A monument at Oakville Cemetery in Canada was removed because it was dedicated to the memory of nazi combatants. But there are still some in other countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and most European countries.

You can’t really blame the Pope Francis for bringing up negotiations

In his State of the Union address, Biden was the face of the U.S. imperium as it insists on prolonging itself. This is not a role with any originality or vision.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated a rivalry for leadership between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron, while revealing the profound differences in strategic approaches between the two countries.

The spectre of Armageddon has been raised often enough during the 2-year old war in Ukraine that the reference to it in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state of the union address on Thursday had a familiar ring about it. Therein lies the risk of misjudgement on the part of the western audience that Putin was only “crying wolf”.

Hawaiians respond to a threat of nuclear attack and a survivor tells of coping with the Hiroshima bombing. Cold War era fears and tensions about nuclear weapons resurface in our era, and take us back in time to – once again – face the prospect of an apocalypse of our own making.

In the context of what is at least a temporary cessation of US aid to Ukraine, President Macron of France and the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, have been disseminating the idea of a coalition.

“If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you, he will not,” President Biden said during his State of the Union address on Thursday night. Europe is “at risk,” he added, as he welcomed Ulf Kristersson, the prime minister of Sweden, the newest member of NATO.

“If you go right, you’ll lose your horse, go straight,
you’ll lose your head, go left,
you’ll lose both your horse and head,
but there’s no way back.” – A Russian fairy tale about Ilya Muromets.

On the two-year anniversary of Russia’s launch of the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, I sit down for a conversation with my colleague and friend, Dr. Nicolai Petro, Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island.