The question is not simply how much we spend on defence, but what we understand defence and security to mean, says SIMON BRIGNELL
THE world wants to see an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
The Nato countries, however, want to prolong the conflict by increasing arms shipments to Ukraine and by declaring that they want to “weaken Russia.”
The United States had already allocated $13.6 billion to arm Ukraine. US President Joe Biden has just requested another $33bn.
CARLOS MARTINEZ responds to liberal hawk Simon Tisdall’s evidence-free China-bashing and asks whose agenda it really serves
CARLOS MARTINEZ shows how EU, Israel and US shenanigans were used in an attempt to destabilise Spain’s mildly socialist government
ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD



