By BORIS KAGARLITSKY
Photograph Source: Kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0
The special operation in Ukraine was conceived by Putin and his entourage as a way to turn the political situation around. The Kremlin strategists weren’t the least bit interested in the fate of...
Solomon Islands. Photograph Source: Alex DeCiccio – CC BY-SA 4.0Rarely has the Solomon Islands had as much attention as this. Despite being in caretaker mode as it battles the federal election, the government of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison...
BY RICHARD FALK
In my view it is best to understand the Ukraine Crisis as a two-level war with regional and global implications. The surprising strength of Ukrainian resistance has dramatized the magnitude of Moscow’s miscalculation in having anticipating quickly subduing...
By Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Russian invasion of Ukraine “is in many ways bigger than Russia, it’s bigger than Ukraine,” State Department spokesman Ned Price recently declared. “There are principles that are at stake here … Each and every country...
By April M. Short
Humanity’s future existence hinges on cooperation on a global scale. The greatest existential threats we face are worldwide problems that stem from the man-made climate disaster—and the massive decline in biodiversity, pollution, worsening storms, fires and...
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
Forty years back at the Kariavattom Campus, University of Kerala, Professor K. Raman Pillai (KRP) held out a truth in the middle of a lecture:...
While the United States began its illegal war against Iraq in 2003, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro spoke in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ‘Our country does not drop bombs on other peoples’, he said, ‘nor does it send thousands of planes...
by James M. Cypher in Monthly Review
After what seems a couple of decades of near quietude, Dwight Eisenhower’s bête noire, the military-industrial complex, is again fashionable. We see it in the 2021 outpouring of articles and books, a...
The Taliban's comeback in Kabul, after two decades, lends credence to a statement of sovereignty, autonomy, and independence of statehood in international relations. Geopolitical rivalry cannot be tantamount to supremacy or superior footing in vulnerable and sensitive geography in...
Photograph Source: Ukrinform TV – CC BY 3.0
“We have not yet seen a level of systematic deprivation of life of the Ukrainian people to rise to the level of genocide.” – National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, April 4, 2022.
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