Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Europe Marks 70th Anniversary Of Nazi Defeat In World War Two
PARIS (AP) — With quiet moments of memory or military pomp, leaders and ordinary citizens across Europe are marking 70 years since the Nazi defeat and the end of a war that ravaged the continent. But the East-West alliance that vanquished Hitler is deeply divided today. Russia is celebrating Soviet wartime feats in a ceremony Saturday that...
Recollections of Pre-War Donetsk
Lenin Square before the war. Donetsk. The houses in the center of town had just been given fresh, clean plastic siding to impress foreign visitors for UEFA 2012, a soccer championship. Proud locals directed tourists to the gleaming new stadium where Donetsk Shakhtar played. Downtown was in motion, with people floating between beer pubs and guys...
More Than a Year after Annexation, Crimean Tatars Need Allies
Amidst all the media frenzy surrounding Putin’s nefarious destabilization efforts in Eastern Ukraine, other issues of vital importance have gone ignored. Take, for example, the plight of ethnic Tatars, a group which is predominantly Sunni Muslim and traces its roots back to Turkic and Mongol tribes. Physically, Tatar men are distinguished...
Women’s Tribunal, Sarajevo 2015
I am a Woman in Black from Belgrade. I was one of the organizers of the the first feminist conference in East Europe, Drug-ca Zena in 1978 in Belgrade. I am also the author of “The Diary of the Political Idiot,” maybe the first war diary written by a woman distributed over the Internet. In 2005, I happened to be in New York at the UN...
38 Million Homeless In ‘Worst’ Forced Displacement In A Generation, Report Finds
At least 38 million people worldwide have been forced from their homes by violence or armed conflict, a new report on internally displaced persons has found. Of that number, 11 million were displaced in 2014 alone, spurred by ongoing violence in Syria, South Sudan and Iraq. “These are the worst figures for forced displacement in a generation,...
Does the US Have a Moral Obligation to Save the World From Evil Men?
The escalating conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, and Russia’s continuing threat to the stability of the Ukraine are the latest conflicts testing the United States’ foreign policy. While some will always protest America’s involvement in foreign wars for various reasons, others believe that the country is morally obligated...
Do Sanctions Work?
Economic sanctions have long been used as a foreign policy tool, sometimes perceived as the tool of choice for nations where diplomacy has failed to yield desired results. Yet as widely used as they are, and despite the fact that some sanctions may remain in place for years, they generally fail to achieve their objectives. One of the most...
Bernie Sanders’ Run Can Help the Less War Movement
A key problem confronting Americans who would like to see the U.S. involved in less war is that as Peter Beinart recently noted in the Atlantic:It’s also notoriously hard to mobilize Americans against wars until those wars begin. The anti-Vietnam movement didn’t become a force inside the national Democratic Party until 1968, when more...
North Korea Officially Shuts Down Speculation Of A Kim Jong Un Trip To Moscow
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea announced Monday that the head of its parliament will attend this month’s Victory Day celebration in Moscow, squelching speculation that supreme leader Kim Jong Un would use the event to make his international debut. Moscow said in March that Kim was among dozens of world leaders invited to the May...
Ancient Samaritan Sect, Straddling Israel And Palestine, Celebrates Passover On West Bank Hilltop
MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank — The chants and prayers of hundreds of men echoed Saturday night from the top of a West Bank hill nestled next to a Jewish settlement and above the Palestinian city of Nablus. Those praying were neither Jewish nor Muslim, but instead, Samaritan — members of a tiny, ancient religious community who say they...
