Glimpses of an endgame in Ukraine
The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors. The Russian objectives of “demilitarisation” and “de-Nazification” of Ukraine wore a surreal look. The…
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How It May Have Been Possible to Avoid Ukraine Invasion?
Several persons whose commitment to peace and justice is well-established have argued that while the USA and its western allies were obviously wrong in taking several provocative actions against Russia,…
World Hunger and the War in Ukraine
On Monday, June 17, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, announced, “The Black Sea agreements are no longer in effect.” This was a blunt statement to suspend the…
Why and How Alternative Views on Future of Ukraine Should Emerge
The dominant view regarding what is desirable for a country, now and in future, is normally that of the internationally recognized government of the country. The present government of Ukraine…
Ukraine war takes its toll on UK politics
The NATO Summit in Vilnius on June 11-12 turned out to be an anti-climax with the fractured relationship between the regime in Kiev and the Western powers surging. What is…
NATO, Russia, the EU and Ukraine Urgently Need a Dialogue to End the War
The NATO summit at Vilnius, Lithuania ended without any tangible move for peacemaking. It was more a show of compelling solidarity to enlarge and sustain the conflicts between Russia, Ukraine…
Why Use of Cluster Bombs for ‘Liberating’ Territory Implies Serious Self-Harm Too
In the middle of an intensifying controversy over whether western countries should supply cluster bombs to Ukraine for use in the ongoing conflict, another issue that deserves serious attention is…
Stop Biden from Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
by Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd President Biden may have crossed a new red line for the Democratic Party when he announced he would send banned cluster munitions to shore…
What After Banned Cluster Bombs to Ukraine?
BERLIN 8 July 2023 (IDN) — "Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?" I am…
They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine
The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change: Freedom and…
Those committed to helping Ukraine must first decide what constitutes real help for the country’s people
Ukraine is a country where millions of people are in deep distress. Several million people have been displaced or face serious disruption of life. Hence certainly the people of Ukraine…
Sending cluster bombs to Ukraine, Washington makes clear it will stop at nothing
On Friday, the Biden administration said it would send cluster munitions—weapons that scatter unexploded bomblets across a wide area, killing and maiming civilians for decades—to Ukraine. Facing the failure of…
A Bankrupt Calculus: Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine
There is a certain desperation in the logic of those who argue that a depraved solution has merit because it’s only slightly less depraved than that of the opponent. Torture…
It Is Time To Rethink Neutrality, War & Mercenaryism in the World
Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, on June 22th 2023, in a voice note to his Telegram channel, declared, in a Reuters translation, ”We don’t want the country (Russia) to continue…
CIA Has Boots In Ukraine, A Newsweek Disclosure
The U.S. spy agency Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has boots on the ground in Ukraine and operates a clandestine supply network to help the government in Kiev to fight Russia,…
Confrontation With West To Last Decades, Ukraine Conflict Permanent, Says Russia’s Former President Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president, has warned that Moscow's confrontation with the West will last decades and that its conflict with Ukraine could become permanent. A Reuters report said: Medvedev,…
The Bizarre Episode of Yevgeny Prigozhin
More complete information is now available and reports of the event still do not “add up.” What we are told cannot be what exactly occurred. Coup is not thr correct…
Seymour Hersh, Forbes, Financial Times, Economist, CNN On War In Ukraine
Kiev’s inability to penetrate Russian defensive lines should serve as a “wake-up call” in Washington, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh warned on Thursday. Citing battlefield statistics obtained from an unnamed source, Hersh claimed that Ukrainian…
Prigozhin goes into exile but left behind a can of worms
On Monday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation for the second time with the intention to bring the curtain down on the coup attempt by Wagner “founder” Yevgeny Prigozhin on…
Is Ukraine being pushed towards long-term indebtedness and subservience?
Ukraine’s people desperately need a future based on welfare and peace, and this is what all of their sincere friends would desire, but in reality Ukraine is being driven towards…
MEP Mick Wallace – ‘What are the working-class people of Ukraine dying for?’
US neoconservatives like Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken are using Ukraine as the linchpin of their strategy to undermine and destabilise Russia. Since the start of the conflict in…
Hungary’s PM Calls for Ceasefire in the Ukraine Conflict
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called for a ceasefire in the conflict between Moscow and Kiev as soon as possible. He warned that otherwise Ukraine will “lose a huge amount…
Babbling about Prigozhin
A lot of nonsense is being spouted by a bevy of spontaneous “Russian experts” in light of the Prigozhin spray, a mutiny (no one quite knows what to call it),…
Increasing Urgency of Unconditional Ceasefire in Ukraine Conflict to Avoid Catastrophe
While the many-sided destruction that has taken place and is taking place in the Ukraine conflict is a matter of deep concern, there are two related matters which should cause…
Ten factors which can lead to the Ukraine proxy conflict becoming a direct war between two big powers
At what stage can a proxy war between two big powers become a direct war? This question has become very important in the context of the proxy war between the…
Prigozhin’s Revolt Reveals Dangers and Flaws of Depending on Mercenaries
Yevgeny Prigozhin may not have succeeded in realizing his ambitions, but his revolt had the unintended impact of focusing worldwide attention on the wider and serious problems involved in increasing…
The rise and fall of a Russian oligarch
The Kremlin leadership has acted decisively to meet the threat of an armed insurrection by the Russian oligarch and self-styled ‘founder’ of Wagner Group of military contractors, Yevgeny Prigozhin. In…
Sordid Urkanian war of private military companies and multi-national corporations
War Investors known as Corporate Asset Investment Corporations and Private Military Companies Private Military Companies, Soldiers of Fortune, Multi-National Investment Corporations and the enterprise of Mercenarism go hand-in-hand back to…
The Silent Slaughter of the Flower of Ukraine’s Youth
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies “Plans love silence. There’ll be no announcement of the start.” Photo credit: Ukraine Defense Ministry As Ukraine prepared to launch its much…
Why the supposed method in the madness of US foreign policy is still madness after all
When judged from the perspective of world peace and safety (which surely is the best perspective), recent US foreign policy based on instigating an endless Russia-Ukraine proxy war and arranging…
Everyday Imperialism and Working Class Politics
Imperialism has entered a new phase of its expansion to everyday lives of people and the planet. In this new phase of its growth, the grandiose of imperialism permeates everyday…
Possibility of Dam Failures and Collapses Deserves More Attention to Avoid Huge Disasters
The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro river is a matter of deep concern as it exposes a large number of people to severe dangers, hardships and…
Peace for Ukraine Courtesy of China? Another Step in Beijing’s Rise to Global Power
All wars do end, usually thanks to a negotiated peace agreement. Consider that a fundamental historical fact, even if it seems to have been forgotten in Brussels, Moscow, and above…
Ukraine–A Short History of 80 years
Ukraine is a strategically located country which is also well-endowed with natural resources in the form of vast stretches of fertile farmland and deposits of natural gas and lithium. It…
Vienna’s International Summit for Peace in Ukraine Issues a Global Call for Action
During the weekend of June 10-11 in Vienna, Austria, over 300 people representing peace organizations from 32 countries came together for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine…
Biden & Blinken “The Dr Strange Love Duo” of WWIII’s Nuclear Winter
Dr. Strange Love Biden & Dr. Strange Love Blinken, if true to form, will continue to misread the ideological state of today’s America’s Neo-Con, Neo-Fascist war in Ukraine, in the…
The Compulsion to Intervene – Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine
Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington Post columnist professes optimism about some upcoming bloodletting, misfortune tends to…
The US Government Should At Least Listen to this Wisdom of its Top Experts on the Ukraine Crisis
The US government has repeatedly asserted that Russia, and Russia alone, is responsible for the Ukraine conflict in which several hundred thousand persons have been killed and seriously injured while…
When Will US Join Global Call to End Ukraine War?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, there were glimmers of hope…
Shocking Lack of Concern for World’s Safety by War Mongering Elite
The very considerable support for continuing weapon supply to Ukraine by policy makers and supporting elites in most western countries is shocking. The decision of Britain to even supply depleted…
Both Blocs Behind Iron Curtain?
In the past, only the communist and socialist countries were pinpointed to be the countries under the “Iron Curtain.” But after the recent conflicts between the two blocs, it is…
CODEPINK Condemns the Violent Protesters at Medea Benjamin’s Ukraine Book Tour Event in Minneapolis
We strongly condemn the deplorable actions of some of the protesters at Medea Benjamin's book tour event on Friday, May 19 in Minneapolis, an event cosponsored by the local Veterans…
A Timely Call for Peace in Ukraine by U.S. National Security Experts
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On May 16, 2023, The New York Times published a full-page advertisement signed by 15 U.S. national security experts about the war…
The Economic Invasion of Ukraine which Started Much Before 2022
Following the notorious coup in Ukraine in 2014, supported by the USA and some allies, which ousted a democratically elected government, a number of very important changes took places in…
Sowing Seeds of Plunder: A Lose-Lose Situation in Ukraine
It’s a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying to defend their land, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests. So…
Ukraine Conflict: Chinese-proposed Peace Talks Could Begin By The End of 2023, Says Kissinger
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has told CBS News that the conflict in Ukraine may be approaching a turning point, and that Chinese-brokered peace talks could begin by…
Ukraine Needs Community-Based Rehabilitation and Reconstruction
What Ukraine needs today above all is a large-scale, sustained, community-based rehabilitation and reconstruction effort, with added emphasis on nutrition, health, care for the ill and the injured, and many…
Ukraine War Shifts to Economic Warfare
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, realized early, in his country’s invasion of Ukraine, that adversaries do not always fight wars on a battlefield. The realization that Russian military superiority could not…
China’s President XI JinPing Takes Initiative to Make Peace between Russia and Ukraine
Towards understanding the Impulse of Time, Nature of Things, Peace and Conflict Resolution Are we witnessing a time when most exemplary vigilance is subject to unthinkable surprises? We, the People,…
Important Chinese Intervention In Ukraine Imbroglio
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, have spoken over the phone, in their first official conversation since Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine more than…
Leaks Reveal Reality Behind U.S. Propaganda in Ukraine
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Leaked document predicts a “protracted war beyond 2023.” Image credit: Newsweek The U.S. corporate media’s first response to the leaking of secret…
Will the West Turn Ukraine into a Nuclear Battlefield? Why Depleted Uranium Should Have No Place There
It’s sure to be a blood-soaked spring in Ukraine. Russia’s winter offensive fell far short of Vladimir Putin’s objectives, leaving little doubt that the West’s conveyor belt of weaponry has aided Ukraine’s…
U.S. Must Stop Encouraging War In Ukraine, Says Lula
Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on Saturday: The U.S. and its allies should focus on promoting peace instead of fueling the Ukraine conflict by arming Kiev. Lula has concluded a state…
Why Citizens and Friends of Ukraine Should Present an Alternative Policy Framework
All available evidence regarding the present situation in Ukraine appears to suggest that the best course of action here would be to have an unconditional ceasefire as early as possible,…
Ukraine-Russia vs. Palestine-Israel: Exposing The Hypocrisy of the West
As Russian troops continue their assault on Ukraine, Western countries persist in invoking international law, imposing crippling sanctions against Russian leaders and entities while publicly supporting Ukrainian armed resistance and…
U.S. Top General On U.S. Ammunition Stockpile And Prospect Of Ukraine Winning The War
U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has commented on problems in stockpile of U.S. ammunitions and prospect of Ukraine winning the war this…
The War between Russia, Ukraine and the West Encroaching the Humanity towards Extinction
“The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were…
Why Ukraine Is Increasingly a Nuclear Headache for World Powers
Concern over Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons has been a constant feature of the Ukraine war. But Moscow has several ways to complicate Washington’s global nuclear outlook. On March…
What’s the Best Way Out from the War in Ukraine?
In view of the recent geopolitical upheavals, and particularly the war in Ukraine, it does not make sense (and does not promise much success) to build a new global security…
Xi’s ‘Chilling’ Remarks: A Multipolar World Offers Challenges and Opportunities to the Middle East and Africa
The final exchange, caught on camera between visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian host and counterpart, Vladimir Putin, sums up the current geopolitical conflict, still in its nascent…
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