by Brian Czech People tend to think of Russia as a wide-open country with plenty of space for economic growth. While it may take days to ride the trans-Siberian railway, any notion of an empty Russia is as antiquated as Dr. Zhivago. European Russia, especially, has been cultivated, […]
German Foreign Policy BERLIN/WASHINGTON/KIEV (Own report) – Former NATO special forces – including Germans – are in combat in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine on Ukraine’s side. This was reported by a US news portal. According to this information, over the weekend several western ex-elite soldiers experienced […]
By Jack Mirkinson People following the mainstream coverage of Ukraine are getting an excellent lesson in media double standards. Running alongside the ongoing horror of the war in Ukraine has been a pernicious thread of racism and hypocrisy in some of the coverage of the conflict. If you […]
By Caitlin Johnstone It’s just incredible how even after all this time, after all those wars, after all those lies, it’s not even occurring to most mainstream westerners to investigate whether the US could possibly have had anything to do with starting the war in Ukraine. There’s one […]
By Ankush Kumar, Yahoo News Desperate to avoid the shadow of Vladimir Putin’s bigoted regime falling over Ukraine, LGBTQ combat volunteers told The Daily Beast that members of the gay community had been rushing to prepare for this invasion of Ukraine in recent weeks. Now, they stand ready […]
By Indian Bronson Let us pray this ends soon, that peace talks proceed, and there is no escalation. Out of a genuine appreciation for my readers, who humor me by reading my self-important perspectives (What’s the Venn diagram of people who can read the title and get the […]
By Damon Linker, The Week How fast have events been moving over the past several days? So fast that my initial take on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, written Thursday morning, just hours after the war began, is already irrelevant. Then, I mainly expressed sadness at what I expected […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week It’s been quite a week in Europe: Switzerland has edged away from its longstanding tradition of neutrality. Finland is on the cusp of asking for admission into the alliance after decades of standing to the side. Germany, after a nearly 80-year break from […]
Research director at the European Expert Association, Maria Avdeeva, describes the atmosphere on the ground in Kharkiv after facing Russian rocket fire.
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.
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 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
“When you invade a sovereign country that’s a war crime.” Oh, the irony.
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…
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.
Robby Soave makes the case for rethinking the mission of NATO in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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 are joined by writer and podcaster Derek Thompson to better understand the economic effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and what Putin’s endgame could be
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
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 […]
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 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 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 Tessa Lena I am about to post a very interesting conversation with Riley Waggaman on “COVID Russia” (will send in a second) but before I do that, I want to emit a scream and talk about the war. Several things to say. One, this situation is terrible. […]
Krystal and Saagar deliver their final thoughts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine for today including why they were wrong and what the future holds for the Ukrainian people
Saagar looks back through Russian history to see why Putin’s belligerence when it comes to invading Ukraine could backfire in the long run.
“Kenya is gravely concerned by the announcement made by the Russian federation to recognize the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as independent states. In our considered view, this action and announcement breaches the territorial integrity of Ukraine. We do not deny that there may be serious security […]
Krystal and Saagar bring up to date news coverage of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that began last night and they discuss how it will change the geopolitical order for years to come
By Marcus Weisgerber, Global Business Editor, Defense One American aerospace and defense manufacturers could be caught in the crossfire as U.S. and western governments seek to punish Russia for invading Ukraine. Russia accounts for a relatively small but important part of such companies’ supply chains and customer base. […]
Krystal and Saagar provide detailed, in-depth coverage of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and how the world has responded so far in terms of the political leadership, financial markets, domestic populations, and what this means for our geopolitical future.
Russia Today Blasts have been reported in several Ukraine cities, as Moscow launched a “special operation” in Donbass. A series of explosions have been reported across Ukraine, with eyewitnesses saying blasts have occurred near a number of major cities as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order authorizing […]
It’s really simple: we have a multipolar system now and people need to get used to that. Under any multipolar system, if you do not want to move toward war, one great power does not pretend that its vital interests are at the doorstep of another great or […]
Biden should pre-record all his speeches and play them back at 2× the speed and he will sound somewhat normal.
LA Progressive WWII Redux: The Threatened Peoples of East Asia and Europe Can Stop the U.S. Drive to Restore Its Global Domination. “This is not going to be a war of Ukraine and Russia. This is going to be a European war, a full-fledged war.” So spoke Ukraine’s […]
by Benjamin Studebaker Most of the people writing about the Ukraine crisis are too busy trying to prove that they are on the right side to give decent analysis of it. They are worried about appearing too friendly to either Russia or the United States, and their career […]
Russia isn’t the only defense issue concerning President Biden — lately he’s had his eye on the heavens and decided it’s high time the US took to the skies and started raining hell down on its enemies… from space! In this call with Jimmy the President explains his […]
Krystal and Saagar bring the most recent developments with regards to the Russia-Ukraine situation as Vladimir Putin delivered a long, bizarre speech with major implications
If ever there was any doubt before, the Democrats have totally returned to their Wilson-FDR-Truman-JFK-LBJ roots as the pro-war party. And with the exception of neo-Taft Republicans like Tucker Carlson, the Republicans are still led by Reaganites and neocons on foreign policy as well. Krystal and Saagar respond […]
By Tucker Reals, Haley Ott, CBS News Kyiv, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday recognized the independence of two Russian-backed breakaway republics in the east of Ukraine. Following the announcement, Putin instructed the Russian Ministry of Defense to provide “peacekeeping functions” to the breakaway regions, but […]
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