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Alarm over Kim Jong Un’s Russia Trip
Weapons Deals and Heightening Tensions Alarm bells are ringing in Tokyo, Seoul, and Washington over Kim Jong Un’s transactions during his 6-day stay in Vladivostok. He visited a full range of Russian...
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Death Wish 2023
There can be few safer indicators of the views of the globalist “liberal” Establishment than reports of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, which prefers to be known as Chatham House. Chatham...
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TrumPutin Horror Show
“You will not replace us!”–tiki torch MAGA marchers The psychological phenomenon known as projection is nowhere as glaring as with white nationalists, most of whom are direct descendants of people who...
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That Other War: Open Letter About Ukraine to Progressives in Congress
It’s long past time that you spoke up for genuine diplomacy to bring an end to the horrible war and human suffering in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion was criminal. Now, the war is stalemated and neither...
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The ‘Absolute Right’ To Commit War Crimes? Gaza, Israel And Labour ‘Opposition’
The attacks by Hamas fighters in southern Israel on 7 October, and the Israeli air attacks on Gaza that have followed, and now the unfolding humanitarian disaster there, once again expose fundamental...
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Germany’s Ex-Leader Says the US Stopped Ukraine From Signing a Peace Deal...
In a much-cited interview, ex-German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has stated that a compromise peace to end the war in Ukraine was well within reach when negotiators met in Istanbul last spring. This...
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Israel, Ukraine, the Border: What’s in Biden’s $105 Billion Military Bill
Originally in National Priorities Project Last week, the White House released President Biden’s request for $105 billion in military and related aid related to wars ongoing in Ukraine, Gaza, and wars...
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Europe Agonizes In Gaza
Europe is a small corner of a vast continent called Eurasia stretching from Cape Roca to Cape Dezhnyov – a vast continent with a very rich history. In that small corner, what we call the Iberian...
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As War In Ukraine Grinds On, U.S. Officials Focus On Black Sea
U.S. officials view the war in Ukraine as a way of achieving geopolitical objectives in the Black Sea, an energy-rich region that connects Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. At two recent...
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Free Agents?
‘Agency’ might be the word of the decade so far. When applied to the Ukraine war, the term is usually taken to mean that we must follow the lead of Ukrainians themselves – keeping mum about peace...
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How the U.S. Has Darkened the Nuclear Cloud Over Humanity
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race, the relative culpability of both...
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On How Israeli/US War Crimes in Gaza Are Orders of Magnitude Worse Than Those...
The Biden administration has spent most of its diplomatic energy since the February 24, 2022, Russian invasion of Ukraine marshaling the world to punish the Russian Federation, to boycott its petroleum...
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Finland vs. Stalin and a Possible Endgame for Ukraine
As public support for Ukraine has waned over time, and Washington’s policy elites are shifting their focus more toward the conflict in Gaza, an endgame for Ukraine is desperately needed. U.S. and...
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Ukraine Needs a Cease-Fire, Not Biden’s $50 Billion Escalation
It’s clear that Ukraine needs more support. What isn’t clear is why the latest White House spending package includes $50 billion in additional military funding, which is more than Ukraine has received...
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Ukraine’s Trade Unions Face Russian Invasion and Homegrown Attacks on Labor...
When airport worker Andrey Chuba signed up for service in the Ukrainian military, it was partly to get away from another conflict. The year was 2020, when the war with Russian proxy forces was...
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Something Lost, Never to Be Found Again
A strange ennui and distracted attention envelops the West today. Hat-tip to Simplicius’ Bones of Tomorrow, in which he reflects on a Culture that has become debased; its lures that used to trap us...
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My Trip to Syktyvkar
I was going to the airport to meet my wife, who was returning from abroad on July 25 last year. But the meeting did not take place. Two polite young men approached me and, presenting their FSB officer...
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Two Years Into the Ukraine War, Europe Has No Strategy
After ratcheting up pressure on Hungary in recent weeks, European leaders have convinced premier Viktor Orbán to stop blocking a crucial extension of aid for Ukraine’s war effort. The deal emerged from...
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“Nobody Could Prepare You for the War”: Interview with Croatian Feminist...
Biljana Kašić is a feminist theorist as well as peace and civil activist from Croatia. She is one of the leaders of the Centre for Women’s Studies (Zagreb), the co-founder of many feminist initiatives...
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Throwing Good Money After Bad in Ukraine?
As U.S. House members grapple with whether to give $60 billion more to Ukraine, they must also grapple with the checkered nature of the intelligence they’ve been fed. On July 13, 2023, President Joe...
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After Two Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in...
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After 2 Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, or DPR, in...
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Ukraine War and the Ghost of Clausewitz
This week, February 24, 2024 marks the beginning of the third year of the war in Ukraine. Hundreds, if not thousands, of assessments of the first two years of the war will be published, heard, or...
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Are We Stumbling Into World War III in Ukraine?
President Biden began his State of the Union speech with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion dollar weapons package for Ukraine “will put Ukraine at risk, Europe at risk, the...
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Failed ICJ Case Against Russia Backfires, Paves Way for Genocide Charges...
As January became February, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a pair of legal body blows to Ukraine and its Western backers. First, on January 31, it ruled on a case brought by Kiev...
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Unjust Wars and a Just Peace
The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and the global. In the Hamas-Israeli conflict, we see how the maintenance of...
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House Passes $95 Billion Foreign War Bills
US lawmakers passed a raft of legislation containing some $95 billion in military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, also approving a bill that will allow Washington to hand Kiev assets seized from...
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5 Reasons Why What Congress Just Did Does Not Help Ukraine
You may have heard that the U.S. Congress is finally doing the decent, moral, liberal, democratic, Democratic thing and aiding Ukraine. You may believe, as pretty much everyone I ask tells me, that...
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Ukraine War Funding & Failed Russian Sanctions
This past weekend, April 20, 2024 the US House of Representatives passed a bill to provide Ukraine with another $61 billion in aid. The measure will quickly pass the Senate and be signed into law by...
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Our Leaders Seem Determined To Give War A Chance. Their Thirst For Conflict...
The protagonists of 1914 were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseeing, haunted by dreams, yet blind to the reality of the horror they were about to bring into the world.” Christopher Clark’s The...
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