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We Don’t Need to Go Back to Cold War Spending—We’re Already There

Hartung, Nick Cleveland-Stout and Taylor (*) – The Nation Before Washington embarks on a new Cold War, it’s time to remind ourselves of the global consequences of the last one. A growing chorus of pundits and policy-makers has suggested that Russia’s invasion of…

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The demise of the alter-globalist movement

By Francine Mestrum* – Wall Street International Magazine Why the World Social Forum and other movements are failing to shape another world Anyone who tries to dissect these movements easily sees where the problems lie and why there can be no global breakthrough If the pandemic…

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Get out, “Wall Street”. Water belongs to citizens and to life

INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF PARLIAMENTARIANS ON « LET’S FREE WATER FROM THE STOCK MARKET » The resolution,and committments From Belgium, Cameroun, Chile, Egypt, France, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Nicaragua, Palestine, Portugal, Quebec, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia, Uruguay…

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Putin and Gorbachev: night and day

 By Cecilia Capanna* Interview to Andrei Grachev, spokesman and advisor to the last Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev  Putin did not get crazy in a sudden, his plan has been clear for years. That’s what Andrei Grachev said, spokesman and advisor to the last…

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NATO’s Serbia assault set ‘moral’ precedent for Ukraine

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…

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A call to release migrant detainees in Ukraine

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…