The beverage is finding its way into the sanctioned country through parallel imports, RBK reports A bottle of Coca Cola is pictured in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow on March 9, 2022. © AFP […]
Bringing the ongoing hostilities to a halt would only “ratify” Russia’s “conquest” of Ukrainian lands, John Kirby has said Ukrainian servicemen fire a US-made M777 howitzer. © Getty Images / Anadolu Agency / Narciso Contreras Washington is […]
The State Department’s annual assessment ultimately blames Russia for Kiev’s transgressions File photo: A US-supplied shipping container used as a “temporary cultural space” in Kiev, Ukraine, March 15, 2023 © Roman Pilipey/Getty Images An annual human rights […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas – Public Domain The United States is a human rights hypocrite. No country has been more aggressive in lecturing others about human rights and no country has […]
BY MICHAEL HUDSON Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse is […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Titan II ICBM at the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona. Photo Jurvetson (flickr) Arms control and disarmament are on life support, and John Bolton and the Washington Post have predictably come along to try to […]
BY SAND BRIM Gathering at mass grave for victims the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Photo: Gail Sullivan. The 1973 Siege at Wounded Knee is the longest “civil unrest” in the history of the US Marshal […]
BY THOMAS KNAPP Photograph Source: Solen Feyissa – CC BY 2.0 The US government’s bi-partisan war on your right to publish embarrassing videos of yourself proceeds apace. As of March 6, Reuters reports, the White House is […]
BY JAMES BOVARD Photograph Source: DSS Agent in commission of duties (acknowledged in photo caption) – Katz, Samuel M. – Public Domain Thirty years ago last week, the largest terrorist attack in American history up to […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: U.S. Embassy Nigeria – Public Domain In an effort to gain leverage against Russia and China, Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Kazakhstan last week to meet with foreign ministers […]