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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 […]

Ukraine: Why President Trump Is Leaving the Biden Policy Behind

March 26, 2025 Benjamin S. Dunham

by Benjamin S. Dunham This article was originally published in ACURA. In a moment of candor shortly after the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s President Zelensky told The Economist, “There are those in the West who don’t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if […]

Belgium just had its biggest protest in history – why?

March 12, 2025 Carrie Hou

by Carrie Hou On Thursday, February 13, over 100,000 people in Belgium took to the streets of Brussels to protest the new coalition government austerity plans. Led by unions, who called for a general strike, the protest was one of the biggest in Belgium’s history, […]

Chasiv Yar (Donetsk region of Ukraine), March 30, 2024. The town was captured by Russia on January 29, 2025. Photo: National Police of Ukraine.

Ukraine: “Frozen Conflict” or a Lasting Peace?

February 23, 2025 Hoffmann the Organizer

by Hoffmann the Organizer With events related to Ukraine moving very quickly and the rapid development of momentum toward negotiations to end the war, it is important for the peace movement to be clear about where those negotiations should lead. International relations scholar John Mearsheimer […]

Sounding the Alarm on the Ukraine War on Social Media

December 12, 2024 Randy Wurster

by Randy Wurster Over the last several months, the “Ukraine: A Time for Peace campaign” has worked to create a series of brief, easily digestible videos for social media. These videos aim to convey the urgent need for an immediate end to the dangerous US […]

Biden’s Missiles Over Russia

November 19, 2024 Paul Shannon

By Paul Shannon This is serious, and now it’s personal. Now that Biden is putting my life (and all of our lives) at stake makes this man a clear and present danger to me. President Biden has just surpassed Donald Trump in becoming the craziest […]

16 Reasons to Support Negotiations, not Killing, in Ukraine

October 23, 2024 Jeanne Trubek

By Jeanne Trubek 1. The war has killed or wounded over one million people, civilians and combatants, Ukrainians and Russians, and has displaced more than 11 million people. 2. The war has caused more than $56.4 billion in damage to the environment 3. Landscape destruction, […]