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1 month ago | 
thenation.com | Natasha Lennard |David Cortright
The Debate / March 14, 2025 Is Political Violence Ever Acceptable? Natasha Lennard argues that it’s harmful to acquiesce to the state’s determinations of violence, while David Cortright writes that violent acts prevent mass resistance movements.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
bostonreview.net | David Cortright
The self-immolation of twenty-five-year-old active-duty U.S. airman Aaron Bushnell at the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., earlier this week was an extreme act of protest against the war in Gaza—a desperate plea to “free Palestine,” as he screamed while flames engulfed his body. Whatever was in Bushnell’s mind, he clearly hoped to compel us to act to end the bloodshed.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
globalvoices.org | Anna Romandash |David Cortright
Nearly two years and thousands of sanctions later, Moscow’s war capacity remains intact, and Russia keeps on bombing Ukraine as much, if not more, as on that fateful morning of February 24, 2022, when the full-scale invasion began. The Kremlin continues its military operations and is launching hundreds of drones and missiles against Ukrainian cities and its people. Russia’s economy has rebounded to pre-war levels and keeps growing, due to massive increases in military spending.
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Feb 17, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Alisa Orlova |David Cortright |Kateryna Zakharchenko
Police detained dozens of Russians paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Saturday, as his spokeswoman accused authorities of stalling the release of his body to relatives. The 47-year-old Kremlin critic died in an Arctic prison on Friday after spending more than three years behind bars, prompting outrage and condemnation from Western leaders and his supporters.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
euractiv.it | Anna Romandash |David Cortright
Se i Paesi occidentali intendono seriamente sanzionare la Russia, dovrebbero chiarire che i profitti non sono una giustificazione per il commercio con criminali di guerra e terroristi, scrivono Anna Romandash e David Cortright. Anna Romandash è la prima borsista del Fourth freedom forum (Howard S. Brembeck fellow), una giornalista ucraina pluripremiata e autrice di Women of Ukraine: reportages from the war and beyond.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
euractiv.com | Anna Romandash |David Cortright
If Western countries are serious about sanctioning Russia, they should make it clear that profits are not a justification for trading with war criminals and terrorists, write Anna Romandash and David Cortright. Anna Romandash is the Fourth Freedom Forum’s first Howard S. Brembeck Fellow, an award-winning journalist from Ukraine, and the author of Women of Ukraine: Reportages from the War and Beyond.
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May 25, 2023 | 
responsiblestatecraft.org | David Cortright
Over the past year, as thousands of Russians have fled their country to avoid serving in the war, European countries have closed their borders and have cancelled or suspended visas for Russians seeking refuge. Rather than accepting war refusers as potential allies for peace, political leaders seem to hold them responsible for the war.
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Feb 22, 2023 | 
democracyparadox.com | David Cortright
By David CortrightWar in IraqTwenty years ago this month, millions of people in Europe, the United States and on every continent took to the streets to oppose the dangers and likely human cost of invading Iraq. It was the largest antiwar movement in history. Former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft warned that war in the Middle East would spark “an explosion of rage” against the United States and stir up further terrorist violence. Yet President George W.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
montereycountyweekly.com | David Cortright
On Feb. 15, 2003, in hundreds of cities across the world, some 10 million people demonstrated against the United States’ impending invasion of Iraq. By many accounts, it was the largest single day of anti-war protest in history. New York Times reporter Patrick Tyler wrote that the huge anti-war demonstrations were indications of “two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion.”Yet this vast mobilization was unable to halt the march to war.
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Feb 4, 2023 | 
thenation.com | David Cortright |Mychal Denzel Smith
On February 15, 2003, in hundreds of cities across the world, some 10 million people demonstrated against the United States’ impending invasion of Iraq. By many accounts, it was the largest single day of anti-war protest in history. More than a million people jammed London’s center, while huge throngs marched in Rome, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, and Sydney. In New York City, hundreds of thousands braved the bitter cold to rally against the war.
