As the world continues to teeter on the brink of disaster over Ukraine and Palestine, Consortium News endeavors to bring you different perspectives to try to make sense of the dangerous times we live in.
American film director Oliver Stone addressed the Znanie Youth Forum in Moscow ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day for the Allies in World War II.
Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump on the phone Monday the Ukraine war can only end after addressing its “root causes,” which the Western media have been tirelessly rooting out of public discussion since the war began, says Joe Lauria.
In Istanbul, a door was pried open after a soap opera’s worth of chicanery in London, Paris, Berlin and Kiev. Now the question is what Trump can do to address Russia’s concerns.
Former C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern addressed the Znanie Youth Forum in Moscow on April 29 ahead of the celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe over the Nazis.
Pamela McElwee describes the degraded ecosystems and dioxin-contaminated soils and waters that persist, 50 years later, after the U.S. ecocidal assault on Vietnam’s jungles and marshes.
The agreement, marking what must be the finest hour of Ukrainian nationalism, shatters the Russian dream of a neutral borderland, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
This weekend marks the 11th anniversary of 48 ethnic Russians burnt alive by far-right thugs in Odessa, a massacre that spurred independence declarations in Donbass, leading to civil war in Ukraine and Russia’s eventual intervention.
Michael Brenner scrutinizes the effects of Trump’s behavior on foreign policy over the past 100-plus days, saying his ability to cast himself a winner owes more to the perversity of contemporary American society than to any genius on his part.
Instead of judiciously adapting to America’s relative decline by carving out a new place for itself in the emerging multipolar world, U.S. leaders have pursued the fantasy of endless dominance, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.