This year’s Victory Day Parade was unusually beautiful and poignant. There seemed to be signs that Russia is edging closer to a return to the Imperial days. More about this in a coming piece. But for now, we want to bring you a little personal experience from the holiday. Address by the President of Russia at the military parade President […]
It is often best to let people in Russia speak for themselves. Here is a chance to listen to them. The YouTube blogger is fairly consistent in his reporting with what I am observing in Moscow, though I would say that the Muscovites are probably a bit more supportive about what is going on. I […]
Eric Zuesse Russia’s first strategy against further enlargement of NATO was to demand, on 15 December 2021, to the U.S. Government; and, two days later, to America’s main anti-Russian military alliance, NATO; that NATO would never add any new member-nations — especially not Ukraine (the only nation that’s within a mere 5-minute’s missile-striking-distance away from […]
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The European Union is debating on imposing sanctions on Patriarch Kirill, the head of The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), also known as the Moscow Patriarchate, who leads about 100 million believers. The EU has accused him of supporting the war in Ukraine, and President Vladimir Putin. The sanctions would […]
Eric Zuesse I almost always agree with the courageous whistleblowing former UK Ambassador Craig Murray, but not including this from him on April 25th: “I condemn the invasion of Ukraine and I have no hesitation in calling Putin a war criminal. However for precisely the same reasons so are Bush and Blair [for their invasion […]
21WIRE | Why are the Democrats, and their Neocon partners, so determined to fight Russia "down to the last Ukrainian"?
At The Duran, we are blessed to have a very open and broad range of viewpoints from our writers. Some of us are Trump conservatives like me, some are extreme statist / liberals. Everyone is certainly welcome to post opinion or their own views and analyses on major issues. When the news broke that there was […]
What follows is a direct reprint of a piece that was written by David Axe and appeared in Forbes Magazine on April 30th. The Ghost of Kyiv / Keev / Keef / Kiev, etc. never existed. Think of this. This bit of fake news was all over supposedly truth-telling Fox News of all places, and […]
21WIRE | As the summer approaches, expect more twists and turns in this epic financial war.
[Prefatory Note: A slightly modified version was published in CounterPunch, 4/29/2022; the recent acknowledgement that U.S. goals are, at best, secondarily related to the wellbeing of Ukraine, and primarily by the dangerously regressive goals of taking on challengers to the major premise of unipolarity, which has guided U.S. grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. […]
