Continuing the debate over peace movement strategy and principles, John Feffer addresses proposals for the U.S. to cut off weapons to Ukraine, arms control with Russia, Ukraine membership in the European Union, and the Wagner mutiny.
“People who truly believe in justice and equality, and peace and socialism, should not actually really care whether their contributions are individually noted,” Angela Davis asserted at a tribute to her friend and mentor, Charlene Mitchell, in 2009.
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies, Marcy Winograd
Foreign Policy in Focus
The war in Ukraine has divided progressives like few other foreign policy issues in recent years. A Foreign Policy in Focus commentary by John Feffer posted on Portside criticized CODEPINK's position on the war in Ukraine. Here is our response.
We have global capital organized on energy supplies, organized on food production and distribution, organized on services, and organized on how we communicate. So why aren’t we organized internationally? Why aren’t we equally globally organized?
Kevin Young; Charles Patrick Lynch; John Feffer
Portside
Last week Portside ran John Feffer's column, which generated a number of likes and shares on Portside's Facebook page. We are are sharing two comments from readers Kevin Young and Charles Patrick Lynch. We asked John Feffer to respond to these.
The 19th century origins of Mother’s Day differ vastly in spirit and purpose from celebrations of it in the 20th and 21st centuries. The first public “Mother’s Day for Peace” rally was in New York City on June 2, 1872, and has only grown more urgent.
Russia should withdraw its troops, there should be a cease-fire, and negotiations. Writer David Bacon wrote this in response Michael Kazin's earlier piece, "Reject the Left Right Alliance Against Ukraine," after Finland's admission to NATO.
Rescuers come from all over the world following an earthquake, but when wars are waged, governments send only more munitions, prolonging the agony. Those who have an insatiable appetite for war seldom heed the wreckage they have left behind.
Bernd Gehrke is critical of those in the peace movement and left who dismissed the threat of invasion coming from Russia - a failure to understand the genesis of today’s Russian capitalism and its emergence from Soviet-era party bureaucracy.
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