At no time, including the Cuban missile crisis, have we stood closer to the precipice of nuclear war.
Chris Hedges: NATO — Most Dangerous Military Alliance on Planet
Category: Russia
Hunger
The war in Ukraine has been catastrophic for world food prices, writes Vijay Prashad. But the problem didn’t start then.
Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster
If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these U.S. foreign policy debacles, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
SCOTT RITTER: Lithuania’s Brinkmanship
The restoration of Russia’s rail connection with Kaliningrad is urgently needed to avoid a conflict in the Baltics that has worried NATO for a long time.
NATO Expands, Responding to War Caused by NATO Expansion
At the same NATO summit, President Biden announced plans to ramp up U.S. military presence in Europe in response to the Ukraine war, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
NATO & a War Foretold
Instead of exploiting this crisis to expand even further, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davie say the military alliance should suspend all new or pending membership applications until the current crisis has been resolved.
Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine Crawling with CIA & Co
The previously unthinkable idea that the U.S. is at war with Russia has been gradually normalized, with the heat turned up so slowly that the frog doesn’t notice it’s being boiled alive.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Who Should Control Foreign Policy?
Proposing that foreign policy be subjected to democratic processes is a call, essentially, to revolution.
SCOTT RITTER: The Fantasy of Fanaticism
Despite what some “defense analysts” may be telling Western media, the longer the war continues, the more Ukrainians will die and the weaker NATO will become.
Caitlin Johnstone: A Nuclear State of Denial
For younger people, it’s hard to understand that the same nuclear Armageddon scenario their grandparents used to worry about is still here.