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12/4/2022
Can the World Stop Imperialist War?
by Lawrence Wittner
It's past time to finish the halting progress made a century ago to rally international cooperation against imperial aggression. The stakes are too high to leave peace in the hands of individual nations.
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
10/15/2022
Ukraine Isn't Munich, Berlin, or Vietnam: The Limits and Dangers of Historical Analogies
by Christopher David LaRoche
Analogies are vital cognitive shortcuts that enable us to comprehend complexity. But their usefulness means we risk transposing biases and fallacies about the past onto how we understand the present.
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SOURCE: Jewish Journal
8/8/2022
What Does Dante Tell Us About the End of the Ukraine War?
by Tad Daley
In "On Monarchy" Dante offered the first proposed solution in literature to the problem of war – a world government.
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SOURCE: Responsible Statecraft
8/31/2022
DoD's Plan to Reduce Civilian Casualties Will Humanize Endless War
by Samuel Moyn
Reducing the brutality of war while tolerating its existence will entrench war as a permanent feature of global politics.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
4/26/2022
Guernica Was a Dress Rehearsal for Horrors to Come
Journalist George Lowther Steer broke the news that the German Luftwaffe had provided the aerial destruction of the town, in what became a training ground for future Nazi attacks.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
4/18/2022
Is International Cooperation Possible?
by Tiziana Stella and Campbell Craig
The United Nations system, based on the sovereignty of nations, is increasingly inadequate to the global problems facing humanity. There are other international traditions that can guide a better world order.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
4/7/2022
A Historical Feast of Death and Destruction—from the Peloponnesian Wars to Late Tomorrow Night
by Tom Engelhardt
Anyone shocked by the eruption of violence in "peaceful" Europe should pull the lens back to encompass centuries of war and slaughter before 1945.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/5/2022
Ukraine's Next Enemy: Disease
by Max Brooks, Lionel Beehner and John Spencer
"If we want to help the Ukrainian resistance, we shouldn’t be sending them only Javelins and body armor. They need emergency supplies — bulk sanitation items such as alcohol-based hand sanitizer, ammonium nitrate to counter food-borne illness, and rat traps and poisons."
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4/3/2022
Can the US Credibly Condemn Russian Attacks on Civilians?
by Paul Lovinger
Are American military actions different from Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure only in degree?
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4/3/2022
More War Crimes Will Follow in Ukraine
by Fred Zilian
To those who believed that war and war crimes in Europe in the 21st century had become unthinkable, Thucydides offers us a simple yet powerful statement: “War is a violent teacher.”
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
3/31/2022
Over a River Strangely Rosy: Reading Poetry in Wartime
by Joan Neuberger
"It’s my job to explain things about Russia and its various incarnations of empire. I know how to do that — I’ve been doing it for a long time. But, in this moment, analysis seems to me to be somehow incomprehensible and profoundly unsatisfying."
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
3/20/2022
Why is the News Media so Hawkish?
by Mark Hannah
Editorial choices made by influential news organizations can push policy in the direction of more aggressive intervention. A media scholar asks why those organizations have consistently chosen to boost the voices of advocates for war.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/18/2022
Nuclear Power Plants Aren't Made to Survive War
by Kate Brown and Susan Solomon
"It is difficult to believe, but in all the decades of imagining nuclear-emergency scenarios, engineers did not design for an event so human and inevitable as war."
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3/20/2022
Dispatches from Ukraine: “The critical question is: “How is everyone, and are you still alive?'”
by Priscilla Hart
A great deal of the Ukrainian experience can be understood by the efforts of women refugees to keep aware of their families and the progress of the Russian invasion and counterattack.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/10/2022
The Geopolitics of the Russia-Ukraine War
by Alfred McCoy
Since the Versailles conference in 1919, geopolitical theorists have discussed the potential of anl alliance connecting eastern Europe and central Asia as a potential seat of world domination. Are recent developments in Russian-Chinese relations moving in that direction?
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SOURCE: New Left Review
3/7/2022
Thanatos Triumphant
by Mike Davis
Russian's invasion of Ukraine has revealed the nihilism of the world's leaders from Moscow to Washington, and the failure of the American left to develop a meaningful alternative to a global death-wish led by oligarchs.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/3/2022
War Torn: Confronting the Problems of the Nationless
by Nick Turse
Those displaced by war, persecution, and economic desperation constitute more than a billion people. The "nationless" are the third-largest nation on Earth, and their ranks will only grow.
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SOURCE: CNN
2/25/2022
War as a Spectator Event
by Nicole Hemmer
It's necessary to consider the ethics and morality of consuming warfare as a spectator event, and to temper emotional reactions spurred by images of suffering with understanding of their context.
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2/13/2022
What Major Religious Traditions Say about a Democratic World Federation
by David C. Oughton
Valentine's Day has become a secular American celebration of romantic love, but it can be an occasion to consider religious traditions of love involving the pursuit of peace, including through international federation.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
1/23/2022
A Very Long War: From Vietnam to Afghanistan
by Andrew Bacevich
The interpretive frameworks – from the "domino theory" to the war on terror – guiding the political decision to wage war are usually rendered incoherent by facts on the ground in combat. This cluelessness survived the end of the cold war intact and suggests a longer campaign of American empire.
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