‘Paranoid dictator’: Russian journalists fill pro-Kremlin site with anti-war articles

Two Russian journalists working for a popular pro-Kremlin website filled it with anti-war articles on Monday morning in a rare act of dissent as the country celebrated the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany. The articles on Lenta.ru called President Vladimir Putin a “pitiful paranoid dictator” and accused him of waging “the bloodiest war of the 21st… Read More ‘Paranoid dictator’: Russian journalists fill pro-Kremlin site with anti-war articles

10th May 202230th July 2022 Dilip

Hedges: The Age of Self-Delusion

The US and Russia, faded relics of the Cold War, unable to accept their terminal decline, launch futile and self-defeating wars to reclaim their lost imperial power. Blinded by what Barbara Tuchman calls “the bellicose frivolity of senile empires,” we are marching ominously towards war with Russia. How else might we explain Secretary of Defense… Read More Hedges: The Age of Self-Delusion

10th May 202230th July 2022 Dilip

How With This Rage. BY CHRIS HEDGES (2005)

I am in blood, Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er: Macbeth I have spent most of my adult life in war. I began in Central America during the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, where I spent five years, on to the Middle… Read More How With This Rage. BY CHRIS HEDGES (2005)

3rd May 202230th July 2022 Dilip

ALAN TAYLOR – Historic photos of World War II: Before the War

The years leading up to the declaration of war between the Axis and Allied powers in 1939 were tumultuous times for people across the globe. The Great Depression had started a decade before, leaving much of the world unemployed and desperate. Nationalism was sweeping through Germany, and it chafed against the punitive measures of the… Read More ALAN TAYLOR – Historic photos of World War II: Before the War

25th April 202230th July 2022 Dilip

Don’t cry for me, Dostoevsky

By Konstantin Akinsha In early March, the University of Milan-Bicocca reacted to the Russian war against Ukraine by cancelling a seminar on Dostoevsky. This peculiar stand against Russian imperialism provoked a heated discussion among academics and intellectuals. The seminar was taught by the writer Paolo Nori, who instantly became famous. For a few days, the… Read More Don’t cry for me, Dostoevsky

18th April 202230th July 2022 Dilip

Richard Wolffe: The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine

To the motives for war in human history, capitalism added another: profit. That motive drove technological advancement and created a genuine world economy. It also built new capitalist empires such as the Spanish, Dutch, British, French, Belgian, Russian, German, Japanese, and American empires. Each of these countries built its empire by various means including wars… Read More Richard Wolffe: The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine

18th April 202230th July 2022 Dilip

Chris Hedges: The Pimps of War

The same cabal of warmongering pundits, foreign policy specialists and government officials, year after year, debacle after debacle, smugly dodge responsibility for the military fiascos they orchestrate. They are protean, shifting adroitly with the political winds, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons… Read More Chris Hedges: The Pimps of War

12th April 202230th July 2022 Dilip

A New History of the Second World War

Whatever else the Second World War was about, it was, on both sides, a war for empire. Taking a global view leads to a different picture of the war. For example, when did it begin? Most English speakers would say 1939, with Germany’s invasion of Poland. But by then Japan had already been at continuous war… Read More A New History of the Second World War

10th April 202211th March 2024 Dilip

Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt: Ukrainian debt, Argentina and IMF, Sri Lanka

According to the IMF, Ukraine’s war-ravaged economy could shrink by up to 35% this year if Russia’s invasion becomes a protracted conflict. This will have serious consequences on the Ukrainian popular classes who are reeling under serious difficulties. At the end of 2021, Ukraine was already burdened with $94 billion in public debt on its… Read More Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt: Ukrainian debt, Argentina and IMF, Sri Lanka

10th April 202230th July 2022 Dilip

Madhavan Palat's lecture on the Ukraine War : Regional History & Current Crisis

Professor Madhavan Palat’s lecture on the Ukraine War: Regional History & Current Crisis was delivered on Tuesday March 29, at Habitat Centre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PTtMaXOCho Madhavan K. Palat read history at the Universities of Delhi and Cambridge. Thereafter he specialized in late Imperial Russian history and took the D.Phil. degree at the University of Oxford. He taught… Read More Madhavan Palat's lecture on the Ukraine War : Regional History & Current Crisis

30th March 202230th July 2022 Dilip

After the truth-shower

Philosophy, history, literature, current affairs, and other stuff. Posted by Dilip Simeon

Tag: Global War and Violence