By Michael Hirsh* For two years, Biden and Zelenskyy have been focused on driving Russia from Ukraine. Now Washington is discussing a move to a more defensive posture.
By Farhana Haque Rahman* – Inter Press Service The year 2023 has brought so much tragedy, with incomprehensible loss of lives, whether from wars or devastating ‘natural’ disasters, while our planet has seen yet more records broken as our climate catastrophe worsens. And so as…
Sachs *- Common DreamsUS foreign policy seems to be utterly irrational. The US gets into one disastrous war after another — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and Gaza.
By Aurora Weiss* VIENNA | 26 December 2023 (IDN) — More people were killed due to homicide than armed conflict and terrorism combined. It is estimated that there were roughly 458,000 victims of intentional homicide worldwide in 2021, meaning that an average of 52 individuals…
By Chris Stein* – The Guardian US Sudan watches allies turn from war to aid Ukraine and Gaza sudanese military conflict has killed thousands and created what UN says is world’s largest human displacement crisis The eruption of gunfire in Sudan’s capital on 15 April was not a…
Opinion – Newsweek The humanitarian situation in Gaza is dire. Since the Israeli bombardment began in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 spree of atrocities, tends of thousands of Palestinians have been killed and entire blocks flattened. The global outcry has been fierce, but in…
By Thomas Kennedy & Corey Hill (*) – Truthout Biden and Democrats are looking to resurrect — and in some cases expand — the Trump administration’s worst policies President Joe Biden and some Democrats in Congress are trying to make one hell of a bad deal. A recent…
By John P Ruehl* – Asia Times Once-promising era of Russia-West cooperation has nearly vanished, with crucial fragile remnants holding on by a thread In November 2023, Russia’s withdrawal from the 1990 Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty marked another…
Gideon Levy – Haaretz, Israel What if Benjamin Netanyahu hadn’t been prime minister for 16 years – would this terrible war not have broken out? Would the war have looked different?
By Patrick Lawrence* – ScheerPost “Putin’s Russia is closing in on a devastating victory. Europe’s foundations are trembling.” This was the headline atop a Dec.9 commentary in The Telegraph, the farthest right of the major London dailies.
