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...
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...
UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited sites of suspected war crimes in Ukraine on Thursday, where he condemned the “evil” acts committed against civilians and urged criminal accountability.
The UN chief’s visit to the Kyiv suburbs of Borodianka,...
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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...
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...
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.
Here we...
by Richard Falk
Photograph Source: Mvs.gov.ua – CC BY 4.0
The deepening current Ukraine Crisis is properly linked to the Russian aggression that commenced with a massive military attack against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and has continued to ravage the...
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...
Food and Agricultural Organization
Concerning humanitarian crisis and the importance of agriculture
The war in Ukraine has pushed 15.7 million people to be in need of humanitarian assistance and forced massive population displacement. Over 5.1 million people have fled the...
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...
