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…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Not only is it possible to switch to renewables, but it’s also cheaper and would make economies less vulnerable. Yet, bizarrely, politicians and the fossil fuel industry, who are using the war on Ukraine to justify high gas…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* War in Ukraine: the world has just drifted into a new and serious phase that could lead to an even greater crisis As if the global crisis generated by the pandemic were not enough, the world has just drifted into a new and serious warlike phase…
By Samira Sadeque Africa can expect new spikes in COVID-19 every six months, a report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. The continent with its low vaccination rates could continue to be vulnerable.
Roach* – Project Syndicate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is in clear violation of principles that China has held sacrosanct for almost 60 years. There is no room for China to finesse that conclusion while remaining true to its core values.
By Fernando Ayala* – Wall Street International Magazine Foreign policy analysis On 11th March 2022, a new generation of politicians of the 21st century took the helm of the Chilean government and with it the foreign policy which, according to the current constitution, is the…
