All the work towards a rapprochement between the Koreas in 2018 has been scrapped. And now, Russia has entered the scene as a significant player in the situation.
Last Friday, the world was shocked and horrified by reports of an appalling massacre at a packed concert venue in Moscow.
A recent New York Times article details collaboration between the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence services, including the construction of 12 CIA bases.
The announcement by the Russian Ministry of Defense that its forces had full control of the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka represents a devastating blow to Ukraine.
Written in 1916, in the middle of the First World War, Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism is an essential work for understanding the phenomena of war and imperialism today.
As the year comes to a close, the complete failure of the much-hyped Ukrainian counteroffensive has opened a chorus of mutual recriminations within Ukraine and between Kiev and its imperialist puppet masters.
Nagorno-Karabakh has been wiped off the map as what remained of the breakaway region surrendered to Azerbaijan’s troops on September 20, after brief fighting that led to at least 200 ethnic Armenians being killed.
If the meeting of the Group of 20 major economies in India was intended as a show of unity against Russia, it succeeded in producing precisely the opposite result.
The killing of Prigozhin shows that behind the appearance of solidity, Putin’s regime is inherently unstable. But the inevitable crowing of the US imperialists is entirely misplaced.
Disaffection is spreading in the army and among civilians, while at the same time Ukraine’s western allies are getting cold feet and starting to talk about negotiations.
The detention of Niger’s president, Mohamed Bazoum, on July 26, followed by the announcement of military rule, has provoked an immediate escalation in tensions across the region.
The arrest of Boris Kagarlitsky is a threat and a warning to any left and Communist forces in opposition to the reactionary Putin regime.
