by Phyllis Bennis | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
This article was jointly produced by Foreign Policy In Focus and InTheseTimes.com. Since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives earlier this year, the so-called “Freedom Caucus” — the badly misnamed right-fringe of the congressional GOP — has been...
by Phyllis Bennis | Nov 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
There is a desperate need for a ceasefire in Ukraine. Russia’s war continues to bring death to thousands, displacement of millions, and the destruction of towns and cities across Ukraine. The war, now entering its ninth month, has been illegal from day one. It...
by John Feffer | Oct 12, 2022 | War & Peace
The war in Ukraine has dominated the headlines in U.S. and European newspapers, not to mention outlets in other parts of the world. The explosion this weekend that destroyed part of the bridge connecting Crimea to the Russian mainland, along with Russia’s retaliatory...
by Mary Wareham | Sep 15, 2022 | Human Rights, War & Peace
The couple were in their yard cooking a meal. Then the submunitions hit. The wife died instantly. The husband lost both legs and died that day during surgery. The Russian attack was just one of dozens to hit Derhachi, a town in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, in May...
by John Feffer | Jul 27, 2022 | Food & Farm, War & Peace
When Russia bombed the port in Odesa last week, it was not an auspicious beginning to the new deal on grain exports. If anyone believed that this agreement between Moscow and Kyiv would have some positive spillover effect on the war grinding on elsewhere in Ukraine,...
