VIDEO: Ukraine Is in Crisis. Here’s Why the West Can’t Save It.

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 13, 2015 A video roundtable hosted by Truthdig Assistant Editor Alexander Reed Kelly explains why the IMF, Europe and Western corporations don’t have the country’s best interests at heart. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Will the Ukrainian Cease-Fire Hold?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 14, 2015 Jeffrey Sommers, senior fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute of World Affairs, is “cautiously optimistic” that a deal aimed at ending hostilities in Ukraine’s Donbass region will terminate the nearly yearlong civil war. (Pictured is Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

What Is Moscow Thinking?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 9, 2015 NATO encroachment, stinging sanctions and civil war at the border. Political economist Jeffrey Sommers, an expert on the evolution of the former Soviet states, carefully describes the impinging economic and geographic forces shaping decision-making by Moscow's elite. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ukrainian Hangovers

By Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson, CounterPunch Mar 17, 2014 The Crimean population's only protection from U.S.-sponsored regional and ethnic political division comes from Russia. That is the gift Obama has given Putin, making him a defender of Ukraine rather than the aggressor. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Ukraine: ‘Go West, Young Man’

By Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson, Truthout Mar 2, 2014 When other countries seek to defend a multi-ethnic secular state, the U.S. foreign office has backed the fundamentalists for nearly the past half-century in all cases. This should be the subtext for reporting on the Ukrainian uprising that seems to have been carefully timed to coincide with Sochi. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Greek Austerity: Don’t Try This at Home!

By Jeffrey Sommers and Yanis Varoufakis, CounterPunch Feb 28, 2014 Ironically, the very New Deal legacy that austerians work to euthanize in the U.S. is the chief thing that has prevented the country's economy from completely crashing. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Russia’s Economic Development to Offset Terrorist Fervor?

By Jeffery Sommers and Michael Hudson Feb 27, 2014 Nothing would go further toward rebuilding prosperity in Russia than a national program to transform the country’s infrastructure. Sochi has shown the way forward, and that is the real story the Western media have sidestepped. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Michael Hudson Remembers What Margaret Thatcher Did

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 9, 2013 The deceased prime minister's 11-year rule over the U.K. "was historic mainly by posing the conundrum that has shaped neoliberal politics since 1980: How can governments nurture and endow financial kleptocrats" with the consent of the people? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )