Tag: Russia
The compulsion to intervene
Americans profess to care about the sacrifices of those who serve the nation in uniform. Why don’t we care enough to keep them from harm in the first place?
How Russia’s war in Ukraine threatens the planet
The war not only cost lives and destroyed the Ukrainian economy, it has also been a major environmental hazard.
The wars we don’t (care to) see
It couldn’t be more important to make America’s disastrous wars of this century more visible.
A timely call for peace in Ukraine by US national security...
This intervention by an important group of U.S. national security experts comes at a time when Ukraine is delaying its long-promised spring offensive to avoid "unacceptable" losses, and a return to the negotiating table can therefore save countless lives.
Leaks reveal reality behind US propaganda in Ukraine
Like in previous U.S. wars, the veil of propaganda is unraveling around a senseless and unnecessary war that is killing a generation of young Ukrainians.
Ukraine and the lessons of the Iraq War
Only those who have failed to learn the lessons of the Iraq War would fail to make the same demand of Russia as a prerequisite for a just peace today.
The not-so-winding road from Iraq to Ukraine
The continuing influence of the neocons, who were the architects of U.S. aggression against Iraq, in the ever-escalating Western military response to Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?
The winners are the opportunists and war profiteers, and the losers are the people of Ukraine, working and poor people everywhere, but especially in the Global South, and our fading hopes of halting the climate crisis.
US follows Germany’s lead to send battle tanks to Ukraine
The U.S. agreed to send 31 tanks, and Germany agreed to 14.
Can NATO and the Pentagon find a diplomatic off-ramp from the...
The precarious fine line the United States and NATO are walking in Ukraine, caught between their commitment to an open-ended, ever-escalating war and the existential danger of nuclear war that it may lead to.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.