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.
Ukraine Crisis Should Have Been Avoided
Category: Cuba
A Bittersweet 2021
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.
Vijay Prashad: Pandemic Worsens the Old Divides
Vijay Prashad hails socialist educational programs that have stuck to their core principles and defied overall trends during the pandemic.
Cuba’s Blueprint for Building More with Less
A post-revolutionary architectural experiment offers lessons for designing with scarcity, writes M. Wesam Al Asali.
Washington’s Unhealthy Obsession With Cuba
Public funding for the anti-Castro industry in the United States seems inexhaustible, writes Rosa Miriam Elizalde.
COVID-19: The Money That Never Arrives in Cuba
Rosa Miriam Elizalde reflects on U.S. restrictions on flights and remittances as a result of Biden’s continuation of Trump-era policies, which are compounding the hardships of the pandemic.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: No Insight After Afghanistan
Remaking the world — all of it — in the U.S. image has been a foundation stone of American foreign policy since the Wilson administration — a century ago.
Create Two, Three, Many Saigons
Vijay Prashad recalls the obliterations of U.S. interventionism, including any memory of the women’s rights leaders who were active in Afghanistan before 2001.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Different World Order
A new order among nations does not imply some kind of Orwellian Oceania — a globally homogenized superstate, the grotesque dream of liberal cosmopolitans.