The PBS NewsHour invited on just about the worst person in the U.S. government to help Americans understand the crisis in Ukraine, writes Mike Madden.
How Not to Explain the Ukraine Crisis
Category: Commentary
2022 — Year of Major Power Conflict Over Ukraine
Russia says Europe must think about the real prospect of turning their continent into a field of military confrontation like that which existed at the height of the Cold War, writes Scott Ritter.
US & Ukraine at UN Refuse to Condemn Nazism
The Ukrainian vote against the U.N. resolution against Nazism was motivated by sympathy for the ideology of historic, genocidal active Nazis. It is as simple as that, writes Craig Murray.
Pentagon’s 20-Year Killing Spree
U.S. government policies have treated civilians as expendable, writes Norman Solomon. Meanwhile truth tellers such as Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Nathan Hale get punished for what they expose.
Supply Chain Disruption Arrives ‘Just in Time’
Kim Moody says cost-cutting methods introduced to the Western auto industry in the 1980s have spread to every type of goods and service production, transport and retail.
New York Times Airstrikes Reporting Ignores Daniel Hale
The influential news organization should give the whistleblower proper credit and call for Biden to immediately pardon him, writes Sam Carliner.
Neoliberal Capitalism, Supply Chains & Inflation
Ending U.S. child care subsidies won’t restock store shelves, writes Sonali Kolhatkar. A fairer, more sustainable global economy might.
The Right is Building Armies of Confrontation
U.S. liberalism fears attempts to build independent, sovereign political projects far more than it fears fascistic governments, writes Vijay Prashad.
Guardian Writer: ‘China World’s Only Imperialist Power’
It’s revealing how alarming empire propagandists find China’s simple warning to defend itself from aggression, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Democracy in America 1832 – 2022
Alexis de Tocqueville, the French visitor to the United States 180 years ago, already defined the enduring American character and what would come to pass, writes Micheal Brenner.