophe . Northern #Europe must be ready to welcome many #ClimateRefugees from there.

#china #india #us #newcoldwar

Inter-capitalist conflict.

"What’s slowly becoming clear, however, is that the old capitalist class doesn’t seem willing to go down without a fight. Indeed, we may be on the verge of a new historical class struggle: the owners of the means of production against the owners of the means of destruction."

https://unherd.com/2023/06/the-capitalists-are-revolting-over-china/

#china #usa #newcoldwar #capitalism

#ukraine #russia #china #newcoldwar

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-built-armored-trucks-make-appearance-in-chechnya-33af6e4a (https://archive.ph/Bl3Kl)

An average of 62% of #Europeans would want to remain neutral if a #war is started between the #US and #China according to this recent poll.

However a majority of us were against the disastrous Second Gulf war and yet our leaders forced us in to it.

#newcoldwar #taiwan

“Totalitarian regimes destroy independent media in order to establish control over society through propaganda.”

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/06/08/russian-journalists-address-tech-companies-worldwide-ask-not-to-let-telegram-youtube-to-be-blocked-in-russia-en-news

#Russia #censorship #MediaLit #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate #NewColdWar

That very rare thing: a contemporary #us insider talking about #china outside the framing of the #newcoldwar. Someone who actually knows China as well. My #classposition is the opposite of John Thorton's, but intelligent and outspoken #capitalists are worth listening to. I recommend the entire interview - you will learn more about China and the US and their relationship than a year's worth of opinion pieces in our media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgUX82Vh_8I

#usa #ccp

Remember, we are talking here about keeping the number of climate refugees closer to 600 million than to 2 billion. An enormous reduction in damage and suffering, that is still possible.

#climateCatastrophies #climateJustice #newColdWar

“Our relationship with China is far too important to be put at risk by failing to clearly set the terms of a healthy engagement. … I believe it is neither viable – nor in Europe's interest – to decouple from China.”—EU President https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_23_2063
#eu #china #derisk #newcoldwar

Awesome! Could things have gone differently? #NewColdWar #OneWorld https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1027-order-opportunity.aspx

An Arctic ‘Cold War’? Ukraine and climate change are driving tensions.

#russia
#china
#authoritarianism
#newcoldwar https://www.grid.news/story/360/2023/02/09/is-an-arctic-cold-war-coming-how-climate-change-and-the-war-in-ukraine-are-driving-tensions/

Balloons!
Balloons!
Balloons balloons balloons.
Hot air.
Credulous journos.
#newcoldwar
#ffs
(That's the #irish 'Fer fecks sake' not the other one.)

1950s —> the bomber gap.
1960s —> the missile gap.
2020s —> the balloon gap!

#NewColdWar

Militarized #Japan and the Biden -Kishida Summit Signal Moment in the New Cold War by Joseph Gerson
Jan 10, 2023

Across the Indo-Pacific, as well as in the escalating Ukraine War, humanity stands an accident or miscalculation away from the calamity of nuclear war.

#Japan #NuclearWar #Kishida #Biden #NewColdWar #commondreams

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/militarized-japan-biden-kishida

Militarized Japan and the #Biden - #Kishida Summit Signal Moment in the New Cold War by Joseph Gerson
Jan 10, 2023

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/militarized-japan-biden-kishida

#militarization #Japan #NewColdWar #JosephGerson

@perrenod @jimstewartson #newcoldwar? I thought the old one never really ended. Funny how in those 80s movies (marketed to us Gen Xers) like Red Dawn, we imagined Russians parachuting down on us, attacking in the middle of the US, to bisect it & conquer. In reality in the 1980s/90s, Russian mobsters were just moving into Trump’s crime dorm in Manhattan (overpaying for real estate to launder their blood money).

@jimstewartson Bingo, some of us grew up in the Cold War and were attuned to treating Russian propaganda as propaganda. The populace has become naive since the Wall fell. #newcoldwar