This is some of the most interesting geopolitical/international relations commentary I have seen in a while. This segment gets to the wider geopolitical ramifications of this. It’s more or less the First World and former Russian vassalages against the Second World and the Third World. Even Israel and […]
Robby Soave argues that the United States should not militarily engage with Russia.
Ryan Grim makes the case that now, more than ever, the U.S. should return all seized funds to the Afghan Central Bank.
Russia-based socialist writer, Egor Kotkin, discusses how Vladimir Putin’s class interests affect Russia’s invasions of Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar examine the dramatic shift in public polling on escalation with Ukraine since Russia has invaded and mainstream media’s wartime propaganda machine has begun spinning
Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments made by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on what America should do to fight against Russia and suppress dissenters at home
Saagar goes through examples from Russian and world history that compare to the time we are living in now to show why a full scale war between America and Russia is a real possibility
Krystal and Saagar go through the seriousness of Putin’s threat to start nuclear war against Ukraine and the world even though Biden and others have dismissed his rhetoric
Krystal and Saagar deliver the latest updates on the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine that went nowhere as now the EU has expedited Ukraine’s membership application
Krystal and Saagar respond to the calls from Ukraine President Zelensky and mainstream media pundits for a no fly zone in Ukraine that could create a World War 3 level escalation with Russia
Krystal takes an in depth look at the economic failures pushed by Wall Street playing a major role in the current domestic and global political instability that have not been discussed as war rages on
Krystal and Saagar provide a battle update on the Russian invasion of Ukraine after fighting continued over the past 24 hours with a Russian convoy advancing on Kyiv as missiles fly around
By Keith Preston Putin has taken an extremely big gamble. If he remains committed to limited objectives, he might just get away with it. Limited objectives would be claiming the disputed territories, accessing the Black Sea, pipeline interests, keeping Ukraine out of NATO, and intimidating Russia’s neighbors to […]
By C.J. Polychroniou,Truthout Irrational political panic is as American a phenomenon as apple pie. It often arises as a result of a potential inability on the part of the powers-that-be to control the outcome of developments that may pose challenges to the interests of the existing socio-economic order […]
Tom Woods Show Russian expert Gilbert Doctorow joins us for a rational discussion of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and to caution against the wild demands of armchair warriors on the Internet who seem oblivious to the dangers involved in escalation. Read the original article at TomWoods.com. […]
“When you invade a sovereign country that’s a war crime.” Oh, the irony.
The EU has said it point blank, the Oligarchs in Russia cannot fly over EU airspace. The more countries that get into this no fly zone issues, the worse it will be for these rich people who want to go where they want to go and can’t because […]
Former President George W. Bush has condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine, saying it will “bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering.” In other news OJ Simpson will be giving advise on relationships and marriage.
Adam Kinzinger: Let’s just start WW3 to save Ukraine, shall we? Everybody with a brain: But that would totally destroy Ukraine. And everybody else on the planet. Kinzinger: Oh…
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Russophobia and the cultural impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Kim Iversen breaks down what’s true and what’s false about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Anti-war demonstrator Veronika Nazarova details Russians’ protests against their country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the revival of ‘Russiagate’ in mainstream media.
Ryan Grim details the role the petrodollar has in today’s current crisis in Ukraine.
Robby Soave makes the case for rethinking the mission of NATO in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Journalist Manny Marotta describes his ~45 mile walking evacuation from Ukraine, and the humanitarian crisis that many Ukrainian refugees currently face.
Krystal and Saagar examine the response from Russian oligarchs to the economic warfare being waged by the west against Russia as Senator Marco Rubio boldly proclaims that Putin is ill
Krystal and Saagar respond to the protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine happening in Russia itself and other European nations from Belarus to Germany and beyond
Krystal and Saagar cover the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine as the war rages on and China becomes increasingly uneasy about the backlash to Putin’s invasion
Krystal gives a break down of how the mainstream media decides which victims of war to care about and which ones to ignore as the world watches Russia’s Ukraine invasion and turns a blind eye to other atrocities
Krystal and Saagar push back on the belligerence coming from the mainstream media neocons and other pundits who became liberal heroes during Russiagate who are pushing for World War III against Putin
Saagar takes an in depth look at what he got wrong about Vladimir Putin’s grand strategy for Russia that caused him to downplay the possibility of him invading Ukraine
Krystal and Saagar cover Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s serious nuclear war threats to the west as his invasion of Ukraine continues and Russia’s economy goes under
Krystal and Saagar break down the economic turmoil and financial panic taking place in Russia as the western world goes on an economic offensive in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar bring updates on the Ukraine-Russia conflict from all fronts including the battle lines as information flies around and Putin meets heroic resistance from Ukrainians
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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