Michael Simms: No
No is not nothing. When everything has been taken from you, no is all you have left.
Abby Zimet: You Will See Our Faces
With so much fast-moving news in Ukraine – bad, good, ambiguous – a quick update. Among Russian atrocities is ongoing heavy bombing in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, after a Russian … Continue reading
Kenny Stancil: Russia Warns Kyiv Residents to Leave Homes Ahead of Bombing Blitz
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced plans for a bombing campaign in the Ukrainian capital.
Daniel Hunter: Ukraine’s secret weapon may prove to be civilian resistance
Unarmed Ukrainians changing road signs, blocking tanks and confronting the Russian military are showing their bravery and strategic brilliance.
Kenny Stancil: US Bombed Somalia Amid Russian Invasion of Ukraine
“You do not, in fact, have to choose between American and Russian imperialisms,” wrote one anti-war reporter. “The correct choice is to detest and resist both.”
Kimberly Parish Davis: The Messenger
When he came to the bottom of his street he could hear the screams. Chaos unfolded before him. Houses were burning and women were running hunched over as they tried to protect their children. Soldiers on horseback ran them down, shooting and slashing and impaling people indiscriminately.
Video: Souvenir Souvenir
Souvenir Souvenir tracks the efforts of the French filmmaker Bastien Dubois to learn more about his grandfather’s time as a French soldier in the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62). Sixty years later, that conflict is little-discussed by many of those who fought it, leaving members of younger generations, like Dubois, to speculate about their family’s role in the notoriously brutal war.
Michael Simms: Rumor of War | February 24, 2022 
I’ll say it again and say it differently
because the horror of war must never be forgotten.
The boy hid beneath the stairs
when the Good Guys came to kill him.
Jessica Corbett: Over 1,000 Russians Arrested for Protesting Putin’s Ukraine Invasion
“This is an unprecedented atrocity, for which there is no and cannot be any justification,” said nearly 200 officials from cities across Russia.
Video: Yusef Komunyakaa Reads “Facing It”
Yusef Komunyakaa reads his poem “Facing It” about seeing the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial wall in Washington, D.C. through his eyes as a war veteran and contemporary poet.
Norman Solomon: Bob Dylan and the Ukraine Crisis
I’ve learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It’s them we must fight
Thom Hartmann: Like a Bizarre Johnny Appleseed, Trump Has Planted the Seeds of Extreme Antisocial Behavior—And It Cannot Be Ignored
We’ve always had authoritarians among us, but they’ve been given an opening they never had before.
Tom Engelhardt: My Life with Maus
Or How I Was Banned (Even If in a Second-Hand Way) by a Trumpian World
Leonardo Flores: “It Can’t Be Illegal to Help a People” | The US Persecution of Alex Saab
Venezuela’s ability to survive the brutal economic war being waged against it.
