Author: Gary Wilson

Nato air exercises
U.S. / NATO war

U.S. launches ‘practice’ nuclear bombing of Europe

October 19, 2022 Gary Wilson
On Oct. 17, NATO aircraft and personnel started a “practice” nuclear strike mission in Europe, code-named Steadfast Noon. Aircraft armed with “disabled” U.S.-made B61 tactical nuclear bombs — similar to the roughly 150 B61 nukes […]
Himars
U.S. / NATO war

U.S., NATO to expand arms industry, ramp up production

October 7, 2022 Gary Wilson
War and industrial policy War means industry. Wars are not fought with global supply chains that crisscross a world where production happens across borders and oceans. War means preparing an industrial base for armaments — […]
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U.S. / NATO war

An act of war: Nord Stream pipelines bombed

October 6, 2022 Gary Wilson
You didn’t see it in the U.S. monopoly-controlled media, but throughout the month of September, there were mass demonstrations in Germany, the Czech Republic, France, Spain, Moldova and Belgium. A hundred thousand in Berlin; 70,000 […]
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U.S. / NATO war

Biden adds billions in Ukraine ‘aid,’ pushing total to $70 billion

September 14, 2022 Gary Wilson
The people of Jackson, Mississippi, have toxic sludge coming out of their kitchen faucets. In some neighborhoods, there isn’t enough water pressure to flush toilets. They’ve gotten, at most, the distracted attention of President Joe […]
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China

Biden escalates with $1.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan

September 1, 2022 Gary Wilson
The Biden administration is set to ramp up its arms sales to Taiwan with numbers that suggest Ukraine levels of escalation. “The Biden administration plans to formally ask Congress to approve an estimated $1.1 billion […]
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Around the world

Mikhail Gorbachev died

August 31, 2022 Gary Wilson
Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30. His legacy? Under Gorbachev, the Soviet economy fell into recession as the government began to dismantle the planned economy. Under Gorbachev, socialist industry was dismantled. Russia’s GDP dropped by 40%. […]
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U.S. / NATO war

Biden to name Ukraine war general

August 30, 2022 Gary Wilson
President Joe Biden is planning to declare Ukraine an official U.S. military operation, the Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal reports, making it a separate command with its own general. Should Biden do that, it would […]
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In the U.S.

Largest arms transfer in history: Biden escalates U.S. proxy war in Ukraine

August 25, 2022 Gary Wilson
While announcing a minimal $10,000 student debt relief plan, Biden announced another $3 billion additional military expansion in Ukraine.  Earlier this month, when Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer said the debt relief plan should […]
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Around the world

The assassination of Shinzo Abe and Japan’s military expansion

July 18, 2022 Gary Wilson
The assassination of Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, on July 8 maybe stirred some memories of the period of government by assassination in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. It was a […]
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Capitalist crisis

Capitalist profit drive fuels war, inflation, wage loss

June 15, 2022 Gary Wilson
 President Joe Biden used the phrase “Putin’s price hike” again in a reaction to the June 10 Consumer Price Index report revealing continued high inflation. Biden isn’t a comedian, like that guy Zelensky in […]