SCOTT RITTER: Requiem for NATO’s Nightmare

ScottRitter

July 28, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky emerges as a tragic figure in the unfolding drama that is the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Anti-Imperialism is Both Morally Correct and Absolutely Necessary for the Left

EliasKhoury

July 28, 2023

 Foreign policy matters. When progressives neglect to take an anti-imperialist stance, it allows cynical charlatans like Donald Trump to outflank them and score easy political points.

Washington demands renewed bloodbath in Ukraine

AndreDamon

July 28, 2023

This week, Ukraine began a major new phase of its offensive in the US-NATO war against Russia, resuming armored attacks against well-defended trenches.

Free After 17 Years in Prison For a Rape He Didn’t Commit

JoeLauria

July 27, 2023

The United States has a long history of wrongfully convicting and imprisoning people only to release them after years in prison after new evidence emerges.  It has just happened in the U.K. too.

Tightening the Ukraine-NATO Knot

TedSnider

July 19, 2023

On July 11 and 12, NATO leaders met in Vilnius Lithuania for the annual NATO summit. The important summit brought into focus the many contradictions and conundrums in the difficult NATO-Ukraine knot.

If You Don’t Want To be Treated Like Amazon, Don’t Promise To Be Like Amazon

TedSnider

July 25, 2023

In a rare public display of division and lost tempers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Western partners exchanged expressions of frustration with each other at the recent NATO summit in Vilnius Lithuania. The exchange exposed more than their frustration. It exposed raw questions about the origins and endings of the war in Ukraine.

شاهزاده

اگر باید دوستت داشته باشند یا از تو بترسند، مورد دوم بهتر است.ا

نیکولو ماکیاولی

Why Capitalism is Leaving the US in Search of Profit

RichardD. Wolff

July 21, 2023

Early U.S. capitalism was centered in New England. After some time, the pursuit of profit led many capitalists to leave that area and move production to New York and the mid-Atlantic states. Much of New England was left with abandoned factory buildings and depressed towns evident to this day. Eventually employers moved again, abandoning New York and the mid-Atlantic for the Midwest. The same story kept repeating as capitalism’s center relocated to the Far West, the South, and the Southwest. Descriptive terms like “Rust Belt,” “deindustrialization,” and “manufacturing desert” increasingly applied to ever more portions of U.S. capitalism.

The Cost of Re-Enforcing Political Monocultures

Ralph Nader

July 21, 2023

In nature, monocultures are not so resilient to predators or other ravages that exploit their inherent vulnerabilities. Farmers have known this characteristic of monocultures forever. (Agribusiness doesn’t care as much, given its short-term profit outlook.)

5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World

ClaireCameron

If your language had no words to describe “the future,” would you still stress over it?

I went to my neighbor’s house for something to eat yesterday.

World Hunger and the War in Ukraine

VijayPrashad

July 20, 2023

On Monday, June 17, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, announced, “The Black Sea agreements are no longer in effect.”

Texas Book Ban Bills Set a Dangerous Precedent for the Narratives of Young People in Education

CameronSamuels

July 18, 2023

Amid an unprecedented wave of censorship, many of our state legislators have left no mercy for LGBTQ+ Texans. Censorious legislation like House Bill 900 and Senate Bill 13 attempt to relate queer identity with sexual obscenity. The bills target educators’ expertise and diminish students’ right to read in a vitriolic attack on queer identity, and more broadly, the agency young people wield in our own education.

Protests Erupt In Northern Iran Amid Attempts To Enforce Hijab Rules

RadioFree Europe Radio Liberty

July 18, 2023

Protests have erupted in the northern Iranian city of Rasht following an attempt by government officials to arrest three women over violations of mandatory hijab rules amid reports that the country’s leadership has ordered the resumption of so-called “morality police” patrols.

بشریت

 ما خود را انسان می نامیم، گونه ای که در حدود دو ممیّز سه میلیون سال پیش به طور قابل توجهی از سایر پستانداران منشعب شد

They Lost Their Legs. Doctors and Health Care Giants Profited.

Medical device makers have bankrolled a cottage industry of doctors and clinics that perform artery-clearing procedures that can lead to amputations.

KatieThomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff

July 15, 2023

Kelly Hanna’s leg was amputated on a summer day in 2020, after a Michigan doctor who called himself the “leg saver” had damaged her arteries by snaking metal wires through them to clear away plaque.

Corals are starting to Bleach as Global Ocean Temperatures hit Record Highs

Ian Enochs

July14, 2023

The water off South Florida is over 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) in mid-July, and scientists are already seeing signs of coral bleaching off Central and South America. Particularly concerning is how early in the summer we are seeing these high ocean temperatures. If the extreme heat persists, it could have dire consequences for coral reefs.

The Biden doctrine: “As long as it takes,” or “No matter how many die”

AndreDamon, David North

July 14, 2023

On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden addressed a raucous mob of xenophobic Lithuanian nationalists in Vilnius following the conclusion of a NATO summit that pledged to massively expand military spending in preparation for global war.

As America’s Influence Wanes, China’s Grows

Ted Snider
July 06, 2023
Individually, each step is a small step barely picked up by the news. But in recent weeks, the world has been vibrating with multipolarity.

دنیای جدید

آمریگو وسپوچی اولین کسی بود که نام سرزمین ناشناخته‌ای را که با کشتی به سوی آن رفت، دنیای جدید نامید. در سال هزار و پانصد و سه میلادی، وسپوچی مرزهای جدید را ابداع کرد، و در نامه‌ای از پرتغال به لورنزو مدیچی در اسپانیا نوشت "به نظر می‌رسد که باید آنرا دنیای جدید بنامیم". البته این دنیا برای او جدید بود، زیرا در آن زمان میلیون‌ها نفر در آن مکان و در قبایل مختلف و سکونت‌گاه‌های جمعی زندگی می‌کردند. کشف آمریگو بعداً به نام او قاره آمریکا نامگذاری شد. او در همان نامه ادامه می‌دهد که قاره‌ای در آن قسمت جنوبی یافته‌ است، پر از حیوانات و پرجمعیت‌تر از اروپا، آسیا یا آفریقا، و حتی معتدل‌تر و دلپذیرتر از هر منطقه دیگری که می‌شناخته است.ا

Prigozhin’s Rebellion: What Just Happened in Russia?

Ted Snider

June 28, 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader the Wagner group, has ended his siege of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and turned around his march on Moscow. It is not clear what happened nor what was staged and what was real. Each expert and commentator offers a different expert commentary.

Will US-Iran talks in Oman allow the two Countries to avoid War?

JuanCole

July 2, 2023

Late in 2022, the Biden administration announced that it had given upon on negotiating a restoration of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA), which Donald Trump destroyed in May 2018 by ripping it up and slapping what amounts to a financial and trade embargo on Iran.

Prigozhin goes into exile but left behind a can of worms

M.K. BHADRAKUMAR

June 28, 2023

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 June 23-24. It was quintessentially a self-congratulatory speech — well-deserved, perhaps.

The Supreme Court just struck down Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. Here’s Plan B.

ChristianPaz

June 30, 2023

Though the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday to strike down President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student loans, student debt relief might still be happening, albeit a little slower than with the original plan.