by Khury Petersen-Smith | Mar 29, 2022 | Human Rights, War & Peace
The people of Ukraine are fleeing, suffering, and resisting in the face of an appalling and brutal Russian invasion. The invasion is posing a challenge for progressives and people on the left—particularly for those of us located in the U.S. As we work to stand with...
by Nick Cleveland-Stout, Taylor Giorno, William Hartung | Mar 23, 2022 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, War & Peace
A growing chorus of pundits and policymakers has suggested that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks the beginning of a new Cold War. If so, that means trillions of additional dollars for the Pentagon in the years to come coupled with a more aggressive military posture...
by Abdoulie Njai, Micaela Torres, Margareta Matache | Mar 15, 2022 | Human Rights
In the weeks since Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated the invasion of Ukraine, Brown and Black people fleeing Ukraine continue to experience racism and violence, including in neighboring EU countries. Romanian police officers aggressively removed Ukrainian...
by John Feffer | Mar 9, 2022 | Democracy & Governance, War & Peace
War has been pretty much a constant in human affairs. If you’ve managed to avoid direct contact with war for your entire life, you are extraordinarily lucky in world-historical terms. The Cold War that kept the peace across most of the Global North was accompanied by...
by Nick Turse | Mar 7, 2022 | Human Rights, War & Peace
We live on a planet in motion, a world of collision and drift. This was once an Earth of super-continents — Gondwana, Rodinia, Pangea. The eastern seaboard of the United States sidled up against West Africa, while Antarctica cozied up to the opposite side of the...
