BY DANIEL BEAUMONT Photograph Source: LCpl Andrew P. Roufs, USMC – Public Domain Reportage and commentary about the invasion of Ukraine has often sought to place it in a historical context, to cite historical parallels and […]
Roaming Charges: The Thoughts That Pulled the Trigger BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR River (Columbia) of Darkness. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. + You could count on 35% of Americans supporting any ludicrous thing Trump said, which as […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Mvs.gov.ua – CC BY 4.0 Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. […]
BY HEIDI MORRISON Yemeni capital Sanaa after airstrikes. Photograph Source: Almigdad Mojalli/VOA – Public Domain As an academic whose career focuses on writing and teaching about children and war, the latest conflict in Ukraine should be […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan. Photograph Source: Michael Grau – CC BY-SA 3.0 On March 16, 2022, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered his State of the Nation address in Nur-Sultan. Most of Tokayev’s speech was […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: Joe Mastroianni, National Science Foundation – Public Domain East Antarctica, often times referred to as “the final frontier of global warming,” is making headlines once again. A few weeks ago East […]
BY MATTHEW STEVENSON Sevastopol, Crimea: Seized from Ukraine in 2014 and now the home port of the Russian Black Sea fleet, and from which the Battleship Potemkin sailed, on its fateful voyage, in 1905. Photo: Matthew […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Afghanistan Matters – CC BY 2.0 When the United States stole $7 billion from Afghanistan on February 11, that was no mere crime of robbery. It was a war crime and a […]
BY ZOLTAN GROSSMAN Since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24, most western media accounts have assumed that his goal is to conquer the entire country, overthrow the elected government, and replace it with a pro-Russian […]
BY LAURA FLANDERS Gas prices are rising and the options for policymakers are few and getting fewer, but there are some good ones. Let’s be clear. The US barely uses Russian oil (most of which goes […]