I am appalled and saddened by the photographs of corpses in the streets of the Ukrainian town called Bucha.  I am equally appalled and saddened by the reports of Ukrainian soldiers killing every person in Buka who was not wearing a blue-colored patch signifying their Ukrainian citizenship.  These photos remind us once again how brutal and horrible war actually is. In both instances, I am skeptical of the absolute truth of both claims.  After all, mainstream media is not known for its truthfulness in wars.  In fact, the media has all too often lied in order to get populations to support war.  I am further appalled by those on the Left who support a wider war.  Of course, most of these folks live hundreds if not thousands of miles from the actual killing and dying. More

Putin, Biden insisted, “sought to shake the foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways.”  The President, in contrast, had been busily building “a coalition of freedom-loving nations” across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa to oppose that man in the Kremlin.  Like a student proffering a glowing report card, Biden spoke of spending “countless hours unifying our European allies.” More

Roosevelt Montás spent his first eleven years in a mountain town in the Dominican Republic. His father, a self-taught Marxist with a sixth-grade education, was dedicated to fighting the Balaguer regime, installed by a 1965 US-sponsored coup. “I understood early in life the realpolitik of American cold war policy, and how it was used to justify abuses in Latin America,” writes Roosevelt. “I saw Dad go to jail … el Yanqui Imperialismo was a norm of international relations with which I was well acquainted.” More

Ukraine, like Belgium, is reliant on nuclear power for 50% of its electricity, an energy plan that is now costing both countries dearly as they lack a substantial renewable energy program to fall back on.  It’s a mistake shared by other European countries that could have developed a robust, secure and truly independent energy sector based on renewables far sooner. More