History tells us where we are in the human story and what we, alive now, must do to advance this story. To tamper with history is among the gravest of sins against the human cause.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Tampering With History
Category: Russia
Caitlin Johnstone: Dying for Inches in Ukraine
That weapons systems are being tested on human bodies to the immense benefit of war profiteers over a completely avoidable and provoked war is nightmarishly depraved.
IMPEACHMENT: Innuendo and Evidence
Consortium News‘ Patrick Lawrence will be daily covering the U.S. House inquiry into the impeachment of President Joe Biden. This is his first report.
US House Rejects Cluster-Bomb Ban
Democrats and Republicans turned down the chance to stop the export of weapons that harm and kill civilians long after military campaigns are over.
UN Reform? Think ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Thomas G. Weiss says the U.N.’s highest priority should be reinforcing the system’s crumbling foundations.
UK & France Should Relinquish Permanent UN Seats
Vijay Prashad challenges the right of two old colonial powers to lord over present-day geopolitics.
Caitlin Johnstone: Neocons Love the Ukraine War
Bill Kristol, the neoconservative who played a pivotal role in the U.S. invasion of Iraq, makes it obvious why neocons provoked the Ukraine war and why they are loving every minute of it.
Honored Nazi Exposes Canada’s Longstanding Ukraine Policy
By celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a “hero,” Canada has highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans, writes Max Blumenthal.
Caitlin Johnstone: Bravado on the Nuclear Brink
Sean Penn — who is now plugging his new Zelensky movie — says it’s cowardly not to risk the life of every terrestrial organism on earth to achieve U.S. military objectives.
Get Ready for ‘Ukraine War into the 2030s’
Demanding Russia end its aggressions without the west agreeing to end its own aggressions that led to this conflict is demanding Russia submit to being ruled and dominated by the western empire, says Caitlin Johnstone.