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• Europe’s Fading Unity Over Ukraine

  
  April 28, 2022 15:23

  Source: Carnegie Europe

  https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/86948?utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=imglink&mkt_tok=

   

  By JUDY DEMPSEY

  Published April 21, 2022

   

  At this critical moment, Europeans must show commitment and resolve in their support for Kyiv. Divisions within the EU risk buying Russia time and weakening Ukraine.

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• Fears Are Mounting That Ukraine War Will Spill Across Borders

  
  April 28, 2022 15:10

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/us/politics/ukraine-war-expansion.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20220428&instance_id=59809&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id

   

  By David E. Sanger and Steven Erlanger

  Published April 27, 2022

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• Our Friday Edition | What is the Side of the Story that is Not Yet Decisive?

  
  April 21, 2022 21:37

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-is-the-side-of-the-story-that-is-not-yet-decisive/

   

  By Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Who's Wise?

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• Nina L. Khrushcheva - Says More…

  
  April 21, 2022 20:28

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/say-more/an-interview-with-nina-l-khrushcheva-2022-03

   

  Published March 29, 2022

   

  This week in Say More, PS talks with Nina L. Khrushcheva, Professor of International Affairs at The New School.

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• War in a World that Stands for Nothing

  
  April 21, 2022 20:07

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/russia-ukraine-war-highlights-truths-about-global-capitalism-by-slavoj-zizek-2022-04?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=9c6fbe2bbc-covid_newsletter_04_20_2022&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-9c6fbe2bbc-93791313&mc_cid=9c6fbe2bbc&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  Bu SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

  Published April 18, 2022

   

  Vladimir Putin’s war engine is being sustained not just by European payments for Russian oil and gas but also by a complicit class of “lumpen-bourgeoisie” motivated solely by the trappings of material wealth. Ukrainians, and everyone else, are learning the hard way how global capitalism trumps democracy and human rights.

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• U.S. Secretary of State Blinken to Visit Kyiv to Meet With Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

  
  April 25, 2022 10:44

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/blinken-to-visit-kyiv-to-meet-with-ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-1.10758289?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=ef8276d2eb

   

  By Reuters

  Published April 23, 2022

   

  Zelenskyy will request that the U.S. become a security guarantor for Ukraine from future threats

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• The New Nuclear Reality

  
  April 25, 2022 11:17

  Source: The New Yorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-new-nuclear-reality?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_042322&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=624b011ae3cce3fea909bb38&cndid

   

  By Robin Wright

  Published April 23, 2022

   

  Russia’s war in Ukraine has reawakened fears about the bomb—and endangered the principle of deterrence.

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• Opinion | If the PA Is Responsible for Palestinian Violence, Who 'Ratifies' Jewish Terrorism?

  
  April 26, 2022 15:47

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-if-the-pa-is-responsible-for-palestinian-violence-who-ratifies-jewish-terrorism-1.10737999

   

  By Zvi Bar'el

  Published April 12, 2022

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• Palestine’s Widening Geography of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat the Palestinians

  
  April 26, 2022 15:39

  Source: Ramzy Baroud, Politics for the People

  http://www.ramzybaroud.net/palestines-widening-geography-of-resistance-why-israel-cannot-defeat-the-palestinians/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published April 13, 2022

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• Beware of the resurgent Russophobia

  
  April 26, 2022 15:33

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/1/beware-of-the-resurgent-russophobia

   

  By Hamid Dabashi

  Published April 1, 2022

   

  So what if Putin likes Dostoyevsky?

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