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First Consequences of Finland Joining NATO

Trans Surgeon: James Barry

One Year Later: NATO’s New Strategy for Europe.

24 February 2023 was one year of the War in Ukraine, at least since Europe started counting. I was sitting at the Clubhouse, drinking a beer, writing the first page of my MA thesis, and watching the news thinking “this is bad, this is so bad, this is very bad”. I still think that but thankfully my thoughts are more articulate now. That is why with this occasion I decided to take a look at the new NATO strategy and at Biden and Putin's public speeches.…

Criminals at War. The New Internal Fight in Moscow

The battle for Soledar, in the Donbass, where the Wagner group – the private militia already active in Syria, headed by the oligarch and mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin – is not a strategic conquest, but rather a propagandistic one. Its most important consequence concerns the opening of an 'internal' fight in Moscow, between the Wagner group mercenaries and the Russian Defence Ministry.…

The language of love

Simon Boyle's queer history column for our January edition…

‘I won’t fight’. Conscientious objection in Russia and Ukraine.

This article discusses the situation Russian and Ukrainian conscientious objectors have with their states. The non-acceptance of objection requests requires global help, organised and managed by the Nonviolent Movement, to those who prefer not to fight and those who think that war is not the only possible way to resolve a conflict.…