
VIDEO: Ray McGovern: The Growing Possibility of Nuclear War over Ukraine
Ray McGovern says US officials are being illogical and nonchalant about the likelihood that Russia will use nuclear weapons to deter a military defeat in Ukraine.

Ray McGovern says US officials are being illogical and nonchalant about the likelihood that Russia will use nuclear weapons to deter a military defeat in Ukraine.

On May 16, the Biden administration announced new measures to “increase support for the Cuban people.”

It’s personal. And the U.S. is not better.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Foundation of Dialogue and Solidarity of United Nations (FODASUN) based in Iran hosted an online event in commemoration of International Women’s Day on March 8.

For Mother’s Day I am speaking up and walking for peace for all of our children. War is never the answer.

The economic shock waves created by the war between Russia and Ukraine are already hurting Western economies and the pain will only increase. The slower growth, price hikes, and higher interest rates resulting from the efforts of central banks to tame inflation, as well as increased unemployment, will hurt people living in the West, particularly the poorest among them who spend a far larger proportion of their earnings on basic necessities like food and gas.

We need change-making—both big and small—around the world, that challenges the structural causes of militarism, corrupt capitalism, and climate catastrophe, while at the same time, concretely creating an alternative system based on a just and sustainable peace.

The world is, very reasonably, horrified at what is happening in Ukraine. Russia is apparently committing war crimes and crimes against humanity as it bombs residences, hospitals and any other sites its warplanes encounter.

According to local news media in Kitsap, Washington, it’s expected to take approximately nine years to complete the six above-ground tanks project shutting down and closing 33 underground Navy fuel tanks at the US military Manchester Fuel Depot in Manchester, Washington and will cost the Department of Defense around $200 million.