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Ireland must use active neutrality to promote peace in Ukraine
War is being oversimplified as a clash between good and evil. Neutrality for Ukraine would have and should have prevented this conflict, argues EDWARD HORGAN
A firefighter looks at the destruction caused after shelling of a shopping center, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
THE tragic conflict in Ukraine is being used by those with a vested interest in the militarisation of Europe and in aggressive resource wars to challenge the neutrality not only of Ireland but also of the other European neutral states, especially, Sweden, Finland, and Austria.
The war in Ukraine has complex local and international causes but is being oversimplified in the Western media as a clash between good and evil.
Simplistic solutions to deal with this conflict include pouring in weapons and munitions adding fuel to the fires of war, and attempting to make peace by making war.
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