Gary Wilson – Page 21 – Struggle

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 […]

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%. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ukraine ‘aid’: Congress pays off military-industrial capitalists

May 28, 2022 Gary Wilson

Has there ever been a more corrupt Congress? Democrats and Republicans alike. On May 19, the U.S. Congress approved an additional $40 billion in “aid” to Ukraine, added to the roughly $14 billion of Ukraine […]

Dollar dominoes

May 1, 2022 Gary Wilson

Will Washington’s seizure of $300 billion Russian assets end domination of dollar as global currency? On Feb. 26, the U.S. blocked Russia’s access to over $300 billion in foreign reserves held in banks in the […]

Washington’s economic war on Russia (and Germany)

April 27, 2022 Gary Wilson

In February, President Joe Biden made it clear that the U.S./NATO military escalation in Europe was not about Ukraine. Since taking office in 2021, President Biden has been more focused on Germany and Russia, in […]

NATO military expansion to target Russia and China, says top official

April 19, 2022 Gary Wilson

As the U.S. and its NATO satellites flood weapons into Ukraine, NATO is being “transformed” into a fighting force capable of direct wars on Russia and China, says NATO General-Secretary Jens Stoltenberg. NATO formally launched […]