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...
Photo credit: Al Jazeera
RUSSIA and Ukraine together account for 30 per cent of the world’s wheat exports. Many African countries, in particular, are heavily dependent on them for their food supplies, which are now getting disrupted because of the...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 Prabir Purkayastha
with the peace talks recently held in Turkey or the proposed 15-point peace plan, as the Financial Times had reported earlier, the fallout for the dollar still remains. For the first time, Russia, a major nuclear...
