Following the death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, outrage and eulogies echoed out in equal measure from the halls of power in Washington, amplified one-hundredfold by the US and UK press, and gave the sense that a champion of democracy had been assassinated by a dictator. In 2019, following the presidential elections in Venezuela, … Continue reading “In Navalny and Guaido, Washington Saw Useful Pawns, Not Political Paragons”
Andy Corbley
Yemen Is Experiencing the True Cost of Bernie Sanders’s Cowardice
It was the evening of December 13th, 2022, when tense conversations were had in the office of Senator Bernie Sanders (I–VT) who was preparing to take a vote on the war in Yemen to the floor the following morning. After years of hard lobbying by peace advocates like the Friends Committee for National Legislature, a … Continue reading “Yemen Is Experiencing the True Cost of Bernie Sanders’s Cowardice”
Ancient Greece Called Them ‘Slaves’ Ukraine Calls It ‘Conscription’ the Product Is the Same
The war in Ukraine has reopened Europe’s eyes to the horrifying realities of the wars of history. Battles fought almost entirely by artillery barrages, trench warfare, mass assaults through minefields; the kinds of combat not seen in the world since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, or World War II in Europe. Another aspect making … Continue reading “Ancient Greece Called Them ‘Slaves’ Ukraine Calls It ‘Conscription’ the Product Is the Same”