Natylie Baldwin interviews academic Olga Baysha about Ukraine’s president, a former TV actor who has become, since the start of the war, an A-list celebrity in the U.S.
UKRAINE: The Real Zelensky
Category: Ukraine
UKRAINE: The Realist Father of Poland’s Hawkish PM
Morawiecki’s eagerness to be in the vanguard of the West’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine does not, so to say, run in the family, writes Michal Krupa.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE: Being Anti-War Isn’t Easy
In real time, the war will always look necessary from the mainstream perspective, and it won’t look like those other wars which are known in retrospect to be mistakes.
The Sword & the Cross at Albright’s Funeral
The late U.S. secretary of state’s association with Biden and the Clintons can be seen as a war-making, mutually absolving clique, writes Sam Husseini.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Ukraine & the Strength of Nonalignment
Liberals once mocked the Bush–Cheney regime’s with-us-or-against-us routines. Now the trans–Atlantic foreign policy cliques have no capacity to see the world differently.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Billionaire Savior of Twitter
Elon Musk’s talk about free speech will only matter if and when Twitter stops censoring Russian media and people who question the official narrative about Ukraine.
US Makes Clear Its Aim Is to ‘Weaken’ Russia
The U.S. makes plain its plan is not just to win its proxy war in Ukraine, but to continue flooding the country with weapons systems and ammunition, long enough to “weaken” Russia, reports Joe Lauria.
US Trashes ICC, But Wants It to Charge Russians
Marjorie Cohn delves into the U.S. double standard in using an international court to prosecute war crimes.
PEPE ESCOBAR – Big Tech’s ‘Cancel Culture’ Love Affair
Cancel culture is inbuilt in the techno-feudalist project: conform to the hegemonic narrative, or else. Journalism that does not conform must be taken down.
Zelensky’s Hardline Internal Purge
Ukraine’s “pro-democracy” president has outlawed his opposition, ordered rivals arrested and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents, Max Blumenthal and Esha Krishnaswamy report.