These are the comments of a man with a very unique perspective, a man who served as an economic advisor (in succession) to Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian presidents. Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, is an “American economist, academic, public policy analyst,…
Every citizen of planet Earth should watch this brief (4-minute) explanation by Scott Ritter, former United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspector. I picked up a reference to this terrifying tidbit on Yves Smith’s Naked Capitalism newsletter (where I find most of my interesting sources). Here’s how she introduces it: Embedded within this post…
Think about why the West wants to invoke WWII and the Cold War here, and then ask whether it’s been productive. By Stephen Kinzer Senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University Originally published by Responsible Statecraft on February 21, 2023 Reprinted by permission of the author and…
” … what should an alert and knowledgeable American citizenry know about the role our government has played in fomenting the crisis in Ukraine, a role that the corporate media has swept under the rug? That is one of the main questions we have tried to answer in our book War in Ukraine: Making Sense of…
[Editor’s Note: Years ago, when Biden was just a senator, Jane and I used to enjoy seeing him interviewed on the Sunday programs, because he could frequently be counted on to make some gaffe, which — as it is commonly understood in Washington — means inadvertently telling the truth. I thought of this while…