By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* – MEER Information warfare on European soil Information war: the aim is to prolong the war for as long as it serves the interests of those who promote it The North Atlantic media axis is currently engaged in an unprecedented information war. During…
By Kelly Petillo* – European Council on Foreign Relations If Turkey and other countries begin deporting more Syrians back to Syria, Europe could experience a new wave of arrivals. European policymakers need to devise a more sustainable, longer-term approach to the issue.
By Nick Corbishley – Naked Capitalism Two of Latin America’s most respected dignitaries say the unspeakable about the conflict in Ukraine, setting blood to boil in Western corridors of power. TIME magazine’s interview of the former, and quite possibly…
Fernando Reyes Matta* Both the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world with its effects on flows of health equipment and on economic and social developments, as well as the tendencies to create security blocs and economic protectionism and, more recently, the war in…
Todd Miller* – TomDispatch / Truthout First, it was the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicles speeding along on the road in front of our campsite. Then it was the Border Patrol’s all-terrain vehicles moving swiftly on a ridge above us.
Analysis, Frank Ledwidge* – Asia Times / The Conversation It is now official US and NATO policy to damage Russia’s armed forces to a degree that it will take a very long time to recover Nothing like a coherent strategy emerged from 20 years of NATO’s war in Afghanistan; at best…
Interview with Roberto Savio – by Cecilia Capanna The intrinsic limits and contradictions of the United Nations Peace to be pursued, war crimes to be persecuted: this was the main mission of the United Nations at its birth, this was the great illusion in 77 years of wars…
By Adam Tooze* – The Guardian The aim of the billions committed through the Lend-Lease plan could tip the geopolitical balance. History may be about to repeat itself In the spring of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Washington DC seems haunted by the ghosts of history.
By Richard Rubenstein – CounterPunch Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, it was fair to call the ensuing conflict “Putin’s war.” True, the U.S. and Europe could probably have avoided the invasion by calling a halt to NATO expansion and negotiating seriously…
By Anthony Feinstein* – Special to the Globe and Mail From Oslo, the co-founder of the Democratic Voice of Burma radio station tries to get the raw facts about a homeland he hasn’t seen in 24 years When Myanmarese journalist Aye Chan Naing was 22 years old, he did something…
