Debra Sweet | March 10, 2023 March 20 2023: 20 Years Since the U.S. launched “shock & awe” on the people of Iraq There is no way to exaggerate how profoundly the…
Category: The Expanding War on the World
Where is all this going?
Debra Sweet | Feburary 24, 2023 Yesterday I was listening to Brian Lehrer’s politics show on WNYC, the NPR station, on the year anniversay of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The guest was…
Questioning assumptions about the war over Ukraine
Debra Sweet | Feburary 14, 2023 Readers of this message are uniformly horrified at the suffering of the Ukrainian people over the last year in what I believe is a proxy war…
State of the union is based on global war
Debra Sweet | Feburary 9, 2023 Based on what Biden said in his State of the Union address last night, one would not learn basic features of how this Union functions, or…
Crossing ‘red’ lines
Debra Sweet | January 31, 2023 Since we live in the U.S., our concern must be over the dangerous, reckless actions this government is taking in its proxy war with Russia over…
Congress as a War Prop
Debra Sweet | December 22, 2022 Last week, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies discussed their book, War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, here in NYC. This week, things further worsened…
The U.S. wars we don’t see
Debra Sweet | November 16, 2022 The U.S. war “of” terror laid bare the unlimited ambitions of the U.S. to wage war unlimited by national boundaries or time, going to the “dark…
Beyond “America” to the world
Debra Sweet | November 1, 2022 It seems months of negotiations took place for 30 U.S. House members (not including Bernie Sanders) to produce and submit a very mild request to Biden to negotiate…
Which “side” are we on?
Debra Sweet | October 20, 2022 I received a significant number of replies to my “question” of October 5 on the role of the U.S. as first user of nuclear weapons. Here’s a reply…
A Question
Debra Sweet | October 4, 2022 The New York Times and people who speak in the interests of Western imperialism say Putin won’t use nukes against Ukraine because “his country could become an international…