Escalating technology Warfare

China responds by banning minerals export

China is responding to the latest batch of export restrictions from the Biden administration by banning the export of rare minerals and metals to the United States. These are crucial for high-tech development, and China has large quantities of them. The response escalates the tech war just before US President Donald Trump takes office, with the multibillionaire Elon Musk on his staff.

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Sanctions, a Surrogate for Warfare

Dramatic Increase in US Use of Sanctions

By: Peter M Johansen

The US has dramatically increased its use of unilateral and secondary sanctions as a foreign policy weapon over the past twenty years. And more to come with President Donald J. Trump back in the White House. Also, the EU is following suit. These sanctions violate the UN Charter and international human rights conventions, international law and humanitarian law – and is defended by showing to “our values”.

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 – I would have beaten Muhammed Ali

by Peter M. Johansen, Havana, December 1993.

Teofilo Stevenson thinks that he would have won the fight the whole world of boxing
was deprived of.

This is the first time Teofilo Stevenson goes public – and he goes public in Klassekampen, a newspaper that isn’t exactly well renowned for its sports pages.

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The meaning of October 7

The narrative of the Hamas attack one year on

By Peter M Johansen

On October 7, it was one year since the Hamas attack on military positions and well-armed kibbutzim and settlements in the southern part of Israel bordering the Gaza Strip. The attack did not happen in a vacuum, as the name Hamas gave to the operation: “Tha Al-Aqsa flood” implies. Fortsett å lese «The meaning of October 7»

On the Trail of a New World

The United States’ unipolar world is crumbling. The change is happening faster than expected for Washington. And in connection with this, the white West’s dominance which has lasted over 500 years, is disappearing. This dominance is based on genocide across multiple continents, racist and imperialist colonialism and neo-colonialism.

Simultaneously, our planet is hurtling towards a climate crisis where we face mass migration and displacement on a scale never before experienced. We risk becoming the dinosaurs of our time, without exiting with a bang. More than ever, the slogan applies: “Black and white, organise, unite and fight.”

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