Many of the most severe restrictions that people expected the Taliban to impose have not yet materialized, writes Kern Hendricks.
Remember Afghanistan
Category: Biden Administration
Now Let’s Do the US Oligarchs
Richard Eskow says Biden laid out a blueprint for responding to American oligarchs and super-predators who dwarf their Russian counterparts in wealth and political power.
WATCH: Mearsheimer and McGovern on Ukraine
Prof. John Mearsheimer and ex-C.I.A. Russia specialist Ray McGovern discuss the Ukraine conflict and U.S. policy towards Moscow, presented by the Committee for the Republic in Washington.
Chris Hedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold
After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. The military-industrial complex would not allow such sanity to prevail.
WATCH: Belmarsh Tribunal NYC LIVE
Following its first hearing in London last year, the Belmarsh Tribunal comes to New York City. Watch it here live today at 2 pm EST, 7 pm in London.
The Growing Scandal of the Missing Intelligence, Including on Alleged Russian ‘Kill Lists’
There’s been no intelligence revealed at State Dept. briefings, to the U.N., to European allies or Ukraine, but the U.S. wants everyone to believe they’re telling the truth about an imminent Russian invasion and its “kill lists,” writes Joe Lauria.
US Doubles Downs on Russian ‘Invasion’ Rhetoric at UN Amid Signs of Donbass Offensive
Blinken’s certainty about an “invasion” is suspicious. He may know more than he’s saying: such as the date of the Kiev offensive, perhaps designed to provoke the invasion he is so sure will happen, writes Joe Lauria.
WATCH: UN Security Council on Ukraine Crisis
Russia called a U.N. Security Council meeting on the anniversary of the council’s endorsement of the Minsk 2 accord. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russia’s deputy foreign minister addressed the meeting. Watch it here.
The US Persecution of Alex Saab
The diplomat currently languishing in a Miami prison has been vital to Venezuela’s ability to survive the brutal economic war being waged against it, writes Leonardo Flores.
Ukraine Crisis Should Have Been Avoided
An avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense, writes Jack Matlock, the last U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R.