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VIDEO: Prof Stephen Cohen: “This is the worst International crisis since the Cuban Missile crisis…”

by BlackCatte For the past several months Stephen Cohen has been warning the world about a potential catastrophe looming...

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Bloomberg View: Obama Snubs Nato Chief as Crisis Rages

By Josh Rogin, Bloomberg View President Barack Obama has yet to meet with the new head of the North...

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A chink in the armor of US omnipotence?

Regarding the “Poroshenko vs. Kolomoiskiy” conflict shaking Ukraine to its core right now, Gleb Bazov, a prominent observer and...

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The West’s V-day Shame

by Brad Cabana, RockSolidPolitics There is something so bizarre, so inhumane about Western countries boycotting the parade for the...

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The western media are fiddling while Minsk2 burns

It looks as if Minsk2 is in a lot of trouble, due to what Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...

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The Good, the Bad and the Preposterous: The Metamorphosis of Vladimir Putin

by ANDREW LEVINE in COUNTERPUNCH Suddenly last summer, Vladimir Putin, formerly once a decent enough Russian leader (with a...

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Peter Hitchens: Forget ‘evil’ Putin – we are the bloodthirsty warmongers

The Mail Online, 21 December 2014 “…It seemed fairly clear to me… that war had in fact been a...

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