by Mira Oklobdzija | Mar 10, 2022 | War & Peace
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russians and Ukrainians are brothers but that Ukrainians have been brainwashed. Following this reasoning, the Kremlin is sending allegedly clear-headed and well-informed Russian soldiers to fight their poor, brain-damaged...
by John Feffer | Mar 2, 2022 | War & Peace
The last surviving member of the International Brigades that fought the fascists in Spain in the 1930s died last year at the age of 101. Josep Almudéver Mateu, born in France, remembered going into battle without any ammunition for his gun. Five kilometers into his...
by Phyllis Bennis | Feb 25, 2022 | War & Peace
The illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine is already causing enormous suffering. Our first concern must be for civilians across the country, now facing violence and displacement. And our first call must be for an immediate ceasefire, a pull-back of Russian troops from...
by John Feffer | Nov 6, 2019 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev
In fantasy sports, participants draft their own dream teams out of the rosters of existing players. That’s what Donald Trump has done with Ukraine. He and his advisors have created a fantasy team involving a number of key players, including the Ukrainian president,...
by Conn Hallinan, Leon Wofsy | Jun 22, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Energy, Environment, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
There’s something fundamentally wrong with U.S. foreign policy. Despite glimmers of hope — a tentative nuclear agreement with Iran, for one, and a long-overdue thaw with Cuba — we’re locked into seemingly irresolvable conflicts in most regions of the...
