But revelations about American and European boots on the ground are new, and could prove a dangerous and so far unexplained, wrinkle.

The alliance continues to be torn over Kyiv’s future membership, ignoring the dynamics that got us here in the first place.

The document says just under 100 troops from the US, Britain, France, and Latvia are in Ukraine

On April 7, 2023, Krishen Mehta joins the show to discuss his important and must read article entitled “Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine,” which was published on February 28, 2023 in CounterPunch.

Last week, the Financial Times reported that, “Bank of America cut short an online client conference on geopolitics and apologised to attendees after some balked at what they saw as pro-Russian comments about the war in Ukraine, according to three people who attended the event.

In an April 6 posting on his website, analyst Gilbert Doctorow cited a Russian media report that as many as 200 senior NATO generals and other high-ranking officers including 20 Americans were killed when an underground bunker where they were […]

Women at prayer being terrorised by devils in human form. Haven’t we been here before?

To scale the pinnacles of corporate, political or military power in the United States requires certain rigid deficiencies of character, specifically the absence of compassion, decency and humanity. In their personal lives, powerful individuals may possess these qualities, but as an elite class, they lack them utterly. How else to explain the abandoned cruelty of U.S. foreign policy since 1945, the wars, with napalm and Agent Orange in Vietnam, depleted uranium and white phosphorus in Iraq, the massive bombing campaigns that destroyed 85 percent of all buildings in Korea, to say nothing of the deliberate destruction of Iraq and Vietnam, the millions upon millions of dead all over the planet, the regime changes, setting countless countries back, developmentally, decades, even centuries, and installing fascist rulers throughout what used to be called the Third World?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine recently passed the one-year mark and I fear the country is on the verge of losing to Russia.

The Ukraine tragedy is a twofold thing. First, most obviously, there is the tragedy of the people killed or displaced, the damage to an already fragile economy and the widespread destruction of Ukraine’s physical infrastructure. Second, there is the tragic fact that it could all have been prevented.