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Reigniting a Nuclear Arms Race Is the Wrong Take-Home From Ukraine

David P. Barash History News Network
Nukes, we are told, would have deterred him (Putin), and so, we should cast our lot — even more than at present — with nuclear weapons so as to deter would-be aggressors. History argues otherwise, namely, that nuclear weapons do not prevent wars.

War and Peace

Victor Grossman Berlin Bulletin
The decades of efforts by people on all continents to ease tensions between the three greatest powers, to work for a friendlier, ecologically improving world of peace has been set back for years, perhaps for decades. We need an anti-fascist, anti-militarist voice for people’s rights.

Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine

Taras Bilous Dissent
We will never achieve a world without war by nonresistance to imperialist intervention. If the left does not take the correct stance on this war, it will discredit and marginalize itself. And we will have to work for a long time to overcome the consequences of this nonsense.

Pimento-Cracy

Cynthia R. Greenlee Oxford American
Pimento cheese’s history is one of migration and a food’s class-switching. The hankering for an exclusive ingredient created a new labor market and a broader appetite.

U.S. Police Trainers With Far-Right Ties Are Teaching Hundreds of Cops

Julia Harte and Alexandra Ulmer Reuters
One police instructor who has taught 560 officers in recent years has joined one extremist group and supported other far-right movements. Others have echoed QAnon and other fringe conspiracy theories on social media, a Reuters examination found.