Americans don’t merely acquiesce to the imperium’s wars, interventions, collective punishments and assorted other deprivations. They actively embrace them.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Great Acquiescence — Glory to Ukraine
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NYT Smears Journalist, Calls 2014 Ukraine Coup ‘Conspiracy Theory’
It is an uncontroversial matter of public record that the U.S. government sponsored the 2014 coup in Ukraine, writes Ben Norton.
A World Without Walls
Once the Russian government decided that integration with Europe and the U.S. was not possible, the West began to portray Putin as diabolical, writes Vijay Prashad.
Corporate Media’s War-Industry Pundits
Analyzing a range of TV news outlets, journalists at The Lever found viewers are often not informed when hawkish “experts” on Ukraine are employed by the weapons industry.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Crushing Dissent’ With George Galloway, Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter and Jill Stein
Join us as we examine the information warfare being waged to enforce a single narrative about the war in Ukraine. Watch the replay.
Ukraine’s Non-White Refugees
Emmanuel Achiri and Hrishabh Sandilya call for immediate rectification of the current degrading and inhumane detention practices at European borders.
SCOTT RITTER: Twitter Wars—My Personal Experience in Twitter’s Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
At some point, the U.S. people, and those they elect to higher office need to bring Twitter in line with the ideals and values Americans collectively espouse when it comes to free speech and online identity protection.
Killing Civilians, from Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol
Instead of investigating its war crimes, the U.S. has actively covered them up, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine Drives America’s Cynical Concern for Human Rights in India
The real worry for the Biden administration is a potential Indian pivot away from Washington toward Moscow.
Chris Hedges: The Pimps of War
The unaccountable coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.