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What would it take to negotiate a peace settlement in Ukraine? What could Vladimir Putin see as a way out of this? What role is the US currently playing here? What’s happening with China? And what’s the state of journalism and the mainstream media as the war in Ukraine is happening?
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As the war in Ukraine has started, we have seen some absolutely hypocritical statements made by U.S. officials. But they’re only hypocritical if we know a bit of the context here. And when we do, we are much better equipped to construct our own moral compasses, without any help from the U.S. This is what…
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If we believe that peace in Ukraine is possible, we have to ask what it would look like. What could a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia be? Listen to what Anatol Lieven from The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft has to say.
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Can we talk about the war in Ukraine and its complexities without being shut down or accused of minimising its horrors? I think that is possible indeed – yet not that easy. In my second episode, I talk about (1) racism in the media, (2) the overtness of racist and xenophobic immigration policies when it…
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Can we talk about the war in Ukraine and its complexities without being shut down or accused of minimising its horrors? I think that is possible indeed – yet not that easy. In my first episode, I talk about (1) NATO expansion, (2) the extreme right in Ukraine, and (3) what we have to know…
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No matter how you saw the situation in Eastern Ukraine before, it is clear now that a full-scale war in Ukraine has started. Putin did something that might have seemed incredible – just too massive – even for him. If we are anti-war, we have to condemn this aggression, call for a ceasefire, and ask…
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What right does one country have to freeze the assets of another one? What about when the country sanctioned is undergoing a major crisis? These are the questions we have to ask about what the U.S. has been doing to Afghanistan.
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The military escalations between NATO (well, the U.S., really) and Russia over Ukraine are no joke. The price of war between two nuclear superpowers is as terrifying as it is clear. So what is it that can get in the way of saying NO to military escalations?
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The grimmest predictions came true: Afghanistan is in an incredibly acute crisis. More than 20 million people are experiencing food shortages and over 8 million are facing starvation. Poverty is rampant and growing. But that doesn’t have to be the story of Afghanistan – and there is one major move the U.S. can take here.
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