Tag: Ukraine

Ukraine War at Tipping Point: End It Now or Risk Nuclear War

August 20, 2026 John Berkowitz

A year ago this week, Presidents Trump and Putin met in Alaska and reached a general agreement for ending the Ukraine War. But now it’s dead in the water. Russia says it feels betrayed by the U.S. reneging on the agreement for a diplomatic settlement of […]

Ukraine War: End it Now, or It Will End Far Worse Later

July 6, 2026 Lauren Martin

Lev Golinkin will discuss the roots of the war, its current status, the oversized role of the far-right and neo-Nazi Ukrainian organizations, and the danger that continued escalation will only lead not only to Ukraine’s total destruction, but even a catastrophic nuclear war between the […]

Promises Without Peace: The Limits of U.S. Diplomacy

June 18, 2026 Gabrielle Griffin-Fetsch

Today, it is nearly impossible to go a day without hearing about U.S. foreign policy. Words of “peace talks” and “negotiations” continue to be thrown around by various news outlets, yet these claims also continue to be countered by other nations and world leaders, who […]

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 […]

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 […]

Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?

October 8, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic AI is everywhere these days. There’s no escape. And as geopolitical events appear to spiral out of control in the Ukraine and Gaza, it seems clear that AI, while theoretically a force for positive change, has become has become a worrisome accelerant to […]

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 […]