“The Hard Way” — Special Envoy Keith Kellogg’s proposed oil-price manipulations targeting Russia would actually devastate U.S. oil production and the U.S. economy.
SCOTT RITTER: Trump’s Doomed Plan for Ukraine
Tag: U.S. sanctions
The Olympic Refugee Team — Inspiration & Tragedy
The need for such a team speaks to the failure to reverse the conditions — including U.S. sanctions — that displace people in the first place, writes Phyllis Bennis.
Venezuela: As US Leaders Call Fraud, US Observers Endorse Results
Western media appeared as eager as the U.S. government to undermine the elections in Venezuela and agitate for political strife, writes Alan MacLeod.
25 Years of Venezuelan Defiance
Some of the nations that have banded together to defend the U.N. Charter — particularly Russia and China — have provided Venezuela with alternatives to the U.S.-dominated financial and trade system, writes Vijay Prashad.
The Dangers of ‘Minstrel Diplomacy’
Black faces are being used by the failing empire to sell failed racist, neocolonial militarism, writes Wilmer J. Leon.
China & the Axis of the Sanctioned
The decline in U.S. diplomatic influence in the Middle East reflects not just Chinese initiatives, writes Juan Cole, but Washington’s incompetence, arrogance and double-dealing over three decades in the region.
US Values, Verities & Global Failure
Two words — democracy and autocracy — have received a new birth in the West as the U.S. embraces the idea of a Cold War sequel, says Michael Brenner. The implications are profound.
The Answer to ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’
The United States is interested in safeguarding the profits of monopoly capital, which carries politicians in Washington around in its pockets like loose change, writes Roger McKenzie.
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.
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.