Cost of Living in Europe and Further Aid to Ukraine

The single largest contingent of readers of my essays is in the United States, and it is for their particular benefit that I open today’s piece with some concrete facts on how Europe’s self-imposed energy crisis resulting from the ban on import of Russian hydrocarbons...

‘Partial Mobilization’ and Democracy

Has ‘partial mobilization’ breathed full-blooded democracy into Russia’s parliamentary government structure and broader society?It is normal to think of wartime as a period of tightened censorship and imposition of ever greater controls on society at large. ...

Stop Starving Afghanistan

Ali A. Olomi calls attention to the damage being done by US sanctions and asset freezes in Afghanistan:Despite militarily withdrawing, the United States continues to pursue a policy of financially starving Afghanistan of desperately needed funds in an attempt to force...

Ithaka: A Family’s Fight To Free Julian Assange

Away from the Tory Babel over who will be the top “world-leading” sociopath, I spent the last two evenings in the company of decent people. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, were in Glasgow and Edinburgh for the screening of...