It’s past time that the U.S. recognized the true sources of security: internal social cohesion and responsible cooperation with the rest of the world, rather than the illusion of hegemony, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
The baton of “global leadership,” which Joe Biden mentions every chance he gets, is passing to non-Western leaders.
As a piece of the new world order that is under construction, Putin’s trip to Tehran last week was of singular importance.
A committee of the Democratic Socialists of America’s statement urging a negotiated peace settlement is coming under the usual attacks for being Kremlin propaganda. That shows the shrunken spectrum of debate over this conflict.
Instead of exploiting this crisis to expand even further, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davie say the military alliance should suspend all new or pending membership applications until the current crisis has been resolved.
Westerners should forget about liberating Ukraine, writes Jonathan Cook. First we need to liberate our own minds so we can acknowledge our threatening presence in the world.
In their less-guarded moments, even the worst empire managers know deep down what is true and let it slip out.
This is not the time to make decisions in a moment of historical hysteria and panic, writes Jan Oberg.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the U.S. military-industrial complex recognized a giant business opportunity, writes William J. Astore.
You can’t drain and impoverish the nation to feed an insatiable military machine unless you make its people afraid, even of phantoms.