This week, Briahna Joy Gray spoke to Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor, Matt Duss, about the escalating conflict in Ukraine. The left has split in its approach to this issue, with difference sides accusing one another of imperialism or being Putin-puppets respectively. Briahna attempts to get to the […]
Is this just another oil war? This week, Briahna Joy Gray interviews Intercept national security reporter Ken Klippenstein & Daily Poster founder David Sirota about how energy and climate policy play a role in the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Brie asks Ken about his recent piece titled “Saudi-Russia Collusion is […]
This week, Briahna Joy Gray speaks to Tribune staff writer and author Grace Blakeley about whether war in Ukraine, and the resulting sanctions, might mark the beginning of the end of the US dollar’s supremacy as the global reserve currency.
This week, Briahna Joy Gray speaks with Washington Editor of Harper’s Andrew Cockburn about his book The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine. Cockburn is an expert on nuclear risk, war profiteering, and the pernicious reach of the military industrial complex, and he brings […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the existence of biological research facilities in Ukraine.
Maxim Lott, writer of the Maximum Truth newsletter, discusses what he witnessed while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine while living in Russia.
Ryan Grim details the hawkish instincts of the White House press corp.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the killing of two Fox News journalists in Ukraine this week.
Joining nato as a full member also requires meeting a bunch of interoperability and security standards for their military(this typically takes around a decade), and the prospective member country isn’t supposed to have any ongoing border disputes etc that would immediately pull NATO into a conflict.
For Day 10 of The Realignment’s daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with retired U.S. Army Lt. Col John Nagl, counterinsurgency expert and visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College. John is the author of Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice, Learning to […]
For day 9 of The Realignment’s daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall and Saagar speak with Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer at Anduril Industries, former Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and author of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, joins The Realignment […]
Russia Today Moscow’s top negotiator says Kiev has proposed the adoption of a neutral status similar to Austria or Sweden. Vladimir Medinsky, Russia’s top negotiator at the peace talks with Ukraine, has said that Kiev is floating the idea of becoming a neutral nation. “Ukraine is proposing an […]
By Ed West On the day that Russia invaded Ukraine, the Daily Telegraph reported that Britain’s spies were being told to check their white privilege and to stop using sexist words like ‘manpower’; meanwhile the Ministry of Defence was asking people to nominate their favourite LGBT books, and […]
By Jason Fields The Week War is creeping closer to NATO’s borders. On Sunday, a Ukrainian base just 11 miles from Poland was struck by Russian rockets. It seems like a warning. If one of those missiles had traveled just a few seconds farther west, NATO — and therefore […]
Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the geopolitics of the war in Ukraine. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter. Stark Truth Radio Topics: The Geopolitical background of the conflict, […]
By Brendan Cole Newsweek Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has accepted that his country will not become a member of NATO, one of the demands made by Russia before it invaded. According to a translation of his comments made via video link to at a meeting of the leaders […]
LA Progressive The New Cold War Is Here to Stay, Until It Isn’t In certain quarters in this country, Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has generated enthusiasm for a new cold war. At the New York Times, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have been described as “children of the [old] Cold War” […]
By Rachel Marsden, PARIS — Have you grown bored of working from home over the past couple of pandemic-plagued years? Do you long for an adventurous and exciting overseas working vacation? Well, you’re in luck because the “Ukrainian rebels” are hiring! They aren’t called that, officially. But neither […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak virtually to members of Congress on Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced in a joint letter.
Krystal and Saagar the anti-war protests breaking out in Russia and occupied Ukrainian cities including one woman who interrupted a primetime Russian state TV broadcast to spread an anti-war message
Batya-Ungar Sargon discusses U.S. involvement in Ukraine, rising gas prices, and how the working class is being left behind.
Krystal and Saagar condemn the calls by the hosts of The View and Mitt Romney for Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson to be jailed under the pretext of aiding Russia
Krystal and Saagar examine the response by China to Russia’s invasion and the west’s economic sanctions as an event that has put the CCP at a crossroads over how their regime will proceed in geopolitics going forward
Robby Soave denounces the labeling of Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson as “foreign assets” for their comments on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar break down the projected statistics for Russia’s economy in the near future after western sanctions at an unprecedented scale have lead to expectations of a default and Putin nationalizing industry
By Yuval Noah Harari, The Economist Humanity’s greatest political achievement has been the decline of war. That is now in jeopardy. AT THE HEART of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental question about the nature of history and the nature of humanity: is change possible? Can humans change […]
Krystal and Saagar bring the up to date news on the Ukraine war diplomacy front as American officials prepare to meet with China as Russia asks them for military backing
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss Iran’s missile strikes near a U.S. consulate complex in Iraq.
Krystal and Saagar critique the media’s failure to educate the US public on particular measures being discussed to handle the war in Ukraine as many support a no-fly zone unless it is seen as a declaration of war by the US
British journalist and editor of Harper’s Magazine, Andrew Cockburn, discusses the US government’s exorbitant defense spending.
Saagar issues a sharp critique of the ahistorical claims by prominent MSNBC liberals and former US government officials that Putin is even worse than Hitler was
Dr. Rashad Richey and Philip Wegmann discuss Tulsi Gabbard’s comments on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar cover the Iranian attack on a US Consulate as the sanctions against Russia jeopardize the negotiations to renew the Iran Nuclear Deal first agreed to by the Obama administration
Krystal and Saagar evaluate the warnings made by Putin that the US military aid to Ukraine will be targeted by Russia as the west continues sending weapons and support to Ukraine
People are ignorant and easily form strong opinions about things they know nothing about. Education is essential, and the MSM is failing us.
Not a Biden fan but it’s clear that the incident in Ukraine has been a gift for polling. It has helped distract from domestic issues and other issues like the clusterfuck in Afghanistan and he has managed to walk a fine line between giving support to besieged Ukrainians […]
Journalist Glenn Greenwald and the hosts discuss the latest developments out of Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar break down the battling happening in Ukraine over the past few days as cities in Ukraine get destroyed and Russia hits NATO at its doorstep
He’s pretty talented at business but he needs to stay in his own lane and stick with things where he knows what he’s talking about. By Harambe, Not the Bee Romney, you mess with a bull, you get the horns. I’m not here to weigh in on the […]
I would be looking to escape as well. This is a war between the two most corrupt countries in Europe, like showdown between the Bloods and the Crips. Who needs either one of them? By Bethany Dawson, Insider Andriy (not his real name) thought the major change in […]
News Laundry The biggest news of the past week has been Russia’s military offensive against Ukraine. As news channels scrambled to provide round the clock coverage, several people pointed out “racism” in the way they presented their reports, especially compared with news reports of similar military offensives carried […]
Transparency International Experts explain the country’s slow progress by the lack of its leadership’s political will to fight corruption and a low level of trust in Ukrainian judges and prosecutors. Ukraine ranked 130th among 180 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2017. The annual report was released on […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic (Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reinvigorated Western alliances. The European Union, the United States, and other countries swiftly applied sanctions, triggering an unprecedented economic blackout. And yet Vladimir Putin is pressing on with more brutal tactics. […]
Professor of economics, Bryan D. Caplan, details Ukraine’s effort to bribe Russian soldiers into deserting.
Journalist Nancy Rommelmann joins the hosts on the ground from Ukraine.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to calls by University of Chicago students calling for the cancellation of John Mearsheimer over alleged Putinism.
Pollster Nancy Zdunkewicz breaks down the American public’s views towards sanctions imposed on Russia.
Marshall Kosloff of The Realignment podcast talks with counterinsurgency expert Dr. David Kilcullen about the state of Russia’s military and whether they could win a protracted war of occupation.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments made by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg about how women would never start wars, ignoring the legacy of Hillary Clinton
Krystal and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends are joined by foreign policy expert Dr.Trita Parsi to unpack the situation in Ukraine and how the western sanctions against Russia might not work as intended
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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