Category: Ukraine/Russia

War Crimes in an Age of Impunity

April 29, 2026 Abigail Greenblatt

Last week, on Wednesday, April 22, Amal Khalil, a Lebanese journalist, was targeted and killed by Israeli forces while reporting on an earlier Israeli attack with her colleague Zeinab Faraj. Khalil and Faraj took shelter in a building, where rescue workers tried to reach the […]

The Ukraine war must end and it must end now!

February 18, 2026 Paul Shannon

by Paul Shannon On February 24 we mourn the fourth anniversary of the Ukraine War. Several weeks earlier, on February 5, we also marked the expiration of the New Start Treaty – the last remaining nuclear weapons agreement. The conflict continues to take thousands of […]

4th Anniversary of Ukraine War: How Did We Get Here?

February 11, 2026 Abigail Greenblatt

by Abigail Greenblatt As February 24th approaches, so does the fourth anniversary of the war in Ukraine. What Russian forces intended to be a swift invasion has become a grinding conflict claiming hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides. As the EU doubles down […]

Denazification of Ukraine and the World

December 9, 2025 Anatol Zukerman

by Anatol Zukerman I was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, but lived most of my Soviet life in the Moscow, Russian Federation. My mother was born in Kremenchug, which, like Kharkov, is now in the center of a raging war. She survived Jewish pogroms in imperial […]

A New World Order For Europe

September 4, 2025 Anatol Zukerman

by Anatol Zukerman During the meeting with Trump in Alaska last month, Putin spoke of the root causes of the war in Ukraine. Those roots are very deep, indeed. In 1654 Ukraine was partitioned along the River Dnipro after a twelve-year war between Russia and […]

1,001 Days of War

May 1, 2025 Matt Bivens

by Matt Bivens, M.D. The original version of this article was published on the author’s Substack six months ago. Although the current situation has changed significantly with Trump’s efforts to negotiate and with the newly signed agreements on mineral rights, the background to the war […]

Anti-Trump resistance can’t be ‘hands off’ on militarism

April 23, 2025 Ben Grosscup

by Ben Grosscup This opinion piece was originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. On April 5, people in western Massachusetts and throughout the U.S. demonstrated against the Trump Administration’s escalating attacks on what’s left of our tattered social safety net and personal rights. Rallying […]