Slugger O’Toole: Spain’s unionist prime minister has just given us an object lesson in how not to hold a country together

At the Munich Security Conference China announced an initiative to end the Ukraine war. The Global South is in support, the West – including Germany – is opposed. Read Here

Great idea. Unfortunately the problem is always the same: moneyed interests buy corrupt politicians, be it in the USA, EU, or elsewhere, who block these measures. Great ideas do not always change policy. Politics do. […]

The reality is that corruption in Ukraine goes right to the top. The mind boggles about how much of Western aid to Ukraine has ended up in the pockets of the country’s elite. Read the […]