One Year of Ukraine War: The World Demands Peace + Vijay Prashad: How Far Will it Go?

NATO is the problem - Not the answer

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Dandelion Salad
March 1, 2023

Peoples Dispatch on Mar 1, 2023

To mark one year of the war in Ukraine, people across Europe took to the streets demanding an end to the conflict and NATO’s destructive and expansionist policies. While attempts at negotiations have been made, with the latest being China’s peace proposal, the West has regularly dismissed them.

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha looks back at this year and analyzes why the war continues.

Meanwhile Eugene Puryear of Breakthrough News talks about the anti-war movement in the United States and the upcoming peace rally set for March 18, on the 20th anniversary of the illegal US invasion of Iraq.

Vijay Prashad: One Year of Ukraine War: How Far Will it Go?

BreakThrough News on Feb 24, 2023

Friday, February 24, marks one full year since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute, joins the show to discuss the multipolar challenge to US power and the possibility of the war escalating into a much greater conflict with catastrophic global implications.

From the archives:

Ralph Nader, Seymour Hersh and Mickey Huff: The Nord Stream Pipeline + Censorship in the Press

Seymour Hersh: How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline + Transcript

10 Ways the War in Ukraine Threatens Our Environment

Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai and Danny Haiphong: The Economics of the Ukraine Proxy War

Finian Cunningham and Pepe Escobar: Ukraine War is Desperate Bid by US to Preserve Hegemony and Prevent Multipolar World

Brian Becker and Lee Camp: What Next For The Anti-War Movement?