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THE CRIMEAN CLAUSE OF THE UKRAINE QUESTION

by Yevgeny Lerner The current Russian-Ukrainian war started eight years ago with the Russian annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which fell with hardly a shot fired, and largely without notice in the world at large. The most important thing to… Read moreTHE CRIMEAN CLAUSE OF THE UKRAINE QUESTION

AFGHANISTAN: GOING BACK TO ZERO

Legal and Judicial System Collapsing Under Taliban Regime by Mahir Hazim, Jurist The international community and the United States spent billions of dollars on rebuilding the Afghan legal and judicial system and improving the rule of law and governance over… Read moreAFGHANISTAN: GOING BACK TO ZERO

LIBYA: INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT WORSENING PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

by Elham Saudi & Cristina Orsini, The New Humanitarian Eleven years ago, courageous women and men took to the streets of Libya with an unflinching desire for human rights, justice, and democracy. At the time, they were met with an unprecedented… Read moreLIBYA: INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT WORSENING PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

UKRAINE: KHARKOV ANARCHISTS SPEAK

by Bill Weinberg, CounterVortex Ukraine is in the world headlines now as a frontline of confrontation between Russia and the West. Russian-backed separatists have held the country’s eastern Donbas region since 2014, after a pro-Russian government was ousted in Kiev… Read moreUKRAINE: KHARKOV ANARCHISTS SPEAK

MYANMAR: CRISES SPIRAL ONE YEAR AFTER COUP

by Irwin Loy, The New Humanitarian Volatile new conflict zones, rising hunger, and hundreds of thousands uprooted: A year into a military coup, crises are spiralling across Myanmar, but aid blockades are cutting off assistance even as humanitarian needs reach… Read moreMYANMAR: CRISES SPIRAL ONE YEAR AFTER COUP

STATEMENT FROM UKRAINIAN SOCIALISTS

from Social Movement, Kyiv The Kremlin has ordered the Russian army to the Ukrainian borders and is threatening to intervene if the US, NATO, and Ukraine do not fulfill its demands. We, the Ukrainian socialists, call on the international left… Read moreSTATEMENT FROM UKRAINIAN SOCIALISTS

ON THE ETHIOPIAN CIVIL WAR

by Frank Arango, Seattle Workers’ Voice In November 2020, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched full-scale war on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which governed Ethiopia’s Tigray regional state. He claimed this was a mere police operation against terrorists, and lied that… Read moreON THE ETHIOPIAN CIVIL WAR

INDIA: OUTCRY AGAINST ‘SPECIAL POWERS’ AFTER NAGALAND MASSACRE

by Nava Thakuria, CounterVortex Northeast India’s conflicted state of Nagaland, on the Burmese border, is seeing a mass public outcry against long-standing emergency measures in the wake of an army massacre of civilian mine workers. On Dec. 4, army and… Read moreINDIA: OUTCRY AGAINST ‘SPECIAL POWERS’ AFTER NAGALAND MASSACRE

‘WHAT MUST BE DONE’ FOR THE PLANET

The Campaign to Shut Down New England’s Last Coal Plant by Arnie Alpert, Waging Nonviolence There’s one form of power that’s generated when hot water turns turbines to create electricity. There are other forms of power held by investors, property… Read more‘WHAT MUST BE DONE’ FOR THE PLANET

ANTI-ASIAN PERSECUTION IN CALIFORNIA’S CANNABIS COUNTRY

by Bill Weinberg The government of Antioch, Calif., in June issued a public apology for the anti-Asian pogrom in the Bay Area city in 1876, in which Chinese residents were driven out, their homes put to the torch. It was… Read moreANTI-ASIAN PERSECUTION IN CALIFORNIA’S CANNABIS COUNTRY

THE TRAGEDY OF AHWAZ

Forgotten by History and the World by Rahim Hamid, Dur Untash Studies Centre The protests in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan region have won some international media attention. But coverage has not noted that this region, known to its Arab inhabitants as Ahwaz,… Read moreTHE TRAGEDY OF AHWAZ

AFGHAN WOMEN WHO ARE SPEAKING OUT

by Robyn Huang, The New Humanitarian Before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, some of the country’s loudest voices for peace belonged to women. In southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, for example, seated demonstrations in July drew hundreds… Read moreAFGHAN WOMEN WHO ARE SPEAKING OUT