On June 23, 2022, an organization funded by the US Congress, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe – also known as the Helsinki Commission – held a virtual conference calling for the “decolonizing of Russia.” This begs the question of why they are not seeking the decolonization of the United States.…
Much less than the heroic defenders they are made out to be, the extremist regiment’s many crimes are well documented. Ukrainian propaganda has elevated the Azov Battalion’s protracted but ultimately doomed final stand, in Mariupol, to heroic proportions. Adding further pathos to this sentimental story were the desperate calls for…
We have read a great deal about a new Cold War since the U.S. cultivated the coup of February 2014 in Ukraine and the nation was tragically divided against itself. Some of us have ruminated in print, in this publication and elsewhere, on this emergent reality. With the back-to-back announcements…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A senile old man in Washington who has a deadly nuclear arsenal at his fingertips is calling for dangerous weapons to be taken out of the hands of the mentally unstable. “Listen, folks, this shouldn’t be difficult,” said the yammering old geriatric to a duck in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting…
Michael Hudson is one of the few truly competent, objective, and honest economists in the U.S. today. He has refused to drink both the Kool-Aid of Western geopolitical propaganda and the toxic cocktail of neoliberal dogma, thus offers jaw-dropping, thought-provoking, and truly invaluable insights into our current situation, available from…
May 10, 2022 With the conflict in Ukraine entering its third month, the likelihood of a successfully negotiated peace — an immediate necessity — is becoming ever more remote. This proxy war by the United States is designed to use the Ukrainian people to mortally disable Russia. Those who profit…
Why has the United States already become so heavily invested in the Russia-Ukraine war? And why has it so regularly gotten involved, in some fashion, in so many other wars on this planet since it invaded Afghanistan in 2001? Those with long memories might echo the conclusion reached more than a…
Here is a speech Vladimir Putin could have made but DID NOT make — at least in this specific language — to the Russian people just before initiating the special military operations in Ukraine: “It is my responsibility as the president to warn our citizens of secret, swift, and extraordinary…
[ After reading this excellent analysis, you may want to look at our recent video interview of Dan Kovalik. It’s short but extremely insightful and thought provoking . . . Dan Kovalik Interview October 27, 2022 ] Dan Kovalik teaches Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law,…
Amazon Review: Even more relevant today in 2022 than it was when it was published in 2016! “This is a fast, gripping, and eye-opening read. I finished it in one sitting. The whole time I was reading, I had to keep reminding myself that this book was published six years ago,…