By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! GUESTS: Yanis Varoufakis, member of the Greek Parliament and former finance minister of Greece, founder of the Progressive International with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.
By Thalif Deen* Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen that hit a detention facility in the northern city of Sa’ada, killed some 91 people and injured dozens more, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said, citing preliminary figures…
By Nikola Mikovic* – Asia Times On the anniversary of NATO’s 1999 bombing of Serbia, the debate on what constitutes ‘justified’ war rumbles on Some military interventions, at least according to mainstream Western narratives, are justified and some are simply illegal. Russia’s…
By Niamh Ní Bhriain* – EUobserver Over the past three weeks, Ukrainian people have become one of the largest refugee populations on the planet. But for much of the past decade, Ukraine, with the help of the EU, has acted as a border guard for Europe keeping those fleeing war and…
Fumiyasu Akegawa – Chair & CEO DEVNET International/Japan 1. Purposes of the invasion. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is said to have had three purposes.
By Rachel Pistol* – The Conversation The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked global outrage and a desire to show support for Ukrainian citizens. Many people who are not in Ukraine have felt desperate to do something positive, something that will help.
GLOBAL OPINIONS – The Washington Post This week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken officially recognized the crimes perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya as a genocide. For Wai Wai Nu, a Rohingya human rights and democracy activist and former political…
By Michael von der Schulenburg* As we write this article, Russia’s war against Ukraine is going into the fourth week with all its ferocity and there is no end to hostilities in sight. Daily, we see heartbreaking pictures of horrific human sufferings, the killing of civilians…
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! GUESTS: Stephen Zunes, professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco.
By Saif Ansari* – Jacobin Today is the 19th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. It was a catastrophic, illegal, murderous war — and Joe Biden was one its most important cheerleaders.
