US started the Cold War. This war had two major components, military and economic control of most of the world. NATO served the military purpose while dollar as reserve currency
SOCIETIES generate their own economies of tolerable cruelties and injustices. Poverty, for instance, will be allowed, as long a sufficient number of individuals are profiting. To an extent, crime and
EMPIRE denies its own existence. It does not exist as an empire but only as benevolence, with its mission to spread human rights and sustainable development across the world. However,
PRESIDENT Joe Biden of the United States, on a recent visit to Japan as part of his first trip to East Asia after taking office, was most ill-advised in offering
TODAY, it is clear that the beginning of Russia’s special military operation on the territory of Ukraine on February 24 this year was a landmark moment in the modern stage
THE war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction, with more undoubtedly to come as the fighting intensifies in the country’s east and south. Many thousands of soldiers
THE United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism. No high speed
THE government’s intention to appoint a full complement of ministers and state ministers, and the jostling for positions amongst them, seems to suggest an attitude of business as usual. This
SO FAR, the greatest of Vladimir Putin’s many failures in the Ukraine war is his aim of seriously weakening the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Far from creating greater disunity between
I HAVE been watching America at war for many years now and, after 9/11, began spending time with American veterans who came to disdain and actively oppose the very conflicts