Disrupting the Russian presidential election and creating an atmosphere of weakness around Putin is precisely what the U.S. intelligence agency would seek to engender.

When the Cold War ended in 1991, NATO had just 12 member states: Today it has 32. Finland and Sweden have just joined and the number in the next couple of years will certainly grow to 34, if the Western World lasts that long. Do you feel safer? Really?

A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.

Clare Dalys talk at the Left Bloc Scoil Chois Claí, illustrating how the EU is already engaged in the process of Militarisation, how it plans to build a new force of 20,000 troops, and the threat this poses to Irish neutrality.

Ukraine is already opening up for big investment, and hand-rubbing has been happening over a potential business bonanza. War-hit Ukraine might not look like a good financial investment, with no end in sight. Kyiv engaged BlackRock and JPMorgan in 2023 to help set up a fund to raise public capital. But has the Russia-Ukraine war created a massive profit opportunity for leading U.S companies?

The calls for renewed U.S. global leadership are getting louder. They’re as mistaken as they ever were.

Mr. Warner voiced concerns that expanding NATO would increase the chances that American soldiers would be dragged into ethnic conflicts, similar to the debacles in Somalia and Vietnam…

Geoffrey Roberts, Emeritus Professor at University College Cork and member of the Royal Irish Academy talks Putin, Stalin and the War in Ukraine, with ACURA’s David Speedie and James W. Carden.

Part Three: The Bittersweet Birth of New Russia

The cast may change, but the play is the same.