Feb. 22—A common thread underlies a span of events this week—from the “Rage Against the War Machine” rally in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 19, to the Feb. 21 Schiller Institute event on the urgent need to lift the sanctions on Syria, to the UN Security Council discussion of the Nord Stream explosions, to CGTN discussing with a Schiller Institute coordinator about the Nord Stream bombings, to Wednesday’s challenge to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries by José Vega, to Thursday’s Schiller Institute event on investigating the Nord Stream revelations in order to stop World War, to the upcoming anti-war, anti-NATO events this coming weekend Feb. 25-26 across Europe.