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Commentary by Bryan MacDonald, RT.com, May 30, 2016 Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the 20th century’s iconic figures. While Ukraine’s decision to blacklist him for supporting Russia’s re-absorption [...]

‘Week In Review’, published by the editors of  Al-Monitor, May 29, 2016 Russia weighs escalation in Syria; CENTCOM commander seeks to balance Turkey, Syrian Kurds in campaign against [...]

By Sibel Hurtas, Al-Monitor, May 23, 2016 A Turkish female journalist has been stripped of her parental rights in an unprecedented court ruling that marks a new milestone in the suppression [...]

By Andrew Cockburn, Harpers Magazine, May 25, 2016 President Obama is about to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb that killed [...]

By Chuck Spinney, Consortium News, May 28, 2016 Mythology about the rightness of dropping two atomic bombs on Japan is relevant to today’s “modernization” of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the [...]

By James O’Neill, Gumshoe News (Australia), May 28, 2016 The Sun Herald (Sydney) of 22 May 2016 reported that the Australian families of the MH17 disaster had “served” the European Court of [...]

Published on Slavyangrad.org, May 30, 2016. Translated for Slavyangrad.org by Alexander Fedotov from the original in Russian on Antifashist.com, May 20, 2016. To spite Moscow, Merkel’s [...]

New Cold War.org, May 30, 2016 The following two commentaries are recently published in the online journal Kurdish Question. They are posted here on New Cold War.org for the information of [...]

From The Guardian, Friday, May 27, 2016 Ukraine’s president has appointed a former Nato secretary general as a special adviser, drawing a derisive reaction from Russia. Petro Poroshenko announced [...]

By Pavel Polityuk , Reuters, Friday, May 27, 2016  (original title: ‘Freed by Russia, Ukraine’s ‘Joan of Arc’ may be thorn in own leaders’ side’) Convicted [...]