Month: June 2022

The Lethality of the Global Monroe Doctrine

From its attacks on Global South countries to its willingness to go to war with a great power such as Russia, the U.S. is increasingly employing military force to compensate for its economic decline, writes Vijay Prashad.

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Last Tango in Washington?

Michael Brenner sizes up the scale of the West’s blunder in trying to use a crisis in Ukraine as the lever to bring down Putin and Russia along with him. 

The US Left & War in Ukraine

Lawrence Davidson says Matthew Duss, Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy adviser, denies his own country’s role in bringing about Russia’s war in Ukraine.   

The Hierarchy of Tribalisms

Westerners should forget about liberating Ukraine, writes Jonathan Cook. First we need to liberate our own minds so we can acknowledge our threatening presence in the world.