Tag: Russia
What happens when Russian and Ukrainian soldiers come home?
Russian and Ukrainian soldiers will eventually largely lay down their arms, but as the Soviet Afghanistan War shows, returning from the frontlines causes its own issues.
The world’s four legacy empires going down
In a future full of signs that the four empires that have long dominated our world are all crumbling.
Russia’s war on Ukraine generates more emissions than 175 countries: $32...
The first two years of Russia’s invasion resulted in greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to the annual emissions of 175 individual countries, further intensifying the global climate emergency.
The enemy is us
Looking back, the desire to make war and obliterate our “enemies” is a deeply ingrained and repetitive pattern in our history.
A slow-motion World War III?
In 2024, as chaos blooms on the American political scene, the world itself continues to be remarkably at war—think of “war,” in fact, as humanity’s middle name.
Empire decline and costly delusions
Historically, declining empires often provoke denials and delusions that teach their people “hard lessons” and impose on them “hard choices.” That is where we are now.
Are we stumbling into World War III in Ukraine?
The billion dollar weapons package for Ukraine “will put Ukraine at risk, Europe at risk, the free world at risk.”
After two years of war in Ukraine, it’s time for peace
The two years of war in Ukraine that have resulted from the U.S. decision to block the neutrality agreement negotiated between Russia and Ukraine in March 2022 in favor of a long war with Russia.
The last superpower?
Honestly, tell me that you even believe this world we’re supposedly living in exists!
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Humanity on path to climate collapse as study warns 16 tipping points at risk
New research finds current climate policies put Earth on a collision course with multiple environmental tipping points, threatening irreversible damage to global systems.
The betrayal of the Black community
What has not been generally covered are the feelings of let down and betrayal that lingers in the Black community as a result of the aftermath of the 2024 Presidential elections.
GOP leaders met with Israeli minister who called for bombing Gaza aid depots
Israeli national security minister claims Republican leaders supported his calls to target humanitarian supplies in Gaza, a move condemned as a war crime by international experts.
Pope Francis’s remarkable peacemaking life
As Francis demonstrated, there's no better way to live life than to practice, teach and promote nonviolence.
Trump administration resumes student loan collections, threatening millions with garnished wages and economic hardship
Restarting federal loan garnishments and ending relief programs, the Trump administration advances a sweeping overhaul that critics say punishes struggling borrowers and deepens a national crisis.