US and Russian Officials To Hold Talks in Saudi Arabia Next Week
Marco Rubio spoke with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in a phone call on Saturday
Zelensky Says It’s ‘Not Very Pleasant’ That Trump Spoke With Putin First
The Kremlin has confirmed that a Trump-Putin summit in a third country is happening soon.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Musk & the Myth of USAID
By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News What hath the MAGA movement wrought? I doubt the archest of Donald Trump’s arch-enemies ever imagined that in his second term he would take…
Scott Ritter: Trump’s Doomed Plan for Ukraine
“The Hard Way” — Special Envoy Keith Kellogg’s proposed oil-price manipulations targeting Russia would actually devastate U.S. oil production and the U.S. economy.
It’s Official: US Abandoning Ukraine
By Kit Klarenberg / Global Delinquents On January 19th, TIME magazine published an astonishing article, amply confirming what dissident, anti-war academics, activists, journalists and researchers have argued for a decade.…
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s Failures, America’s Failures
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Well, we now have a president who says what he means, and this is an advance beyond the four years Americans spent listening…
Trump: Zelensky Passed on Deal, ‘Decided To Fight’
Trump says Zelensky is “no angel”
Prof. John Mearsheimer: No Hope For Ukraine Peace Deal?
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
New Secretary of State Marco Rubio Says Ukraine War Needs To End
The fighting in Ukraine continues despite Trump's pledge to end the conflict in 24 hours
A Ukrainian Victory Was Never Biden’s Goal: Time Magazine
The Biden administration never promised a Ukrainian military victory.
Patrick Lawrence: The Nihilism of Antony Blinken
Antony Blinken is utterly indifferent to “what the public thinks” by his own profession. He doesn’t do politics, you see.
Craig Murray: Twisting the Terrorism Narrative
Just as soon as Western powers installed terrorists to power in Damascus, examples of terrorist blowback immediately followed in the U.S., with some very strange details.
Patrick Lawrence: Our World of Wars, Our War of Worlds
What happens when a great but declining power loses a war, the very most decisive war, it cannot afford to lose?
How Ukraine is Helping the HTS Militants Who Overthrew Assad
By Stavroula Pabst / Responsible Statecraft As Islamist, al-Qaida-linked group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) overruns Syria amid President Assad’s sudden ouster, evidence suggesting Ukraine has assisted the group’s triumph…
Sacrificing Living Standards for War
Pensions must be trimmed, inflation accepted and any other social benefits put on the chopping block.