Ukraine

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...

Two years into the war in Ukraine, peace remains nowhere in sight. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have died, and the US has funneled close to $80 billion into the proxy war. Despite Ukraine’s failed counter-offensive, significant military setbacks, a decrease in arms supplies, and declining public support...

In Germany, 10 MPs have quit the Left Party (Die Linke) due to its increasingly pro-war stance and established a new party called the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). Defined by a pro-peace policy, BSW emerged in response to the collapse of anti-war positions within the Left with respect to the...

The US vetoed yet another UN resolution calling for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, showcasing the flagrant double standard for the so-called “rules-based international order.” The West regularly deploys the use of international law when it serves their interests, as in the case of the International Criminal Court’s warrant...

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...

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) is the second largest party in Russia, yet their views are often ignored in Western media.  How do they view the war in Ukraine, the nature of the Russian state under Putin, and the character of the Ukrainian state under Zelensky? What’s...