Without historical context, which is buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand the war in Ukraine. Historians will tell the story, but journalists are cut short for trying to tell it now.
Year 4: The Timeline That Tells the Tale
Category: Poland
Year 4: Why the US Needed Russia to Invade
In a moment of candor in March 2022, Joe Biden revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion to launch its three-pronged, pre-meditated war on Russia, writes Joe Lauria.
Jonathan Cook: Cheerleading Aggression Against Iran
Corporate media doesn’t represent humanity’s interests. It promotes the interests of billionaires and their hangers-on, who make huge profits from a war machine in constant need of excuses to kill.
Europa Ante Novum Bellum (Europe Before the New War)
Whose interests are served by predictions of a third general European war in little more than a century? The answer is clear: politicians who have led Europe into this nearly hopeless situation, says Uros Lipuscek.
EU Buying Weapons Tested on Palestinians
Israel sees an opportunity in a Europe rearming because of the supposed threat of Russia, writes Jessica Buxbaum.
In Ukraine, Ultra-Nationalists Are the ‘Good Guys’
Neo-Nazism’s rise in Ukraine is due to the silent approval of Ukraine’s political and military elites who prefer to turn a blind eye because they rely on the far-right for their military potential, Ukrainian academic Marta Havryshko tells Natylie Baldwin.
Wanted for War Crimes & Welcome in Europe
On his visit to Hungary Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu was protected from the ICC’s arrest warrant as Hungary said it was withdrawing from the court.
War Fever Grips Europe
As if two world wars born in Europe were not enough, an increasingly divided Europe is seeking unity through militarization and hyperbolic fear of Russia, writes Uroš Lipušcek.
Craig Murray: Putin Is No Hitler
The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channelling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.
Jeffrey Sachs: The Geopolitics of Peace
The author explains manipulative U.S. post-war foreign policy to European MPs, explodes myths about Ukraine and urges an independent European foreign policy.