By Eve Ottenberg
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
There is no daylight between presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump on the permanent war economy. Both tout the weapons industry as a source of jobs, jobs, jobs for Americans, never mentioning...
In the complex realm of contemporary Russia, social life has become a challenging cauldron of ideas, dissent, and resistance. Under the regime of President Vladimir Putin, the nation’s intellectual circles have traversed a disturbing path, marked by a delicate...
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Vector politics in Ukraine has added new dimensions to the 222 day-old conflict.
Typically, any conflict behavior should end when a new balance of powers has been determined. But the ‘balancing...
Michael Sergeyevich Gorbachev, MSB hereafter, the last president of the Soviet Union died on August 30, in Moscow. He was born on March 2 1931. President Putin of Russia, the successor state to the Soviet Union, paid his respects...
BY SANDY SMITH-NONINI
On February 24, as Russia invaded Ukraine, Guardian reporter Fiona Harvey posed the interesting question: “Is Putin’s Invasion About Fossil Fuels?” Indeed, modern warfare is enabled by fossil fuels. Historians have remarked on the decisive role that access...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres© Vladimir Astapkovich/POOL/TASS
By David C. SpeedieAs Americans ingest the constant feed of dire reports and heartbreaking photographs from the war in Ukraine, it behooves us to look at Europe’s views of...
Russia and the Nordic countries’ pavilions at this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, project two different concepts of civilisation, nationalism, and sovereignty that have come to blows in Ukraine.
Newly renovated, brooding, and inward-looking, Russia’s art nouveau...
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...
BY STANLEY L. COHEN
Cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick interventionism – Public Domain
Down with all colonial policy, down with the whole policy of intervention and capitalist struggle for the conquest of foreign lands and foreign populations, for new privileges, new...
THE juggling which US imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders,...
