By Florin Poenaru. April 21, 2022 In the midst of panic in energy markets – caused by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the West’s sanctions policy – all climate…
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How strong is Russian and Belarusian resistance to Putin’s Ukraine war?
By Dick Nichols. April 21, 2022 The message from Russia is that President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” aimed at “denazifying” Ukraine enjoys overwhelming and rising domestic support. According to…
Europe: Our Wounds Are Bridges
Joey Ayoub. Yassin al Haj Saleh. Wafa Mustafa. Yuliya Yurchenko. Taras Bilous. Sebastian Ordoñez. April 14, 2022 The following was transcribed from a multilingual online encounter of the Post-Extractive Futures series, co-produced…
‘It will be hard to find a farmer left’: Sri Lanka reels from rash fertiliser ban
By Hannah Ellis-Petersen. 20 Apr 2022 Harvests have collapsed, and the way President Rajapaksa introduced the policy angered even organic farmers Driving through the verdant landscape of Rajanganaya, a rural…
Harsh Critique of Chomsky on Ukraine
By Stanley Heller. April 18, 2022 On April 8, Noam Chomsky was in a dialogue with Bill Fletcher, Jr. live on The Real News. Fletcher is a syndicated columnist, a regular media commentator and…
Rethinking Sri Lanka’s economic crisis
Interview with Ahilan Kadirgamar by Himal Southasian. Feb 28, 2022 Interview with Ahilan Kadirgamar on Sri Lanka’s political economy in a time of great crisis. Over the past several months,…
Interview with Gorbach Denis-Ukraine
Interviewed by Don Samantha. April 18, 2022 Gorbach Denis was born when Ukraine was still part of the USSR, in an industrial town in Eastern Ukraine called Kryvyi Rih. All…
The Ukrainian invasion: Implications for Putin’s power
By Ilya Matveev. 17 April 2022 The disastrous military campaign, unprecedented Western sanctions and the ensuing economic crisis tested the resilience of the Russian regime. Putin’s political system withstood the…
Supporting the Ukrainian resistance. Six questions
By Simon Pirani. 19 April 2022 Russia’s war on Ukraine is a nightmare – and for all who try to articulate our humanity actively, who not only hope for social…
Sri Lanka: Revolution by Committee and Other Ways to Kill a Protest
By Ambika Satkunanathan. April 16, 2022 “It is a youth protest.” Youth “should do xxxx” and “should xxxxxx. They need direction.” “No one has control of the protests. Even the…