John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit 2024

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…

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Jeffrey Sachs, Taibbi: How The West DESTROYED Russia

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…

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John Mearsheimer: Zelensky Prepares to Risk it All

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. Above all else, he is an international relations theorist. More specifically, he is a realist, which means that he believes that the great…

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There Is Only One Spaceship Earth | An Essay by William J. Astore

Freeing the World from the Deadly Shadow of Genocide and Ecocide When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very moment should indeed be sobering.…

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Who Caused the Ukraine War? | Analysis by John Mearsheimer

The question of who is responsible for causing the Ukraine war has been a deeply contentious issue since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The answer to this question matters enormously because the war has been a disaster for a variety of reasons, the most important of which is…

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Jeffrey Sachs: Biden Has DESTROYED Ukraine, More Funding Would Be INSANE

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…

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John Mearsheimer: Is China the Real Winner of Ukraine War? | Endgame Luminaries

“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…

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How the CIA Destabilizes the World by Jeffrey D. Sachs

[ 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…

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Patrick Lawrence: Full-Dress Irrationality

Whenever Joe Biden speaks, you have to make sure your bullshit detector is switched on, to borrow Hemingway’s pungent phrase. As is well-documented, our president has spent his public life making it up as he goes along. No surprise, there was a lot of boilerplate junk in the two much-noted…

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Vladimir Putin’s 2023 Speech at Valdai

[ 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…

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