Roger Waters

January 23, 2023

Here we go again. See my letter of a few months ago. Well today, we are STILL standing on the edge of a precipice, staring into the SAME abyss. The end of all life on earth is STILL a very real possibility. The reins of power are STILL in the hands of the oligarchs and […]

Gilbert Doctorow

January 21, 2023

This is the advice which social media say the U.S. Government is today giving to the Zelensky regime in Kiev. It follows by a day or two the public release by German intelligence operatives of their own assessment of the latest course of the war, saying that the stubborn resistance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces […]

Daniel Larison

January 19, 2023

Vladimir Milov insists that sanctions on Russia are “working”: Expecting immediate results is unrealistic and even counterproductive. Given time, sanctions may well deter Russia’s aggressive behavior. Sanctions advocates always point to sanctions’ economic destructiveness as proof that the policy is “working,” but in most cases this doesn’t lead to the targeted state making any of […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 19, 2023

From today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The New York Times is reporting that the Biden Administration is considering giving Ukraine the tools and the green light to attack Russia in Crimea, surmising that a lack of Russian escalation to this point means they will similarly not respond to a US-backed attack. What could go wrong? […]

William Astore

January 18, 2023

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. U.S. foreign policy is a place where logic goes to die. Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, said yesterday that the quickest way to end the Russia-Ukraine War is "to give Ukraine a strong hand on the battlefield," by which he meant more and more weaponry, […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 18, 2023

From today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The Biden Administration has just announced that it must dig into weapons it had stored in Israel and South Korea to shovel into the black hole known as Ukraine. Meanwhile the US Secretary of Navy has said that the US Administration is soon going to have to decide whether […]

Ray McGovern

January 17, 2023

This originally appeared at RayMcGovern.com. Ray appeared on Tommy’s Podcast (Thomas Harrington) January 14, 2023 on Rumble. I don’t think President Putin wants to occupy all, or even most, of Ukraine. That would be the kind of really stooooooped thing Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld would try to do. But, if the U.S. really wants to avoid war with […]

Daniel Larison

January 17, 2023

James Bosworth looks back at the failed experiment with U.S.-led international backing for Juan Guaidó as “interim” president of Venezuela: Disputed elections are far too common in Latin America, but only rarely has such a divide between the de jure and de facto presidencies recognized by the rest of the world lasted so long. For […]

Marcy Winograd

January 16, 2023

CODEPINK’s Marcy Winograd, Chair of the US-based Peace in Ukraine Coalition, interviewed Yurii Sheliazhenko, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, about the war in Ukraine and military mobilization against the Russian invasion. Yurii lives in Kyiv, where he faces routine electricity shortages and daily air raid sirens that send people running to subway stations […]

Walt Zlotow

January 15, 2023

On Rev. Martin Luther King Day I always reflect on the last year of his life. He kicked it off with his speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence" at New York’s Riverside Church, April 4, 1967, ahead of a massive antiwar rally eleven days later. A college senior at the time, I […]