By Connor Echols on Nov 06, 2023 12:05 am Can an opera about drone warfare sponsored by a weapons maker ever really be considered “antiwar”? The head of New York’s Metropolitan Opera certainly thinks so. Read in browser »
By William Hartung on Nov 03, 2023 08:56 am New York Times columnist Paul Krugman would like you to know that the term “military-industrial complex” (MIC) is outmoded and that we spend far less on the Pentagon now than we did when President Eisenhower introduced that phrase in his 1961 farewell address. Read in browser »
By Alex De Waal on Nov 03, 2023 12:05 am Hamas’s attack into Israel and massacre of Israelis, followed by Israel’s war of obliteration on Gaza backed by the United States, is a political earthquake in the Middle East. Its tremors are shaking up the politics of the Horn of Africa, bringing down an already tottering peace and security architecture. Read in browser »
By Molly O'Neal on Nov 02, 2023 12:05 am Recent elections in Central Europe swept out incumbents, but in opposite directions, with the nearby Ukraine war and its impact on citizens and the economies never far from the political surface. Read in browser »
By David Sacks on Nov 01, 2023 08:04 am Since the Russia-Ukraine war began over 20 months ago, Western media has constructed and dutifully hewn to a series of narratives: Volodymyr Zelensky is a war hero and resistance leader akin to Winston Churchill. Ukrainians are eager to volunteer for the war effort while Russians flee conscription. More money and weapons are all the Ukrainians need to retake the territory Russia has annexed. The West’s interests lie in helping them achieve that grand victory rather than in pushing for a ceasefire and negotiated settlement. Read in browser »
Can an opera about drone warfare sponsored by a weapons maker ever really be considered “antiwar”? The head of New York’s Metropolitan Opera certainly thinks so.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman would 
Hamas’s attack into Israel and massacre of Israelis, followed by Israel’s war of obliteration on Gaza backed by the United States, is a political earthquake in the Middle East. Its tremors are shaking up the politics of the Horn of Africa, bringing down an already tottering peace and security architecture.
Recent elections in Central Europe swept out incumbents, but in opposite directions, with the nearby Ukraine war and its impact on citizens and the economies never far from the political surface.
Since the Russia-Ukraine war began over 20 months ago, Western media has constructed and dutifully hewn to a series of narratives: Volodymyr Zelensky is a war hero and resistance leader akin to Winston Churchill. Ukrainians are eager to volunteer for the war effort while Russians flee conscription. More money and weapons are all the Ukrainians need to retake the territory Russia has annexed. The West’s interests lie in helping them achieve that grand victory rather than in pushing for a ceasefire and negotiated settlement.