Russia

ISIS-K, an offshoot of ISIS called Islamic State in Khorasan, claimed responsibility for the March 22 attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall outside Moscow that killed 133 people. While US officials were quick to put the blame on ISIS, Russia’s President Putin claimed that the attackers were aided...

Pro-capitalist ideologues in politics, media and academia have been hard at work slandering the left in an effort to subvert any true understanding of socialist history. They do this by constructing narratives around socialism, communism and leaders of socialist states to lead people to dismiss the idea that there can...

A massive terrorist attack targeting civilians in Moscow killed more than 140 people and wounded hundreds more. Meanwhile, the Biden administration and the Pentagon are demanding billions for more war against Russia in the asymmetric, proxy war being waged in Ukraine. Brian Becker is joined by Eugene Puryear, the author...

President Biden is asking for another $24 billion for Ukraine, atop the $113 billion already sent to the country since 2022. As the war climbs the escalation ladder,  Medea Benjamin, Peace activist, co-founder of CODEPINK & author of “War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict” discusses the urgent...

In the final weeks before a potential government shutdown over the federal budget, Ukrainian President Zelensky visited Capitol Hill to make his bid for even more US funding for the Ukraine war. During his visit, President Biden announced an additional $325 million weapons package to Ukraine, and set the stage...

The opening week of the United Nations General Assembly shows clearly that this is a new era of global politics. Ukrainian President Zelensky threw down the hammer demanding more war, suggesting even an escalation to nuclear weapons, while Biden is trying desperately to break up the forming alliances in the...

MP Sevim Dagdelen, Die Linke spokeswoman for international politics and disarmament in the German Bundestag, discusses the impact of the escalating US-Russia-Ukraine conflict on Europe and the urgent need for peace. 

As the much-hyped Ukrainian counter-offensive fails to produce major military breakthroughs, officials in the West are becoming concerned that their proxy war against Russia is not going according to plan. But instead of negotiating a lasting peace, the instinct of the war makers is the opposite – double down on...

We’re told that countries across the Global South are poor and plagued by violence not because of colonialism, imperialism, never ending Western wars, resource theft and destabilization campaigns. Rather, it’s because they’re ruled by corrupt and greedy people who seem to be innately authoritarian and backwards due to some sort...

The BRICS alliance of emerging major economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa –  concluded its 15th Summit in Johannesburg with a major announcement. Six new countries have been invited into BRICS membership: Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia.  With three major oil-exporting nations set...