Category: Myths

Talk World Radio: Ruth McDonough on Unarmed Resistance in Western Sahara

This week on Talk World Radio we’re discussing the use of nonviolent activism in Western Sahara.

Demanding a Just Peace in Ukraine and the Abolition of All War

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has horrified people around the world and has, quite rightly, been widely condemned. But in the inevitably polarized and propaganda-laden wartime media environment, it has been remarkably difficult to go beyond that.

Russian soldiers release Ukraine town’s Mayor and Agree to Leave after Protests

Russian forces agreed to leave town of Slavutych if those with arms handed them over to the mayor.

From Moscow to Washington, the Barbarism and Hypocrisy Don’t Justify Each Other

Russia’s war in Ukraine — like the USA’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — should be understood as barbaric mass slaughter. For all their mutual hostility, the Kremlin and the White House are willing to rely on similar precepts: Might makes right.

Ending Slavery in Washington DC and War in Ukraine

The belief in the justice and glory of past wars is absolutely critical to the acceptance of current wars, such as the Ukraine war. And the gargantuan price tags of wars is highly relevant to imagining creative alternatives to escalating a war that’s placed us closer to nuclear apocalypse than ever before.