"We can see the division of the globe into grievable and ungrievable lives from the perspective of those who wage war in order to defend the lives of certain communities, and to defend them against the lives of others — even if it means taking those latter lives."
A local resident leaves her apartment building damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Ukrainian serviceman launches a kamikaze FPV drone at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk region, Ukraine. REUTERS/Inna Varenytsia
I've worked one of her patterns a few months back and I can very highly recommend them - they are designed with a great love for details and the sweater I made came out absolutely gorgeous.
🚨#Guardian report: major anti-Ukraine conference will be held in Washington, DC Dec 11.
Heritage cesspool will bring together Hungarian dictator Viktor Orbán’s team & Republican congressmen to strategize how to end US support for #Ukraine. This was always the end-game.
Heritage are running Project 2025.
Remember #MagaMike Johnson's Paris conference last month? Orban's policy advisor was there with him.
European & American neo-fascist "libertarians" have been in bed together for years. US Evangelicals have joined. Here's part of the speaker list for 2022's NatCon III: Peter Thiel & his proteges + Orban's advisor Balazs Orban (red), people tied to #J6 in blue/green.
#J6-ties: Kevin Lynn, a faux-left anti-immigrant activist, brought the now-convicted Rachel Powell to the Capitol. Amanda Milius directed "The Plot Against the President", then was hired by Chris Miller. Wilfred McClay reps Hillsdale College, which tried to overturn the vote.
In June 1948, Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-MI) famously stated that "politics stops at the water's edge," urging R cooperation with the Truman administration's foreign policy objectives. Stalin's proxies had just eliminated all non-communist members of the coalition governments of Soviet-occupied Central Europe and the Berlin Blockade loomed.
Today's Republican Party by contrast is worth over 10 fresh divisions to the russian invasion force. Shame.
I think we all remember back to history class about how, after the failed Dieppe Raid in the summer of 1942, FDR told Churchill, "well, that was disappointing. Congress says you're on your own now." #ukraine@histodons
A brilliant and bitingly funny collection of stories united around a single, crumbling apartment building in Ukraine.
A bureaucratic glitch omits an entire building, along with its residents, from municipal records. So begins Reva's ingeniously intertwined narratives, nine stories which span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union.
Warfare in a Fragile World:
Military Impact on the Human Environment
This book, first published in 1980, examines the extent to which warfare and other military activities contribute to environmental degradation. The military capability to damage the environment has escalated. The military use and abuse of each of the several major global habitats – temperate, tropical, desert, arctic, insular and oceanic – are evaluated.
With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine's leader. Just three years earlier, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted, 'I need ammunition, not a ride.'
People light candles at the compound of a memorial complex to Holodomor victims during a ceremony commemorating the famine of 1932-33, in which millions died of hunger, in Kyiv, Ukraine. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova
These are abandoned quarries in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, June 2022. Outdated methods of mineral mining caused the water pollution and discolouration.
Today in Labor History November 20, 1896: Rose Pesotta, anarchist labor activist and the only woman on the General Executive Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers (ILGWU), from 1933-1944, was born on this date, in Ukraine, to a Jewish family. She learned about anarchism by reading books by Bakunin in her father’s library. Her parents set up an arranged marriage for her, which she did not approve. So, she emigrated to the U.S. in 1913, joining the ILGWU the next year. Her local, #25, was filled with militant women veterans of the 1909 Shirtwaist Strike. She wrote regularly for the New York Anarchist press, in both English and in Yiddish. She was friends with Italian-American anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti. In 1933, she organized immigrant Mexican garment workers, leading to the Los Angeles Garment Workers Strike. She also organized workers in Canada and Puerto Rico. Later in life, she worked briefly for the B’nai B’rith. She also wrote two memoirs, Bread Upon the Waters (1944),[6] and Days of Our Lives (1958).
Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution
Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Vladimir Putin viewed this attack on a neighbour as a legacy-defining mission, which sought to restore a central element of Russia’s sphere of influence and undo Ukraine’s surprisingly resilient democratic experiment.
While the world’s eye has shifted from #Ukraine to #Israel and #Palestine, a gentle reminder that the civil war in #Myanmar (or #Burma) continues to simmer. This video (from 2 days ago) shows members of the Burmese army fleeing to my state in #India, #Mizoram after being chased by members of the PDF. That river is the one I posted some months ago. Locals say that #China has changed its strategy from supporting the ruling Junta to the People’s Defense Armed Forces (PDF). #NoAgendaPost but informative, so sharing - with @mastodonindians too. If true, China’s strategy to support the PDF instead of the ruling Junta could mean a lot for #India - strategically and economically.
Friends support a woman during a funeral ceremony for her boyfriend, a Ukrainian soldier who was killed fighting Russian troops in the Zaporizhzhya region, during a funeral ceremony on Independence Square in Kyiv on November 7.