NB: Whereas I agree with Professor Mehta’s arguments about the sinister significance of Trump’s treatment of President Zelenskyy; the following is where I disagree. He says the Russian invasion of Ukraine was only the second time since World War II that one country had claimed an entire other country… It was a war to erase… Read More The Mask is Off. After Ukraine, imperialism is now the norm
NB: A very useful appraisal. The sentence “I believe that during the unipolar moment, we were deeply committed to spreading democracy”, is jarring however. American foreign policy has never been committed to democracy but to its strategic interests of global dominance. It would announce its grand intentions only in so far as the ideology (as… Read More The USA’s role in the Ukraine crisis (2022)
I want to share my understanding of the events that have befallen Europe, and I’ll include not only the Ukraine crisis, but also Serbia 1999, the wars in the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, the wars in Africa, including Sudan, Somalia, Libya. These are to a very significant extent the result of deeply misguided US… Read More The Geopolitics of Peace: Jeffrey Sachs in the European Parliament
The West has set itself on a path of collective suicide — both moral and economic. NB: The ideological dissolution of Western imperialism began with the League of Nations illegal mandate system at the end of the Great War of 1914-1918. This system enabled the colonial occupation of Palestine and other territories of the defeated… Read More Michael Brenner: The West’s Reckoning?
Signing up for jobs in Russia, Germany or Dubai, young men have been ‘made to join the Russian military’, their families say When Hemil Mangukiya left his small village in the Indian state of Gujarat last December, he told his family he was off to Russia to make a better living than was possible at home in… Read More ‘He had no idea he was being sent to a war zone’: the Indian and Nepalese men on frontlines in Ukraine
By Lucas Leiroz | February 29, 2024 The disastrous actions of American intelligence in Ukraine have been a fact known by analysts since the beginning of the conflict. However, now the Americans themselves are admitting this. Being deceived by Russian pranksters, US mercenaries commented on the CIA’s tactical errors in Ukraine and how […] The… Read More CIA behind Ukrainian disaster
By Deepanshu Mohan There is a solar flare of deep inter-state conflict, conquest, and siege erupting all over the globe. Russia and Ukraine have been embroiled in a long drawn, painful war for over a year and a half. After a 10-month blockade, Azerbaijan launched an attack on Sept. 19, claiming the enclave in a day and causing nearly the entire… Read More On Justice and Sovereignty: The Limits of International Justice Architecture in a World Marred by Conflict and Conquest
US oil and gas multinationals are facing fresh questions over their trade with Russia after customs records revealed that more than $7.1m (£5.7m) worth of equipment manufactured by Halliburton has been imported into the country since it announced the end of its Russian operations. Last September Halliburton, one of the world’s largest providers of products and services… Read More Halliburton equipment worth $7.1m imported into Russia in past year
NB: What enables someone who has been a communist all his life become an ultra-chauvinist overnight? What lies beneath the slippery nature of ideology, and what is the difference between political philosophy and ideology? Why do Leninist parties in power enforce single-party dictatorships? What is the communist understanding of law and justice – is it… Read More Multipolarity, the Mantra of Authoritarianism
Please let’s put much, much more of our future security in the hands of people who treat war and the fallout from invasion like a broadband contract… it remains one of the more pathetic tragedies of our age that Musk is seen as a superhero analogue – but perhaps also an inevitable one, given that… Read More And then Elon Musk said there’ll be no more war – not via his satellite. Aren’t we lucky to have the world in his hands?
After the truth-shower 