Diem Assassination
Zelensky’s former press secretary publicly helps lift the veil on Zelensky. Could this be a prelude to him being removed from power? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has much in common with ill-fated South Vietnam dictator Ngo Dinh Diem (1955-1963). Both were heralded by liberal politicians and the media as democratic saviors...
U.S. satellite targeting of Russia risks nuclear war because it makes the U.S. a co-belligerent against another nuclear power. “U.S. to Restore Military Support to Ukraine After it Agrees to Ceasefire” and “immediately lift a pause on intelligence sharing.” (The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2025) “Intelligence pauses like this severely hinder...
Artists Present Themseves as Antiwar But Are in Fact Pro-War In early May, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a staged appearance in a Kyiv bar to play a rendition with a Ukrianian punk jazz band of Neil Young’s song “Rockin’ in the Free World.” Blinken’s appearance was designed to...
Ukrainian drones have carried out terrorist strikes extending into Russia designed to cripple its oil and gas industry and been deployed to attack Russian journalists On one of its last days in office, the Biden administration declassified an account of its once-secret support for Ukraine’s drone industry. U.S. officials said they...
Part I of a CAM investigation into the origins of the Ukraine War: U.S. and NATO involvement in the February 2014 Coup and Maidan Massacre, and their historical antecedents As I write, the world is on the edge of nuclear and humanitarian crises after a year of the Ukraine...
On May 11, the online news journal Mediapart in France interviewed Olivier Besancenot following his recent return from a fact-finding mission to Ukraine. The interview was translated into English and published in a French Trotskyist journal that publishes in English and French. Besancenot was the presidential candidate of France for...
This week the European Union is expected to announce a complete import ban on Russian oil. Hungary, in its first real act of defiance, is threatening to veto this; Germany, after some hemming and hawing, has finally decided it can survive such a ban. Assuming Hungary’s objections are eventually overcome,...
Why negotiate a diplomatic settlement and adhere to the Minsk agreement when there is so much money in war? During a recent interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, former Chancellor and European political heavyweight Angela Merkel revealed that the Minsk accords, a comprehensive 2015 diplomatic treaty, agreed by the EU,...
On a recent visit to Russia, I happened to come across a Ukrainian restaurant while walking through Moscow.  Politicians and the media in the West wanted us to believe that Russia intended to annex Ukraine and eradicate its culture. I was therefore both amazed and delighted that this centre of...
Where shall I begin? Can a man endure so much suffering? Can you write about so much suffering without getting emotional? Probably not. Mariupol has been wiped out, buildings have collapsed mostly due to rocket attacks and, of course, there have been bombings as well. The Western media, of course, blame the Russians...