The more tense things get, the greater the likelihood of an unthinkable chain of events from which there is no coming back.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Single Most Important Question In The World Right Now
Category: Russia
White Ukrainian Refugees Accepted by Nations Who Shut Out Others
The country receiving the most so far is Poland, where over 280,000 people entered, according to a spokesperson for the U.N. refugee agency.
Chris Hedges: The Greatest Evil
Text of Putin’s Announcement of Military Action
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday morning announced the start of military action in Ukraine. For information purposes only, we publish here the text of his address.
WATCH: UN General Assembly on Ukraine
The U.N. General Assembly is holding a special session Monday on Ukraine. Watch it here (begins at 8-minute mark.)
The Consequences of Humiliating Russia
Russia’s actions in Ukraine are to a great extent the culmination of the numerous humiliations that the West has inflicted on Russia over the past 30 years, writes Michael Brenner.
ROBERT PARRY: Playing Nuclear Chicken Over Ukraine
With U.S.-Russia tension boiling over after Russia entered Ukraine’s 8-year civil war and on Sunday put its nuclear arsenal on alert, we reprint this dire warning from Robert Parry in March 2015.
Putin’s Nuclear Threat
The disconnect between the Western and Russian narratives in the current conflict could prove fatal to the world, writes Scott Ritter.
WATCH: ‘The War in Ukraine’
In 2015 and 2017, the Watchdog Media Institute released a 22-part video series on Maidan and Kiev’s war on ethnic Russians. Watch the summary 25-minute film and the entire series here.
ROBERT PARRY: The Mess That Nuland Made
Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s “regime change” in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences, wrote Robert Parry on July 13, 2015.