EDITORIAL, By Jan Oberg* – TRANSCEND Media Service Since Russia’s foolish and totally unacceptable war on Ukraine started, there no longer seems to be any limit to what can be said about Russians and Russia and what can be done to isolate the country and its people economically…
By Mike Ludwig* – Truthout As thousands of antiwar Russians flee their country or remain trapped there due to devastating economic sanctions, President Vladimir Putin made a chilling video address to the Russian people on Thursday in an attempt to justify his…
By Kaamil Ahmed – The Guardian Agencies forced to cut back aid in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Ethiopia despite growing need as funds go to Ukraine Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put huge pressure on an already shrinking pot of international aid. Aid agencies working in…
By Yanis Varoufakis* Interest rates will have to rise without jeopardising the green transition. It’s a difficult task, but it can be done Inflation is a disease that disproportionately afflicts the poor. Even before Vladimir Putin unleashed his brutal war on Ukraine, whose…
Kern Hendricks* KABUL, Mar 17 2022 (IPS) – While all eyes are on Ukraine, Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis has been forgotten. But only with international aid can Afghans build a future. When US President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union Speech on 2 March, the…
BY CHRIS HEDGES* – CounterPunch The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world’s chess board, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating…
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! GUESTS : Sarah Leah Whitson – Executive director of the human rights organization Democracy for the Arab World Now. As the U.S. and U.K. push for Saudi Arabia to increase oil production to offset a rise in global energy prices amid…
By Branko Marcetic – Jacobin Opposing Vladimir Putin’s horrific war in Ukraine is no reason to target ordinary Russians or Russian culture. Anti-Russian bigotry won’t bring peace to Ukrainians We cringe today at those episodes in history when wars have broken out, and the…
In addition to the tragedy we witness every day, the war in Ukraine has meant that other terrible bloody conflicts or places where, in order to survive, people need humanitarian aid on which millions of vulnerable people depend for survival, have simply have taken a back seat in…
By Nathan Akehurst* – Jacobin In Europe, the volunteers welcoming Ukrainian refugees are often the same people attacked for aiding refugees in the Mediterranean. That’s not just hypocritical, it’s inhumane — we should welcome all migrants fleeing war and terror. Across Europe…
