Marjorie Cohn delves into the U.S. double standard in using an international court to prosecute war crimes.
US Trashes ICC, But Wants It to Charge Russians
Category: Biden Administration
Gold Rush in Ukraine
Even before hostilities broke out, the CEOs of major weapons firms were talking about how tensions in Europe could pad their profits, William D. Hartung and Julia Gledhill report.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Great Acquiescence — Glory to Ukraine
Americans don’t merely acquiesce to the imperium’s wars, interventions, collective punishments and assorted other deprivations. They actively embrace them.
Pepe Escobar: On the Dawn of a New Global Financial System
Pepe Escobar interviews the Eurasia Economic Union’s Sergey Glazyev, a man in the eye of our current geopolitical and geo-economic hurricane.
Corporate Media’s War-Industry Pundits
Analyzing a range of TV news outlets, journalists at The Lever found viewers are often not informed when hawkish “experts” on Ukraine are employed by the weapons industry.
SCOTT RITTER: Twitter Wars—My Personal Experience in Twitter’s Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
At some point, the U.S. people, and those they elect to higher office need to bring Twitter in line with the ideals and values Americans collectively espouse when it comes to free speech and online identity protection.
Killing Civilians, from Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol
Instead of investigating its war crimes, the U.S. has actively covered them up, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine Drives America’s Cynical Concern for Human Rights in India
The real worry for the Biden administration is a potential Indian pivot away from Washington toward Moscow.
Ukraine: The Broader Geopolitical Conflict
Vijay Prashad reviews the geopolitical battles of recent decades that leave Germany, Japan and India — among others — rattled in their response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Dozens Arrested as Scientists Worldwide Mobilize
They want to send an urgent message: Only a “climate revolution” will be enough to avert catastrophe.