You've no doubt heard the story of the crisis in Ukraine by now. But, as we've been told all our lives, there are two sides to every story. So, which side of the story have you heard?
Update (1750ET): There's now an EU-wide consensus on supplying Ukraine with arms amid reports that large columns of ground and armored forces are moving closer to Kiev, and as fighting rages across other parts of Ukraine.
John Mearsheimer, an author, political scientist and international relations scholar, gave a lecture in 2015, The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis, that has garnered over 11 million views on Youtube, and it is relevant today.
Following in the footsteps of Europe, on Monday the Biden administration banned U.S. people and companies from doing business with the Bank of Russia, the Russian National Wealth Fund and the Ministry of Finance.
--Suspends Stock Trading On Moscow Exchange
With the ruble plunging overnight after the West imposed tough new sanctions over the war in Ukraine, crashing as low as 115 against the dollar with the USDRUB last seen just south of 100...
In a remarkable show of force and unity, western powers cast aside all their previous concerns about Russian energy export dominance, and uniliaterally announced the nuclear option of imposing sanctions on the Russian central bank coupled with target
Chris Hedges introduces his latest article for Scheer Post, titled "Chronicle of a War Foretold", with the following:
"After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion wou
As of this writing, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is hunkered down in his bunker somewhere in Kiev, as the sound of the encroaching war gets closer and closer. A grim scene, to be sure.
Switzerland's historic neutrality is no longer: moments ago Reuters reported that the Swiss government had joined the EU in adopting sanctions on Russia, freezing assets of targeted companies and people effective immediately.
The US shouldn't have poked the Russian Bear. Now it is fully awake: after Ukraine, the Russians are likely to do a clean sweep of foreign belligerents poking around the East Med and the Black Sea.
Vladimir Putin's inflammatory speech, in which he set out his aim to reconstitute the Russian empire and blamed Lenin for its demise, and his decision to back this up with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, signals the return of geopolitics.
Russians turn on Putin: Massive anti-war protests break out in Moscow and St Petersburg for fourth day in a row - as Kremlin threatens to jail 'traitors' who offer to help Ukraine
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Think back to 2014 when the US overthrew the Ukrainian government and installed a neo-Nazi regime. The neocons were smirking, laughing at how easy it was to buffalo the Russians.
Pilger, based in the UK, took to Twitter to voice his view of the West's condemnation of Russia's special military operation aiming to defend the people of Donbass as well as "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine.
"People think nothing could have been done to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine, but that's absurd," bravely writes outspoken realist Michael Shellenberger in a Twitter thread that is bound to get him accused of being 'treasonous' or promoting 'Ru