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ANTI-WAR protesters took to the streets of New York City on Saturday in a march and rally against US involvement in overseas conflicts, including Ukraine.
Protesters also slammed Nato’s continued eastward expansion and called for an immediate ceasefire and for peace talks to take place in Ukraine.
The protest, called by the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (Answer) Coalition and The People’s Forum, criticised the US’s hefty spending on the Ukraine crisis and the White House’s announcement to provide Kiev with even more military hardware.
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
While 69 per cent of Ukrainians want negotiated peace, Western leaders are cynically prolonging the war for their own strategic and economic goals, to the immense detriment of Ukraine and Europe, write BOB ORAM and MAGGIE SIMPSON
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES