Tag: Ukraine

As I write, reports have come in of a Russian rocket having struck the maternity wing of a hospital in eastern Ukraine, killing a new-born boy and critically injuring a doctor. Every life lost is a tragedy,…

Perhaps Russia launching a war against Ukraine in the first place was the precursor to the deaths in Poland, but if NATO and the rest of the Western governments are…

Cold war lessons in diplomacy are forgotten as Biden ramps up the temperature of the hot war in Ukraine. What about brokering peace talks?

Extreme weather events are becoming the new normal across the world as the Climate Crisis continues to unfold. Poor countries already face catastrophe. But if we don't stop Capitalism, it…

The myth of a liberal and humane Europe does not always match up to the reality. Truth and lies are part of the story we tell ourselves.

NATO has abandoned the Kurds to ethnic cleansing to keep Turkey onside against Russia. If the defence of Ukraine depends upon sacrificing the Kurds, we are not defending freedom. We…

A WORLD economic recession, which leaders of the G7 are trying to ignore, is now accepted as inevitable by most economists.

Whether or not Putin ever believed his own propaganda that this was a special operation to overthrow a Nazi regime and liberate Ukraine, it soon became clear that this was…

The myth of a liberal and humane Europe does not always match up to the reality. Truth and lies are part of the story we tell ourselves.

AS the war in Ukraine continues, we heard Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, saying at the weekend that it would only end through diplomacy. Some politicians, notably Jeremy Corbyn, have often…