BYCommon Dreams Staff, Common Dreams David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, is sounding the alarm about people being “starved to death” in Mariupol, a city in southeastern Ukraine surrounded by Russian troops. In […]
BYJoseph Love, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Russia’s War on Ukraine in an Age of Escalating Imperial Tensions This interview was conducted via Zoom on March 9, 2022. Joseph Love is based in Tennessee; the translator […]
BYAaron Jaffe, Zachary Levenson & Vanessa Wills, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Russia’s War on Ukraine in an Age of Escalating Imperial Tensions As the global news media continue to document the Russian military’s indiscriminate shelling of civilians in […]
BYMike Ludwig, Truthout Analysts say the defense industry has spent billions of dollars lobbying Congress while quietly making much more in profit by manufacturing weapons that fuel deadly conflicts in Ukraine, Yemen and across the world […]
BY DANIEL FALCONE Putin taking the presidential oath beside Boris Yeltsin, May 2000. Photograph Source: Kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 This is a transcript of a live discussion (a continuation of an earlier interview found in Counterpunch). We […]
BY ALFRED W. MCCOY Photograph Source: Lisa Norwood – CC BY 2.0 As the war in Ukraine heads for its third month amid a rising toll of death and destruction, Washington and its European allies are scrambling, […]
Russian forces have destroyed a logistics terminal in Odessa that held a large batch of foreign weapons, Moscow said on Saturday amid its ongoing military offensive in Ukraine. However, the city’s authorities claimed that its […]
A couple of days ago, I noted that Chilean citizen journalist Gonzalo Lira was no longer reading/replying to messages on Telegram, not in character as he usually replied very quickly. Eva Karene Bartlett@EvaKBartlett Worrying that @realGonzaloLira has […]
BY: RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair To the motives for war in human history, capitalism added another: profit. That motive drove technological advancement and created a genuine world economy. It also built new […]
By: VT Lowkey is joined by journalist Ben Norton to discuss the recent U.S.-backed coup in Pakistan, the West’s plan to turn Ukraine into a neverending war, and the new multipolar global order taking shape […]