Is Civilization at Stake in Ukraine?
Originally posted at TomDispatch. The name of the game in Ukraine seems to be escalation, not just in the fighting (with a major Russian offensive expected soon), but in weaponry, too. Only recently, after initially refusing, President Biden agreed to send advanced...
A Month’s Notice: Why Burkina Faso Ordered French Troops Out of the Country
Though it was clear that Burkina Faso was eventually going to follow in the footsteps of Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR), Ouagadougou’s decision to break military ties with France was not as simple as media sound bites want us to believe. The conventional...
Feb. 19: We Need a Huge Rage Against the War Machine
We urgently need to spark a mass mobilization antiwar movement in North America. There have been good antiwar demonstrations in recent months, but they have been very limited. We need to rapidly expand tenfold. The Feb. 19 Rage Against the War Machine initiative,...
Will the New Peace Deal Finally End the Conflict in Yemen?
For anyone following the conflict in Yemen, the news about a new peace being made will sound like a broken record, but there is genuine optimism about the truce that has been hashed out over the last month in Yemen. At the end of December last year, I wrote an article...
US Big Defense, the Only Winner of the Ukraine Proxy War
Not only do these global military contractors arm Ukraine, but they stand to benefit from the re-militarization of Western Europe, Japan, and the new NATO members. To Russia and Ukraine, the crisis is an existential issue. To the US and NATO, it's a regime-change...
First National Rally Against Ukraine War, Threat of Armageddon: Feb.19
We in the United States are on the brink of war with a major nuclear power, Russia. If that is not a dire emergency, an acute existential threat, what is? This situation has persisted for a year now without a national protest to stop the slide to Armageddon. Given the...
US-China: How the News Distracts From the News
The news over the past several days has been dominated by the shooting down by the US and Canada of four objects over their airspace. Despite widespread assumptions, US officials are still trying to identify what the last three objects are. They were "not able to...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Seven Killed
Two Cheers for Matt Gaetz’s Ukraine War Resolution
On February 9, US Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and ten Republican co-sponsors introduced a resolution “expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States must end its military and financial aid to Ukraine, and urges [sic] all...


