by Ingrid Burke Friedman, JURIST Today I am finally free. They may have imprisoned me, but they never took my spirit. –Leonard Peltier, Feb. 18, 2025 Native American activist Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving federal prisoners in US history,… Read moreLEONARD PELTIER HEADS HOME —AT LAST
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by Bill Weinberg, Skunk This brief memoir of CounterVortex editor Bill Weinberg's days as a young neo-Yippie in the 1980s first appeared in Canada's Skunk magazine in winter 2012-13. On Nov. 14, I went back to 9 Bleecker Street for… Read moreREVOLUTION 9
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by Ingrid Burke Friedman, JURIST Chiquita’s money helped buy weapons and ammunition used to kill innocent victims. — US Government sentencing memo, 2008 In 2007, Chiquita—one of the world's largest banana producers — admitted that for years it had been knowingly… Read moreCHIQUITA TO PAY FOR PARAMILITARY TERROR
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by Uri Gordon, Freedom Last week the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) released a declaration, setting out a new decentralized structure for the autonomous indigenous communities in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. To get more insight into this change and… Read moreTHE NEW ZAPATISTA AUTONOMY
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by Eugene Simonov and Jennifer Castner, Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group Over the last several decades, Russia has sought to expand its customer base for natural gas exports, efforts which necessitate the construction of pipelines from fossil fuel deposits in… Read moreGAS INTRIGUES, ECOLOGY & THE UKRAINE WAR
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by Mariia Lazareva and Erik Kucherenko, Jurist On August 21, 2023, Ukraine's capital of Kyiv hosted a large international conference entitled Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine: Justice to be Served. The conference was aimed at reinvigorating global efforts… Read moreUKRAINE’S DIFFICULT PATH TO JUSTICE
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by Haggai Matar, +972 Magazine This is a terrible day. After waking up to air sirens under a barrage of hundreds of rockets fired on Israeli cities, we have been learning about the unprecedented assault by Palestinian militants from Gaza into… Read moreGAZA’S SHOCK ATTACK: UNVEILING THE CONTEXT
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by Yevgeny Lerner Many would-be “peacemakers” on the political right as well as on the political left, including even some on the libertarian left, have “very helpfully” suggested that Ukraine should give up some territories, which they describe as “Russian-speaking,” in order to… Read moreCRIMEA: UKRAINE’S OTHER NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE
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by Bill Weinberg The war in Ukraine has left cities in ruins, displaced 12 million people, and brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. Why did Putin invade Ukraine? Upon launching the invasion at the end of February,… Read moreUKRAINE: DEBUNKING RUSSIA’S WAR PROPAGANDA
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by Nicholas Velazquez, Geopolitical Monitor Russia’s relationship with Serbia, a state in the heart of the contentious Balkans, will almost certainly be leveraged to imperil European security for the foreseeable future. Serbian President Aleksander Vucic, a former Europhilic parliamentarian turned autocratic… Read moreRUSSIA’S STRATEGY TO DESTABILIZE THE BALKANS: IT’S WORKING
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Toward International Recognition by Nastya Moyseyenko, Jurist Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine has sparked a strong international reaction, with most states referring to the actions of the Russian army as war crimes. A number of parliaments and heads of state… Read moreRUSSIAN GENOCIDE OF THE UKRAINIAN NATION
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