With Russia launching a military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the corporate press has grown shrill in its calls for punishing Russia with draconian sanctions, supplying Ukraine with increased military aid, and diplomatically isolating the Eurasian power...
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Media Criticism of Putin’s Invasion Rings Hollow
by Will Porter | Feb 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
With Russia’s attack on Ukraine underway, the corporate media is awash with openly hostile coverage of the conflict, embedded with an implicit premise that the Russian Aggressor has invented an empty pretext for the invasion of its neighbor. Concerns over NATO, it...
TGIF: On Privilege
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 25, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
One of the most abused words in English is privilege. Observe how indiscriminately this word is spoken and written. For example, in some quarters, all straight white men -- without exception -- are said to be privileged, which seems absurd. Practically all we hear...
President Biden Announces New Sanctions on Russia, Increases Troop Deployments to Europe
by Dave DeCamp | Feb 25, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Thursday, President Biden announced more sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine. The sanctions aim to cut exports to Russia, block the assets of four major Russian banks, and target individual Russian “elites.” For now, the US and...
Masks and Me: How Did We Get Here?
by Wilton Alston | Feb 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
“The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may become persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right, on a legal...
Vladimir Putin Launches Multi-Pronged Attacked on Ukraine
by Dave DeCamp | Feb 24, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said Thursday that Russia has “has just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” A series of explosions were reported across Ukraine, including near the capital Kyiv. Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s interior...
Putin’s Donbas Move Threatens U.S. Global Dominance
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Feb 23, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to recognize two break-off republics in eastern Ukraine as independent states, stoking cries of horror and condemnation from the Western keepers of the ‘rules-based international order.’ The Russian legislature passed a bill...
Caution or Catastrophe: Public Health’s COVID Response
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Feb 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, proponents of lockdowns, shelter-in-place orders, mask mandates and other coercive government interventions have characterized these measures as benevolently “erring on the side of caution.” Now, as the grim toll of those public...