Mark Sleboda is an international relations and security expert living in Russia. Today he talks about Ukraine’s long-anticipated offensive as it enters week 3.

The 22 United States troops who were wounded in the June 11 northeastern Syria helicopter incident were part of the highly secretive Delta Force commando unit, The New York Times reported on June 13, citing three senior military officials. The U.S. Central Command announced ...

Sponsors encouraged Kiev to carry out its “terrorist” plans, the Russian envoy told the Security Council. Ukraine destroyed the Kakhovka dam in an “unthinkable crime” intended to harm Crimea for choosing Russia in 2014, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN ...

Moscow has accused Kiev of an act of deliberate sabotage that put at risk thousands of local residents. A major breach of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in Russia’s Kherson Region inundated huge swaths of land on the banks of the ...

Some news and something from British history.

Namita SinghIndependent ExxonMobil agreed on Monday to an out-of-court settlement in a long-running lawsuit brought against the company by villagers of Indonesia over allegations of human rights abuses. In the two-decade-long legal battle, the locals said they were subjected to ...

Pepe EscobarSputnik Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the ...