Photo by Nick Tsybenko
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time,” British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey famously remarked to a friend in August 1914. He was, of course, dead...
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...
Paul Street
Image by Jade Koroliuk.
As we approach the second anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s worth reflecting on who bears the main responsibility for the subsequent “inter-imperialist US-Russia proxy war,” an epic slaughter that produced 500,000 deaths and injuries...
Photograph Source: Andrew Russell – CC BY 2.0
Painted Russian wooden dolls of decreasing size one inside the other used to be a symbol of Russia as a mysterious and menacing place. This was the unmistakable message carried by the dolls in...
Photo: Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky (L) met US President Joe Biden at Hiroshima, Japan, on May 21, 2023
Ukraine President Zelensky and US President Biden met on the sideline of the G7 Summit at Hiroshima within hours of the statement from...
peaker-in-Waiting Kevin McCarthy recently warned that a Republican majority in the House will be skeptical about continuing aid to Ukraine for its struggle against the Russian invasion. This is just one sign of a decay in the consensus in...
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,...
By ULRIKA MODÉER and TSEGAYE LEMMA
We are learning every day how quickly our world can change. New challenges are coming faster and with more severity, but each underscores the same reality: that we are all connected.
The world was clinging...
Photograph Source: Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Mobley, U.S. Navy – Public Domain
Following months of debate, the Biden administration has decided to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, weapons that more than 120 countries have pledged not to use because...
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This first appeared in the Cradle
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...
