UKRAINE WAR - All eyes are on Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zalensky as he is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress Wednesday via video link at the U.S. Capitol. 

MILITARY COMPLEX - The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world’s chess board, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating predatory capitalism with freedom.

 GUEST COMMENTARY - War’s grim reality is recognizable wherever it occurs.

OIL PRODUCTION - The shock to the global financial system from the Russia-Ukraine war isn’t only driving up the cost of gasoline in the U.S., but also raising the price of gas to heat homes,

WORLD WATCH - Bennett’s journey to Moscow was bound to fail from the onset; but for Bennett, who thought the trip would provide him an opportunity to show statesmanship, instead it sadly revealed his shortsightedness and self-indulgence.

WAR WATCH - Putin may not quite be Hitler, but he is using der Fuhrer’s playbook.