How Russia can hurt the West: An embargo hit list for Vladimir Putin
Sanctions are a blunt tool. Their effects can be unpredictable, for the target of an embargo as well as the side that imposes it. The effects have ranged from the grounding of an oligarch’s private jet to Russia’s largest oil company begging the ...
Ukraine accuses Russia of opening new war front before leaders' meeting
The charge, dismissed by Moscow, dealt a blow to already slim hopes of progress at talks on Tuesday towards ending the conflict between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian troops, in which more than 2,000 people have been killed. Ukrainian President Petro ...
Russia claims Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crash investigation stalled
RUSSIA has complained of a failure to release details of the investigation into the Malaysian jet that crashed in Ukraine in July, accusing international investigators of lack of transparency. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov queried on Monday why the ...
Russia Is Already Invading Ukraine
On Friday, Russia sent a supply column of more than 200 trucks rumbling into Ukraine and then, the next day, back out again. Since the Ukraine crisis began, Moscow has done many dangerous and deadly things. But this convoy ranks as one of the oddest.
Pablo Neruda: un Grande e Passionale Poeta
Pablo Neruda, al secolo Ricardo Eliezer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto fu un grande poeta, forse il più grande del XX secolo, oltre che ad un diplomatico e politico cileno. Neruda nacque a Parral, in Cile, il 12 luglio del 1904, e fu considerato uno degli scrittori più rappresentativi della letteratura occi ...
Reprint: Manifest Destiny
This column in my series Cognitive Mapping first appeared in Vector 218 (July-August 2001). Away, away with all these cobweb tissues of rights of discovery, exploration, settlement, contiguity, etc… The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of ...
Poroshenko Fears a Coup… So, He Sends the Battalions of Kolomoisky and “Right Sector” to the Slaughter!
Lest we forget… THIS is what Poroshenko stands for… and what Anglo Americans applaud… do keep it in mind. These Galician fascists denounced people to the Habsburgs… they murdered for the Nazis at Babi Yar and Khatyn… they butchered the Polish population of Volyn… they brutalised Orthodox believers i ...
Washington’s Grand Ambition Explains Its Pressures on Russia
What does Washington want of Russia? Why does it have an anti-Russian policy? At the deepest level, the U.S. government wants global dominance. It wants its system and institutions to be replicated throughout the world. Imperial ambitions are the broadest reasons, and they are fueled by a broad rang ...
