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…
Most folks are too busy and simply would not understand what I’m about to say. But you’re aware, you’re concerned about our future, and you hate war. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be on this website, which is 110% about stopping the war machine and throwing the warmongers out of power. We…
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…
In his 1998 classic, ‘The Greatest Generation’, famed NBC journalist Tom Brokow examined the lives and experiences of some of the millions of American men and women who fought in the Second World War. “At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with…
We are now in the realm of World War Three. The abysmal situation is such that the war is in danger of going nuclear in which case the future of the planet is at stake. Incredibly, to warn of this danger leaves a person open to the accusation that they…
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,…