NATO member Turkey will preside over high-level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia later this week, its foreign minister said, the first sit-down involving top diplomats from the warring nations since Moscow’s invasion began in late February.
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 8, 2022 | News Roundup
NATO member Turkey will preside over high-level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia later this week, its foreign minister said, the first sit-down involving top diplomats from the warring nations since Moscow’s invasion began in late February.
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 8, 2022 | News Roundup
Australia has become one of the latest US allies to ship weapons into Ukraine, devoting $50 million in arms and other security assistance amid reports that Western powers have flooded the country with more than 17,000 missiles in the space of just a few days....
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 7, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The Biden administration is pushing the Supreme Court to allow the Pentagon to enforce its vaccine mandate for Navy Seals. [Link] The Pentagon extends the deployment of National Guards soldiers in DC through Wednesday. [Link] The Idaho National Guard will...
by Connor Freeman | Mar 7, 2022 | News Roundup
After 11 months of talks, a U.S. return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iran nuclear deal, appears more likely each week. The Europeans’ respective chief negotiators have already begun posting photos of their teams, thanking them for their work,...
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 7, 2022 | News Roundup
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has agreed to extend a National Guard deployment on the streets of the nation's capital – set to face down the anti-Covid mandate “People’s Convoy” as the American public remains fixated on Russia’s war on Ukraine. Pentagon spokesman...
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 7, 2022 | Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/kVNBrWNjwHU I had a chance to talk with Scott Horton about one of our favorite writers in the libertarian and antiwar space, the late Justin Raimondo. We discussed just what made Justin’s work so good, and what Justin’s legacy is. We then discuss...
by Scott Horton | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog
Dale Sprusansky, Walter Hixon, Hanan Ashrawi, Paul Noursi, Jeanne Trabulsi, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, Huwaida Arraf, don Wagner, Gideon Levy, John Kiriakou, Radihika Sainath, Sut Jhally, Roger Waters, Delina Hanley and Grant F. Smith. A heroic effort....
by Keith Knight | Mar 7, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/MgjtpnIjl3I War is ultimately about collectivism...In George Orwell’s nightmarish dystopia 1984, the world is divided into three empires in a state of perpetual warfare, because “the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the...
by Steven Woskow | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog
Importantly, we discuss some points I haven’t been able to shoehorn into recent blogs because they were already so massive. The first thing is the JCPOA negotiations in Vienna. They are pushing rapidly to conclusion now in order to stabilize oil markets by trying to...
by Bas Spliet | Mar 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Russian rationale behind invading Ukraine closely resembles the reasoning behind the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan in 1979. Both then and now, many in the West read an unprovoked expansionary move into the Kremlin’s actions. That view, in both instances, is...