BYC.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Russia’s invasion of Ukraine took much of the world by surprise. It is an unprovoked and unjustified attack that will go down in history as one of the major war crimes of the […]
BYVolodymyr Ishchenko, Truthout The U.S. and U.K. officials and media have long been warning against the “imminent” Russian invasion of Ukraine. Whatever the prospects of such an invasion are, it also raises an important question about […]
BY DEAN BAKER We all know about the Trumpers’ big lie: somehow millions of votes were stolen from their hero, but the liberals were so smart in their steal that Trump’s team can’t produce any evidence. […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Chad K – CC BY 2.0 The crisis in Ukraine is becoming what I have always thought of as “a powder keg story.” This has long been my private shorthand for a calamitous event, […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: DVIDSHUB – CC BY 2.0 On February 8, 2022, UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets. One of the tweets, which included a photograph of a child […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Unidentified gunmen on patrol at Simferopol Airport in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. The AK-74 carried by the rifleman on the right does not have a magazine inserted. Photograph Source: Elizabeth Arrott / VOA – […]
BY RAMZY BAROUD As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba. Washington’s response, […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Unidentified gunmen on patrol at Simferopol Airport in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. The AK-74 carried by the rifleman on the right does not have a magazine inserted. Photograph Source: Elizabeth Arrott / VOA – […]
BY PETER BOHMER Photograph Source: Pat Guiney – CC BY 2.0 The situation between the United States and Russia over Ukraine is very dangerous. Russia is a capitalist country led by an authoritarian leader, Vladimir Putin. Russia […]
The school behind this apartment building was hit, and two teachers killed, purely for punishment By Jim W. Dean, …from Patrick Lancaster, US Navy veteran, war correspondent First published February 27, 2022 [ Editor’s Note: This is the […]