Disagreement between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents and cautiousness by Germany and France, seems to indicate only the U.S. and U.K. are keen for war with Russia, reports Joe Lauria.
A War Only America & Britain Seem to Want
Category: Commentary
The ‘Afterlives’ of German Colonialism in East Africa
Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah ‘s Nobel Prize invites us to ponder Germany’s colonial past between the Scramble for Africa and the First World War in what is now Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda, writes Tom Menger.
In the Spirit of Robert Parry
Four years ago today, Consortium News founding editor Robert Parry passed away unexpectedly. In this essay, adapted from an afterword for the forthcoming book, American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader, his son Nat reflects on his life and legacy.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Secrecy of Evidence
UKRAINE CRISIS: When a NATO Foreign Minister Accused the Alliance of ‘War-Mongering’ Against Russia
In 2016, the German foreign minister accused NATO of ‘saber-rattling’ and a top NATO general said Russia was no threat, words that take on new meaning today, wrote Joe Lauria.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Russia’s Red Line
It is absolutely necessary that Moscow holds the line for the sake of a new security order in Europe and a sustainably stable world order in our time.
Guantánamo’s Forever Elusive Endgame
From the very beginning, writes Karen J. Greenberg, the courthouse at that U.S. base on the island of Cuba has served as a revealing symbol of the prison’s venality.
In the Dark Political Prisoners Wish for Light
Vijay Prashad scans a world full of political prisoners and conveys a message from one of them in Casa Blanca.
UKRAINE CRISIS: US ‘Toolboxes’ Are Empty
The toolbox is empty. Russia knows this. Biden knows this. Blinken knows this. CNN knows this. The only ones who aren’t aware of this are the American people, says Scott Ritter.
Eurasia & the Epochal Decline in US Global Power
Both liberal and conservative political elites in the New York–Washington corridor of power have been on top of the world for so long that they can’t remember how they got there, writes Alfred McCoy.