If only there was ANYONE in our foreign policy governing institutions with such a clear understanding of the Ukraine crisis as Professor Sachs, we might have avoided slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and wasting $140 billion of US taxpayer money there. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director…
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He…
Jeffrey Sachs does 95% of the talking in one of the most fascinating, informative interviews ever! Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also President of the…
The U.S. has intentionally caused the most threatening, destructive and completely unnecessary war in its history. It is destroying a major nation and putting the world at risk for nuclear annihilation. Here is some blunt, invaluable straight-talk from the brilliant, courageous, highly-respected Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University…
With the 24/7 propaganda saturating the airwaves of all media channels in the West, we are required to look for alternative sources of reliable information about the conflict in Ukraine, the role and agenda of the US and NATO, the prospects for both further escalation and ultimately for peace in…
“I think the situation we face today in the world is much more dangerous than it was during the Cold War,” warns political realist John J. Mearsheimer. John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell…
[ This opinion piece is a reprint, originally appearing at Common Dreams ] There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA or the President of the United States defines to be in the U.S. interest at a given…
In this video, Ritter discusses with Col. Khodakovsky the many ways pervasive US imperialist propaganda against Russia impedes a true understanding of Russian realities and motives for pursuing the Ukraine War. Scott Ritter also explores the ways Russophobia blinds people in the West to the dangers of fascism in their…
[ What follows is the entire text of Vladimir Putin’s speech at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi. ] Participants in the plenary session, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to welcome you all in Sochi at the anniversary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The moderator has already mentioned that this is…
Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of SCORPION KING: America’s Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump, and his most current book, Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union. He served in the Soviet Union as…