An avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense, writes Jack Matlock, the last U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R.
Ukraine’s National Guard says that last year the U.K. military agreed to start training its forces, which include a thousand-strong neo-Nazi unit, Matt Kennard reports. The U.K. Ministry of Defence disputes the claim.
The incident reflects how difficult it is for journalists to collate rising reports of religion-based hate crimes under the Modi government, writes Betwa Sharma.
The U.S. is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire and the primary business is war.
Warmongering is always disgusting, writes Craig Murray. But especially so when it’s done by the same powers that have abandoned an entirely sensible framework for peace in Ukraine that they themselves initiated.
It’s not something it can come out and directly say, because admitting it sees itself as the rulers of the world would make it look tyrannical and megalomaniacal, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
That way nobody needs to pretend they’re doing news reporting instead of intelligence agency stenography and the public is clear they’re being fed whatever story about reality the C.I.A. wants them to believe.
Only through the lens of history can we understand why China fought so hard for a place in the Olympics on its own terms, writes Charles Xu.
A century after its publication, the timeless novel warns us about the poisons of nationalism and idolatry and the commonality of our sojourns between birth and death.
Russia’s goal is not to destroy Ukraine—this could be accomplished at any time. Rather, the goal of Russia is to destroy NATO by exposing its impotence, writes Scott Ritter.
“I can’t think of a worse betrayal of the people of Afghanistan than to freeze their assets and give it to 9/11 families,” said one person whose brother was killed on Sept. 11.
By mirroring power, Vijay Prashad says that the barren ideas of right-wing intellectuals are made to appear reasonable.
Analysts Alexander Mercouris and Scott Ritter break down the drama between Russia, the United States, NATO and Ukraine in an extraordinary discussion on CN Live! Read the transcript.
“To push for the termination of this lifesaving project in order to protect the interests of pharmaceutical companies is shameful,” said one advocate.
Just as Jimmy Savile was to be protected over actual sex crime, Keir Starmer knew that Julian Assange was to be persecuted over fake sex crime, writes Craig Murray.
Joe DeManuelle-Hall reports on the years-long squeeze that major railroads have put on their operations and workforces.
ACLU attorney Hina Shamsi came under fire from Sen. Lindsey Graham, while the chair of a Yemeni group offered graphic testimony of airstrikes’ human costs.
Benjamin Norton reports on the meeting in Beijing between China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin designed to deepen the integration of the two Eurasian superpowers.
The sudden chorus of outrage at the prime minister for impugning the reputation of the opposition leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is strange in many ways, writes Jonathan Cook.
In a massive General Motors plant, over 6,500 workers finally had the opportunity to pick a union of their own choice, writes Sam Pizzigati.