By Caitlin Johnstone So Putin has finally made a move, issuing a decree formally recognizing the sovereignty of the separatist-held Donbas territories in eastern Ukraine known as the DPR and LPR. Russian troops are being deployed to the region in what Putin describes as a “peacekeeping” mission amid a […]
“…torture, forced disappearances, widespread human suffering…” Sounds like the US 21st century Middle East policy.
15:51 really cracked me up when Kyle opens a word document with his plans on how to stop world war
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen share their thoughts on the Biden Administration’s speculation that Russia has decided to invade Ukraine.
A diversionary foreign policy, or a diversionary war, is an international relations term that identifies a war instigated by a country’s leader in order to distract its population from their own domestic strife. The concept stems from the Diversionary War Theory, which states that leaders who are threatened […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week In remarks on the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine, President Biden told reporters on Friday that he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has made up his mind to invade. “As of this moment, I’m convinced he’s made the decision. We have […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Vice President Kamala Harris met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, The Hill reports. President Biden told reporters on Friday he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has made up his mind to invade Ukraine, but a […]
By Sara Sirota The Intercept Top foreign policymaker Sen. Bob Menendez couldn’t say whether his bill would monitor where U.S.-funded arms end up. While Senate Democrats consider a way forward to send Ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars so it can buy new weapons, some of the most […]
New York Times “What are you waiting for?” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine asked Western leaders in Munich, as Russian-backed rebels urged people to evacuate and shelling escalated in eastern Ukraine. [Read our latest news coverage of the Ukraine and Russia crisis.] Here’s what you need to know: […]
In my 35 years as a radical, opposition to US imperialism has always been my primary area of interest. By Darragh Roche Newsweek Fewer than one in six Americans want U.S. soldiers deployed to defend Ukraine if Russia invades the country, according to a new poll published on […]
If you want to know what the CIA wants you to think, just read the Bezos-owned WaPo. By Andrew Jeong, Alex Horton, Ellen Francis, Claire Parker and Timothy Bella The threat of renewed war in Ukraine escalated Saturday as shelling and military preparations by Russian-backed separatists picked up […]
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, YURAS KARMANAU, AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press See Biden’s warning to Putin from the White House KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday he’s “convinced” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to launch a further invasion in Ukraine, […]
By W. James Antle, The Week President Biden’s former boss might have told him that the 1980s called to ask for its foreign policy back. There was a heavy dose of Reaganesque “trust but verify“ in Biden’s response to Russia’s professed drawdown along the Ukrainian border. Biden is walking a careful line: The United States does not […]
By Damon Linker, The Week The fog of war has already descended on the border separating Russia from Ukraine. As recently as a day or so, things seemed to be moving in a hopeful direction, with word of Russian troop withdrawals and ongoing negotiations to avoid the outbreak […]
There is no consistency in the reporting on any “side” so every tale is accepted or rejected based on source, not how factual it is:
Kim Iversen details the Biden Administration’s apparent brush-off of the Army’s investigative report on the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Team Rising weighs in on reports that the White House plans to seek more than $770 billion in the 2023 defense budget.
Krystal and Saagar bring the latest updates on the Ukraine-Russia tensions as the Biden administration’s set date of a potential invasion passes and Ukraine torches western media
Team Rising reacts to President Joe Biden’s comments that “if Russia attacks Ukraine, it would be a war of choice — a war without cause or reason.”
Krystal and Saagar deliver the latest news on the Ukraine crisis that is happening as we speak with Russia deciding to withdraw troops and Ukraine’s president’s sarcasm rattling markets
By Sarah Sicard, Military Times Throughout 2020, America has faced a global pandemic, civil unrest after the death of George Floyd and a contentious election. As a result, an influx of fear about the possibility of the invocation of martial law or unchecked military intervention is circulating around […]
Director of Institute for Global Transformations in Kiev, Dr. Oleksiy Semeniy, Ryan Grim, and Robby Soave discuss the U.S. government’s circulation of intelligence claims that Russia may soon invade Ukraine, and whether those claims act as a deterrent or catalyst for war.
By Allen Zhong, Epoch Times The Department of Defense confirmed Saturday that some U.S. troops are leaving Ukraine. “Secretary of Defense has ordered the temporary repositioning of Florida National Guard troops out of Ukraine,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby wrote in a Twitter post. The move was ordered […]
By Noah Millman, The Week Why a growing list of countries might conclude they need the bomb. In Vienna, American and Iranian officials are racing to find a way back in to the abandoned 2015 deal to restrain Iran’s nuclear program before Tehran’s uranium enrichment advances so far it’s […]
By Scott Ritter Special to Consortium News In the quiet fields outside the sleepy college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, sits a bronze monument, in the form of an open book. Known as the “High-Water Mark of the Rebellion” monument, it contains the identities of the various military formations that, […]
By Ira Helfand The Nation Why do we fail to consider the danger? As the crisis in Ukraine deepens, it is appropriate to consider what the actual consequences of war there might be. An armed conventional conflict in Ukraine would be a terrible humanitarian disaster. Last week, US […]
By Stephen Wertheim New York Review of Books For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over. As Russia threatens a new invasion of Ukraine, a segment of politicians and pundits in Washington, […]
The only upside to a war between the USA and Russia is that the American Reich would probably come to the same end as the Third Reich.
By Caitlin M. Kenney and Jacqueline Feldscher Defense One President orders 3,000 more US troops to Poland; American citizens told to flee “immediate” threat in Ukraine. Three thousand more American soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Poland to reassure allies on NATO’s eastern flank as […]
Krystal and Saagar look at the Biden administration’s decision to ban journalists from getting access to troops deployed in Ukraine for a potential conflict with Russia
By Nick Turse, The Intercept New research offers an alternative to the war on terror as the Biden administration rethinks its counterterrorism playbook. On September 19, 2001, CIA officers collected cardboard boxes filled with $3 million in nonsequential $100 bills to buy off Afghan warlords, beginning America’s martial […]
LA Progressive In recent weeks both US and NATO have been stumbling toward confrontation with Russia over whether the Ukraine will be allowed membership in NATO. While there are various secondary issues on the negotiating table—deployment of US troops into Poland, Baltics and Romania and Russian natural gas […]
Monday, Jan 31 – Michael Hudson Michael Hudson’s many books include “Super Imperialism,” “Killing the Host,” “… And Forgive Them Their Debts,” “The Bubble and Beyond,” and “Global Fracture.” This provocative title invites genuine discussion about the state of the US economy, its failures and what this might […]
No, the obstacle is the military-industrial complex, war profiteers, the intelligence services, and the Israeli and Gulf State lobbies. By Damon Linker, The Week Three of the most prominent populist conservative writers around — Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen, and Gladden Pappin — have taken to The New York […]
By Grayson Quay The Week French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave him a guarantee that Russia would not make any aggressive moves against Ukraine, BBC reports. “I secured an assurance there would be no deterioration or escalation,” Macron said before meeting with […]
A fair point, but we should also beware of the antiwar Left, who often do an about-face as soon as a Democrat is in power and cooks up some “human rights” malarkey. By Joel Mathis The Week For most of my life, the anti-war movement — such as […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the U.S. commando raid that led to the suicide death of ISIS global leader Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi.
Krystal and Saagar respond to a confrontational back and forth between the spokesperson for Biden’s state department and an AP reporter on what exactly is happening in Ukraine
Accepting Ukraine into NATO will only escalate the situation and provoke Russia even more. Do this at your own peril.
They will end when the USA ends, which might not be that far away. By Murtaza Hussain The Intercept Biden’s claim that the world has been made safer by the killing of yet another terrorist leader is hard to credit. In a national address delivered this morning, President […]
By Caitlin Johnstone I’m declassifying evidence that Nigeria is planning a false flag operation in Switzerland. Are you ready? Here it is: Nigeria is planning a false flag operation in Switzerland. See, the evidence is me asserting it. If you doubt this evidence, you’re a propagandist for Nigeria. […]
Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs. John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, gave a series of three lectures in November on “Liberal Ideals & International Realities” […]
Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs. John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, gave a series of three lectures in November on “Liberal Ideals & International Realities” […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal…. It is no longer a question of imitation, nor […]
#Russia has maintained a threatening posture against Ukraine, including maintaining approximately 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian border. The United States and the United Kingdom have taken the lead in crafting a set of financial sanctions they are threatening to levy against Russia in the case of any aggression. […]
Primo Radical Today a coalition of anti-war and anti-imperialist organizations will be staging nationwide protests against the Biden Administration’s dangerous march to war with Russia. Please stand up and be counted! Make clear that the American people do not support placing more US troops in Eastern Europe, and […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Back in November, The Military Times published a Ukrainian intelligence claim, which was picked up and repeated by numerous other mainstream publications, alleging that Russia was going to invade Ukraine by the end of January. Then in late January when the calendar debunked the Military […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the new progressive push to share the U.S. military’s pan-coronavirus vaccine with the rest of the world.
Every bit of this story needs to be questioned, as always when dealing with strikes of this nature.
By Brendan Morrow The Week President Biden has announced the leader of ISIS has been killed during a U.S. raid in Syria. Biden said in a statement Thursday that U.S. military forces undertook a counterterrorism operation early Thursday, and “thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces, we […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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