By Joel Mathis The Week Once the cycle of escalation starts, it’s hard to stop. So it’s both alarming and unsurprising that Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Sunday put his country’s nuclear forces on alert, pushing back against the flood of sanctions and angry rhetoric from Western leaders […]
By Caitlin Johnstone There is one question today that is more important than any other question that could possibly be asked, and it’s this: “Is what the US and its allies are trying to accomplish in Ukraine worth continually risking nuclear armageddon for?” Russian state media have confirmed […]
By Matt Taibbi We thought he would be our bastard. Then, he became his own bastard. The president of the Council of Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, made an extraordinary statement over the weekend. “Just days ago much of the world was focused on the unwanted prospect of regime […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the warfare in Ukraine, beginning of peace talks, economic sanctions, Russian oligarch panic, Putin’s nuclear threats, protests around the world, neocon warmongering, Biden’s SCOTUS pick, the media’s selective empathy, Putin’s mistakes, possible endgame scenarios for Russia, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Derek Thompson: https://www.theringer.com/plain-engli… Timestamps: […]
This video was really well researched, well explained and much needed to get everyone informed on what’s happening rn. Thanks for making it, it’ll only serve to educate everyone on current events.
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As of this writing (Friday, February 25), the Russian campaign in Ukraine looks like a model of maneuver warfare, a direct follow-on to the Soviet campaign against the Japanese in Manchuria in 1945. But the year is not 1945, and the results […]
What does Putin’s invasion of Ukraine look like in China? Angeli Datt on the Beijing edit. As Russian troops press further into Ukraine, and Ukrainian citizens join with their army to fight back, reactions around the world have been emphatic. On Saturday, the United States, the United Kingdom, and […]
By Ken Klippenstein The Intercept A spat between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Biden is pushing gas prices ever higher. It started under Obama. As Russia ordered troops into Ukraine on Monday, gas prices soared to their highest levels in over seven years. While the media […]
A new book from Kerry Bolton. In The Tyranny of Human Rights: From Jacobinism to the United Nations Bolton examines the manner by which “Enlightenment” doctrines shaped liberalism and the bloody progenies of Jacobinism and Bolshevism. Bolton demonstrates that the inevitable consequences of these doctrines being predicated on […]
By Colin Campbell, Yahoo News Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Sunday that “it just makes me ill” to see people inside of the Republican Party praise Russian President Vladimir Putin as he wages war against Ukraine. Romney even went as far as to describe it as “almost treasonous” […]
By Robert Mackey The Intercept Fox News clips of Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard trashing Ukraine and the Biden administration were a mainstay of news coverage this week on Russian state television. In the hours since Russia launched its military assault on Ukraine, the news on Russian state […]
By Robert Mackey The Intercept Victims of a right-wing gunman’s shooting spree in Portland said it was unprovoked. Why did the police make the attack sound like a shootout? Prosecutors in Portland, Oregon, charged a right-wing gunman with murder on Tuesday, three days after he opened fire on a […]
By Murtaza Hussain The Intercept At a U.N. Security Council meeting, a speech by Kenyan Ambassador Martin Kimani struck at the heart of the crisis set off by Russia’s aggression. As Europe faces the grim prospect of a land war on a scale it has not seen since […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Pouring more weapons into Ukraine is not how you save lives; you save lives by negotiating a ceasefire. Pouring more weapons into Ukraine is how you create a long and expensive military quagmire for Russia at the cost of many thousands of lives to advance […]
By Amanda Macias, CNBC The U.S., European allies and Canada agreed to disconnect specific Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. SWIFT is an independent enterprise based in Belgium that serves as an internal messaging system between more than 11,000 banks and financial institutions in […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Chris Hedges introduces his latest article for Scheer Post, titled “Chronicle of a War Foretold“, with the following: “After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive […]
By Caitlin Johnstone “I’m concerned about Russian disinformation spreading online, so today I wrote to the CEOs of major tech companies to ask them to restrict the spread of Russian propaganda,” US Senator Mark Warner tweeted on Friday. Since then YouTube has announced that it has suppressed videos […]
PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about Russia, Ukraine, Nato expansion and his experience on the ground reporting from Eastern Europe during the fall of the Soviet Union. Then Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute of Policy Studies, talks about what needs to happen next. […]
By Dave Lawler, Axios Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised statement on Sunday that he was ordering Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on alert, as he continues his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Driving the news: Speaking alongside his defense minister and military chief of staff, Putin said […]
I’m not a Marxist but if you take all of the jargon and rhetorical excess out of this, it’s a fairly astute summation. Only I would add that “imperialist war” (gang fights writ large) is the result of human competition not “capitalist competition” per se. There was plenty […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It seems like just yesterday that our newly minted president, Joe Biden, was promising this country and the world at large a brand spanking new era of peace for Yemen. After watching two consecutive administrations facilitate Saudi Arabia […]
By Robert Parry As the Ukrainian army squares off against ultra-right and neo-Nazi militias in the west and violence against ethnic Russians continues in the east, the obvious folly of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy has come into focus even for many who tried to ignore the facts, […]
Against Annexations and Imperial Aggression: A Statement from Russian Anarchists against Russian Aggression in Ukraine Yesterday, on February 21, an extraordinary meeting of the Russian Security Council was held. As part of this theatrical act, Putin forced his closest servants to publicly “ask” him to recognize the independence […]
Tankie round two! Caleb Maupin and AnCom Brent Legnel join us. Lively and fun discussion on the situation in Ukraine, Cancel Culture and the alt-right, as well as anything that comes to mind!
By Eric Zuesse Modern Diplomacy This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the U.S. and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had […]
By Ted Galen Carpenter There is an abundance of outrage in the United States about Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Multiple investigations are taking place, and Moscow’s conduct was a major justification for the sanctions legislation that Congress just passed. Some furious political figures and members of the media […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the recent developments in the Russo-Ukrainian war and broader geopolitical implications.
“Scary Gary” was nothing if not controversial. Faketarians This post was made by Ron Paul yesterday in response to the deaths of two men. I’m only familiar with one of them: Gary North. While I’m not one to celebrate anyone’s death and totally understand expressing condolences, Ron Paul’s […]
By Craig Bulkeley When Gary Kilgore North passed away on February 24, 2022, at the age of 80, he left behind a massive storehouse of Christian scholarship without parallel in the modern church. For nearly fifty-five straight and solid years he applied himself as a craftsman with single-mind […]
By Alexander Aston Alright folks, it’s time for some analysis. Make no mistake, Putin has very real, very serious geostrategic goals in Ukraine and has made a very calculated move. We are witnessing the beginnings of an extended structural re-organisation of geopolitics that will be going on for […]
By Francis Fukuyama Quillette Vladimir Putin has launched a massive military assault on Ukraine, with the stated purpose of overthrowing the democratically-elected regime there and replacing it with one subservient to Moscow. Russian forces have arrived in the suburbs of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. Ukraine is a country I […]
By Tess Owen VICE Far-right personalities have declared Russia a beacon of anti-wokeness and Putin a strong ethnonationalist. White nationalist livestreamer Nicholas Fuentes has made no secret of where his loyalties lie in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “I wish Putin was president of America,” he mused to his 45,000 […]
By Ruchi Kumar, National Post It was Masouma Tajik’s birthday on Wednesday. The Afghan refugee spent the day alone, wandering the streets of Lviv, trying to make it the best day she could in her new home. “I got a small cake, and made a wish for a […]
Yesterday afternoon, Marshall and Saagar recorded an emergency podcast reacting to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and answered audience questions.
This interview was recorded on Tuesday 15th February before Russia invaded Ukraine. Professor John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served […]
From 2018. On September 27, 2018, Yale’s Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism hosted Vladimir Pozner, the acclaimed Russian-American journalist and broadcaster. Pozner spoke on the impact of US foreign policy towards Russia after the Soviet Union has been disbanded, […]
Peter Pan Maoism and Minon Communism.
–The “alt left” has been painfully wrong on the Putin-Ukraine-Russia situation, and we explore why and what happened
–Republican voters have a higher favorability for Vladimir Putin than they do of Democrats
In her CPAC address, Friday, former Democratic primary candidate and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard said that she has heard boos from both parties when it was announced she would be speaking at CPAC.
By Peter Zeihan on February 25, 2022 I thought it would be helpful to collect our recent newsletters on the subject of Russia and Ukraine in a single place for easy reference. As a reminder, the Zeihan on Geopolitics newsletter is free, and a searchable archive of all past […]
The UN Security Council is the international version of the Five Families of New York. The Americans are analogous to the Gambinos in the sense of being the international crime family that has the longest reach and decades of dominance behind it. The Chinese are analogous to the […]
By Jeva Lange The Week Demonstrations broke out across Russia on Thursday evening as citizens protested President Vladmir Putin’s ongoing attack on Ukraine. Police, apparently anticipating the unrest, “moved swiftly to stifle any dissent at home,” The Daily Beast reports, including preemptively arresting known activists before they even […]
By Jeva Lange The Week Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has sparked near-universal condemnation — including, on Friday, by the Taliban. In an official “statement concerning [the] crisis in Ukraine,” the Taliban, which governs Afghanistan, formally called for “restraint by both parties” in the crisis and expressed concern about the […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week The thing that makes Ketanji Brown Jackson such an excellent nominee to the Supreme Court is also the thing that makes her ripe for attacks from Republicans: She once served as a public defender — the very first one ever appointed to the […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week On the afternoon of Aug. 5, 1990, President George H.W. Bush appeared at a press conference on the South Lawn of the White House. After reviewing developments related to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Bush took questions from reporters. The last elicited the most […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Sitting in my comfortable suburban Philadelphia home, watching horrific events unfold half a world away in Ukraine while protected by the most powerful military the world has ever known, I feel overwhelmed with sadness. Yes, of course, for the suffering and shattered aspirations […]
By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish Putin has called the West’s bluff. Xi will not have failed to notice. Over the last few months, a conversation I had 30 years ago keeps popping into my consciousness. It was the end of the Cold War, and a post-Soviet Russian state […]
By Sean Gabb For reasons that escape my understanding, someone at The Daily Mail called me a few hours ago to ask my opinion on the present war between Russia and the Ukraine. Our discussion was organised about four questions. Here is the generality of what I said […]
Be careful what you wish for, neocons. By Harald Uhlig City-Journal “Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came?” went a 1960s antiwar slogan. Stell Dir vor, es ist Krieg, und Keiner geht hin is the German version. It’s still popular in Germany, a country of peaceniks. Germans’ […]
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