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Dan Froomkin: The American media is failing us on Ukraine

RSMay 10, 2022

As the US moves toward a proxy war against Russia, reporters aren’t asking tough questions about what that actually means.

 

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VIDEO: PBS NewsHour: John Mearsheimer: U.S. shifts goals on war in Ukraine

PBSMay 9, 2022

During the past few months the Biden administration’s rhetoric about its ultimate goals for Ukraine appears to have shifted, with more talk about winning the war against Russia. Evelyn Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute at Arizona State University, and John Mearsheimer, political science professor at the University of Chicago, join Judy Woodruff to discuss.

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David Hendrickson: The West’s Economic War Against Russia Is Imperiling the World

TNIMay 9, 2022

The economic war is most unlikely to affect the outcome of the Ukraine War, but it does seem likely to produce outcomes that will prejudice energy security and the climate agenda, while falling hardest on the world’s poor.

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ACURA’s Anatol Lieven: Reckless and ruthless? Yes. But is Putin insane? No.

RSMay 6, 2022

Declaring someone irrational leads to a place in which no one wants to negotiate, because, no one wants to talk to crazy people.

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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Women of the World Call for Peace Now

Cynthia LazaroffMay 6, 2022

Women of the World Call for Peace Now featuring Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire; Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez; and Dr. Paula Garb Tuesday, May 10th 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Pacific Time via Zoom. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__jd9s-g7SKqmyZo2o41jiQ

 

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VIDEO: Larry Wilkerson and Paul Jay: Ukraine and the Doomsday Machine

analysis newsMay 5, 2022

There are serious discussions about the use of “tactical” nuclear weapons. Is a limited nuclear war possible? How can we avoid it? Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay.

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Ronald Enzweiler: The War Party’s Dictates on the Ukraine War

antiwar.comMay 5, 2022

The only good that can possibly come out of the War Party’s current third unnecessary and unwinnable war in the post-Cold War era would be for the American electorate to vote out of office the political leadership in Washington responsible for our forever wars that are unrelated to our country’s national security and are leading our county into financial insolvency.

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VIDEO: Representative Thomas Massie: Speech on Ukraine War Powers

Committee for the RepublicMay 4, 2022

Congressman Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) challenges the constitutional authority of President Joe Biden to involve the United States militarily as a co-belligerent or belligerent with Ukraine in its war with Russia and to defend every inch of NATO territory without a declaration of war by Congress.

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George Beebe: Tell us how this war in Ukraine ends

RSMay 4, 2022

As calls grow for a ‘victory’ over Russia, we should examine whether such a win-lose outcome is even possible.

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VIDEO: Robert Wright & ACURA’s Marlene Laruelle: Is Putin’s Russia Fascist?

the wright showMay 3, 2022

Journalist and author Robert Wright talks with historian Marlene Laruelle by what Putin means by “de-Nazifying” Ukraine and whether most Russians support the war. They conclude with a discussion of whether the war was avoidable.

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Trita Parsi: Why Non-Western Countries Tend to See Russia’s War Very, Very Differently

QIMay 3, 2022

As effective as Zelenskyy has been in drumming up Western support, Ukraine’s message has been far less compelling to audiences in the Global South, where many countries have declined to join Western campaigns to sanction Russia’s economy and isolate it diplomatically.

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VIDEO: Ambassador John Evans: Putin’s Road to Ukraine

JQAMay 2, 2022

How did Putin become Putin? Amb. John Evans talks with the John Quincy Adams Society about the future Russian leader when he was just a deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. Evans, then serving as consul general, shares his recollections of the young Putin, situates this in the broader Russian political situation in the 1990s and the evolution of U.S.-Russian relations from the optimism of the period to today’s bitterness.

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Ted Galen Carpenter: If we don’t want nuclear war, why are we pushing for one?

RSMay 2, 2022

Ukraine is not Vietnam or Afghanistan — Russia is not going to leave what it believes to be a key national interest without a fight.

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Andrew Buncombe: War in Ukraine is a ‘gold rush’ for Western arms makers, experts say

independent UKMay 2, 2022

Ukraine invasion is not the first conflict Western governments have used to showcase weapons to potential buyers.

 

 

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Flashback: February 2010: Timothy Snyder: A Fascist Hero in Democratic Kiev

NYRBApril 29, 2022

The incoming Ukrainian president will have to turn some attention to history, because the outgoing one has just made a hero of a long-dead Ukrainian fascist. By conferring the highest state honor of “Hero of Ukraine” upon Stepan Bandera (1909-1959) on January 22, Viktor Yushchenko provoked protests from the chief rabbi of Ukraine, the president of Poland, and many of his own citizens. It is no wonder. Bandera aimed to make of Ukraine a one-party fascist dictatorship without national minorities. During World War II, his followers killed many Poles and Jews. Why would President Yushchenko, the leader of the democratic Orange Revolution, wish to rehabilitate such a figure?

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Tim Marchman: Journalist Franklin Foer Showed Draft of Russiagate Story to Fusion GPS

vice newsApril 28, 2022

Neither Foer nor The Atlantic, where he works, responded to repeated requests for comment. A spokesperson at Slate, for which—disclosure—I’ve written, said, “The very basic journalistic best practice and principle of not sharing drafts of stories with the people and institutions we cover is a standard we ascribe to.”

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ACURA ViewPoint: David C. Speedie: The Folly of Isolating Russia

Acura ViewPointApril 27, 2022

As Americans ingest the constant feed of dire reports and heartbreaking photographs from the war in Ukraine, it behooves us to look at Europe’s views of a European conflict.  [Read more…] about ACURA ViewPoint: David C. Speedie: The Folly of Isolating Russia

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ACURA’s Anatol Lieven: The horrible dangers of pushing a US proxy war in Ukraine

RSApril 27, 2022

If there is indeed a shift in strategy to another level of confrontation with Russia, we need to know what we’re getting into.

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Michael Brenner: American Dissent on Ukraine Is Dying in Darkness

scheerpost April 27, 2022

When it came to the Ukraine conflict, Professor Michael J. Brenner did what he’s done his whole life: question American foreign policy. This time the backlash was vitriolic.

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Ted Galen Carpenter: Russia-Ukraine Tensions Flared Early in the Post-Soviet Era

TNIApril 27, 2022

Indications of trouble both within Ukraine and between Ukraine and Russia have long been apparent. Unfortunately, many in the West failed to discern the warning signs, much less recognize their significance.

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