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Responses from Portside readers to the statement of the U.S. Peace Council on Russia's Military Intervention in Ukraine.

From Lebanon, Iraq and Syria to Sudan and Yemen, millions of people in the Middle East whose lives were already upended by conflict, displacement and poverty are now wondering where their next meals will come from.

According to reports from Yale's Chief Executive Leadership Institute, a colossus of Mexican food conglomerates still maintains operations in Russia.

Worker organizing is on the upswing. Here are some principles for building capacity and bottom-up power—in your union drive and in the ongoing functioning of your union.

At the turn of the last century, Ukraine’s labor movement was subject to tsarist domination and divided along linguistic lines. The revolutions of 1917 inspired calls for self-determination and the formation of a common Ukrainian identity.

The coolest rejoinder to the manly, cacophony of trucks barreling down a D.C. street, horns blaring, was one lone chill biker, languidly pedaling in front of them: "#BikeMan slowing down the forces of #DumbTruckIstan." Not all heroes wear capes.

Heightened rhetoric about Russia and China seeking to undermine American influence will only reinforce Washington’s support for repressive regimes. The consequences of that could, in turn, prove to be potentially disastrous.

When Russian bombs are destroying Ukrainian cities, there's reason to focus on oligarchs supporting the Kremlin. But do American multi-billionaires and Saudi princes enjoy less political clout, stash less money abroad, and use influence any better?

Jamaica in the 18th century was described by Charles Leslie as a “constant mine, whence Britain draws prodigious riches.” More Africans arrived in Kingston to become plantation slaves than arrived in any other place in the British empire.

The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it.