Western coverage of the war in Ukraine is making people accept the continuous escalations toward world war. We must wake each other up from this propaganda-induced sleep.
Caitlin Johnstone: Media Muzzling Anti-War Protests
Africa, Commentary, Germany, Health Reform, Human Rights, Income Inequality, Latin America, Nicaragua, Soviet Union
East Germany & the True Test of a Civilization
Vijay Prashad recalls the DDR’s efforts to create a humane and just health care system, with few resources available, in a country devastated by World War II.
American Empire, Biden Administration, China, Commentary, Militarism, NATO, Protests, Russia, U.S., Ukraine
Caitlin Johnstone: The Historic Urgency for an Anti-War Movement
The sparks are flying around flash points that could ignite nuclear war, in Crimea and elsewhere. We need to start organizing against those who would steer our species into extinction.
American Empire, Analysis, Cold War, Commentary, History, International, Protests, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Vietnam
WATCH: The Vietnam Peace Movement & Ukraine Today
Historian Carolyn Woods Eisenberg speaks on “Ending the ‘American War’ in Vietnam: Impact of the U.S. Antiwar Movement and Lessons for the Present.”
US Berates Georgia for Not Being Sufficiently Anti-Russian
Having been considered a darling of Washington, the small country in the Southern Caucasus once again finds itself between a rock and a hard place, writes Giorgi Lasha Kasradze.
Advanced Technologies, Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, COVID-19, France, NATO, Obama Administration, Russia, The Bush-43 Administration, Trump Administration, Ukraine, United Kingdon, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
SCOTT RITTER: Reimagining Arms Control After Ukraine
Having used arms control to gain unilateral advantage over Russia, the cost to the U.S. and NATO in getting Moscow back to the negotiating table will be high.
American Empire, Biden Administration, China, Commentary, Germany, Militarism, NATO, Propaganda, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light
The U.S. abused its providential anointment as the exceptional nation, writes Robert Freeman. That abuse has been recognized, called out and is now being acted against by most of the other nations of the world.
‘Watering Down’ Israeli Apartheid
Ramzy Baroud says it’s as if there is a conspiracy not to describe the realities of Palestine and the Palestinian people by their proper names: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and apartheid.
Commentary, Intelligence, Media, Obama Administration, Propaganda, Russia, Trump Administration, Ukraine
Chris Hedges: Russiagate Spells Journalism’s Death
Jeff Gerth’s exhaustive look at the systemic press failure in covering allegations of pro-Trump Russian interference in the 2016 election has been followed by an ominous silence.
Biden Administration’s Capitulation to Israel
By preventing a U.N. Security Council vote on Israel’s illegal settlements, Marjorie Cohn says Biden failed to demonstrate even the modicum of reason exhibited by the Obama-Biden administration.
American Empire, Biden Administration, China, Commentary, Militarism, Russia, Taiwan, U.S., Ukraine, United Nations
Caitlin Johnstone: US Scrawls ‘Red Lines’ Over Globe
Washington views this entire planet as its territory. It believes it has a divinely bestowed right to issue decrees about what may and may not be done anywhere in the world.
Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts
Months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to jump the tracks in Sandusky, Ohio, Topher Sanders and Dan Schwartz report for ProPublica.
Western Leaders Privately Say Ukraine Can’t Win the War
The German and French leaders have told Ukraine they must seek peace with Russia in exchange for a post-war defense pact, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Commentary, Foreign Policy, NATO, Obama Administration, Russia, The Bush-43 Administration, Trump Administration, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Patrick Lawrence: Russia’s New Reset with the West
Putin’s announcement of a suspension of the last extant U.S.-Russia arms-control pact this week was a carefully attenuated move. It was also a big deal, but not in the way Western officials encourage us to think it is.
Afghanistan, American Empire, Analysis, Commentary, History, Iraq, Russia, Russiagate, Ukraine, Vietnam
More Evidence Emerges That US Wanted Russia to Invade
In the past year, additional proof has emerged proving the West’s provocation of Russia to give it its “Vietnam” in Ukraine.
Why Putin Went to War — One Year Later
On Feb. 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin explained his country’s intentions in Ukraine in a televised speech. How has what he said then measured up to today? Joe Lauria reports.
WATCH: Foreign Ministers at UN Council on Ukraine
Foreign ministers from several of the 15 Security Council nations spoke Friday on the situation in Ukraine a year after Russia’s intervention. Watch the replay here.
American Empire, Books, Commentary, Constitution, Militarism, Propaganda, U.S., U.S. Congress, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
A Fantasy of Angelic, US Omnipotence
Bruce Fein says Robert Kagan is convinced the U.S. has yet to metamorphose the world into paradise because of insufficient appreciation of its omnipotence, omniscience and benevolence, as outlined in Kagan’s 2006 neocon book Dangerous Nation.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Covid & the Way of Death in US Prisons
If we don’t care about prisoners on any normal day, then why would we care about them when a pandemic is spreading through the system?
Winning & Losing the Economic War Over Ukraine
Not only has Russia withstood the economic assault, but the sanctions have boomeranged — hitting the very countries that imposed them, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.