Reckless force doesn’t work, as the devastating human and economic consequences of the Middle East war shows, writes William Hartung. Passing a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will mean endless war.
Trump’s $1.5 Trn Pentagon Budget Will Weaken the US
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Can Media Be Independent if It Accepts US Funding?
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said the Biden administration has asked Congress for $236 million to support “independent media” around the globe.
COVID-19: Paltry International Support for Global South
Unsurprisingly, this has become a “developing-country pandemic,” write Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
Carpetbagging ‘Crony Capitalism’ in Ukraine
Exclusive: Ukraine’s Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko and other key officials were given overnight Ukrainian citizenship — with the law requiring them to renounce their old allegiances — but the American-born Jaresko has balked at that mandate, raising questions about her…
How Ukraine’s Finance Chief Got Rich
Exclusive: Ukraine’s Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko collected at least $1.77 million in bonuses from a U.S.-taxpayer-funded investment project that she ran even as it was losing money, a sign that her image as a paragon of public-interest “reform” may not…
US Tax Dollars and Ukraine’s Finance Minister
Special Report: Though touted as the face of reform inside Ukraine’s post-coup regime, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko enriched herself at the expense of a U.S.-taxpayer-financed investment fund and USAID now says it’s missing some of the audit records detailing Jaresko’s…
Ukraine Finance Minister’s American ‘Values’
Special Report: Among the arguments for why Americans should risk nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine is that the regime that took power in a coup last year “shares our values.” But one of those “values” personified by Finance Minister…