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Russia's President Vladimir Putin is seen during a meeting with members of Russian business community in the Moscow Kremlin. (Alexei NikolskyTASS via Getty Images)

Kremlin propaganda disrupted by anti-Putin printer attack

Tom Boggioni
Hacking group "Anonymous" is sending statements that encouraging resistance to unsecured printers in the Kremlin
Flee (Neon)

“Flee”: Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees

Yael Friedman, Deborah Shaw
Let's hope that governments who set immigration policies heed this tale before turning away the asylum seekers
A Ukrainian serviceman walks towards the front line in the city of Irpin, northern Ukraine, on March 12, 2022. - Russian forces are positioned around Kiev on March 12, 2022 and are "blocking" Mariupol, where thousands of people are suffering a devastating siege, in southern Ukraine, a country that has been bombed for more than two weeks. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia’s war is an inexcusable crime — but the U.S. is not a credible force for peace

Norman Solomon
Russia bears sole responsibility for this ghastly tragedy — but decades of U.S. policy helped make it possible
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Experts outline exactly what Tulsi Gabbard gets wrong about U.S. and Russian press freedom

Alex Henderson
Legal experts and fact checkers dismantle the former Democratic representative's 'absurd' claim
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, his wife Yulia, opposition politician Lyubov Sobol and other demonstrators march in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in downtown Moscow on February 29, 2020. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, quotes “The Wire” after 9-year sentence in “sham” trial

Igor Derysh
Dissident's trial was overseen by a judge who received numerous calls from Putin's PR chief before getting promoted
Ukrainian displaced civilians wait in the train station as they flee from the war in Lviv, Ukraine on March 15, 2022. Since the start of Russian military operations in Ukraine on February 24th, more than 2.6 million civilians have been displaced into neighboring countries. (Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Report from Ukraine: Life goes on and spirits remain high — Putin wasn’t counting on that

Brian Karem
Lviv is flooded with refugees and Russian attacks continue — but Ukrainians understand their place in history
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy | A view of destruction at site after Russian attacks struck a shopping mall, in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 21, 2022. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Putin’s endgame: Will it be stalemate, nuclear war — or regime change in Moscow?

Chauncey DeVega
Putin is a "rational actor," says scholar Matthew Schmidt — but he still might use nuclear weapons to avoid defeat
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Amy Schumer (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

One cannot simply book Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the Oscars, Amy Schumer

Joy Saha
"I am not afraid to go there," said Schumer, who wants the leader of a war-town nation to appear on the awards show
Actress Gal Gadot attends the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Justice League' at Dolby Theatre on November 13, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Barry King/Getty Images)

When the war in Ukraine isn’t about you: The narcissistic tendency to co-opt tragedy, explained

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The impulse to see ourselves in every story is profoundly human, understandable — and often tone deaf
Russian President Vladimir Putin (Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP/ Getty Stock/ Salon)

Are Putin’s oligarchs plotting to topple him?

Stanislav Markus
The Russian oligarchs who have profited from Putin's presidency
US Representative Adam Kinzinger (CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

“Israel doesn’t have a special exemption”: Republican slammed for blasting lack of Russia sanctions

Jon Skolnik
"Everyone must pick a side," House Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger said of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Joe Biden | Rubble in Zhytomyr on March 02, 2022, following a Russian bombing the day before (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden must prepare: Republicans plan to exploit Ukraine for political gain — again

Heather Digby Parton
Biden's leadership has been steady and stalwart but "Democrats are a bunch of weak-kneed wimps" is a powerful meme
A woman looks at a computer screen watching a dissenting Russian Channel One employee entering Ostankino on-air TV studio during Russia's most-watched evening news broadcast, holding up a poster which reads as "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine in Moscow on March 15, 2022. - As a news anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva launched into an item about relations with Belarus, Marina Ovsyannikova, who wore a dark formal suit, burst into view, holding up a hand-written poster saying "No War" in English. (AFP via Getty Images)

Won’t someone, anyone stand up to protest Tucker Carlson, Putin’s biggest fanboy?

Kirk Swearingen
Marina Ovsyannikova stood up against Putin's war propaganda. Won't someone do the same to Putin's No. 1 fan?
Sunset over crashing ocean currents (Gordon Scammell/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Lockheed Martin’s deep-sea mining gets backlash

Brett Wilkins
"Mining the deep sea is as destructive as strip mining the mountains of Appalachia, extinguishing whole ecosystems with a single blow."
US President George W. Bush make a point during his State of the Union address 20 January 2004 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. In his speech, Bush had vowed that the United States "will never seek a permission slip" to go to war as he took aim in his annual State of the Union speech at critics of the invasion of Iraq. | Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of big businesses at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 24, 2022. - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said his country wanted to remain part of the world economy and had no plans to harm it. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, killing dozens and triggering warnings from Western leaders of unprecedented sanctions. Russian air strikes hit military installations across the country and ground forces moved in from the north, south and east, forcing many Ukrainians flee their homes to the sounds of bombing. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Stephen JAFFE/AFP/Alexey NIKOLSKY)

Putin’s massive miscalculation: Echoes of George W. Bush — and a lesson for America’s elites

Paul Rosenberg
Putin has fallen prey to "intelligence failures" and arrogant fantasy — and Americans should know all about that
President Reagan bids farewell to President of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko as he departs concluding talks at the White House (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Africa and the Ukraine war: Cold War hangover is keeping many African nations neutral

Mohammad Ali Salih
Many African countries remember the Soviet Union as an ally — and the U.S. as a backer of thugs and tyrants
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Defense Department's budget request on Capitol Hill on June 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images)

Lindsey Graham calls for assassination of Putin

Tom Boggioni
His statements are putting the U.S. at risk.
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne carry military equipment as they take part in a exercise outside the operating base at the Arlamow Airport on , 2022 in Wola Korzeniecka, Poland. The U.S., in response to the Russian military buildup and subsequent invasion of Ukraine and in concert with other NATO member states deploying additional troops across eastern European countries, has sent thousands of troops to Poland, where they have set up bases at Rzeszow and at two small airfields, both not far from Poland's border to Ukraine. Meanwhile fighting between the Russian military and Ukrainian armed forces is raging across Ukraine. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

America is united on the Ukraine war, right? Still, let’s follow the money

Shaan Sachdev
Public opinion, both parties and the Pentagon are together on this. That means it's time to ask some questions
Anti-aircraft missile system (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

How nuclear weapon safeguards work — or fail

Matthew Rozsa
From chains of command to complicated arming switches, this is what stops nuclear accidents from happening (so far)
A man walks amid debris in front of a residential apartment complex that was heavily damaged by a Russian attack on March 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces remain on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, but their advance has stalled in recent days, even while Russian strikes - and pieces of intercepted missiles - have hit residential areas in the north of Kyiv. An estimated half of Kyiv's population has fled to other parts of the country, or abroad, since Russia invaded on February 24. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Bombed out: Why we keep on making war, and tolerating it

Lucian K. Truscott IV
War is brand new every time it happens, and it's one of our oldest ideas. We claim to hate it, but it's part of us
Volodymr Zelenskyy in "Servant of the People" (ECCHO)

“Servant of the People” is an example of a politician living up to the promise he plays out on TV

Melanie McFarland
One day "Servant of the Poeple" may be considered one of the most successful long-game TV campaigns in history
Russia's President Vladimir Putin looks on during talks with US President Joe Biden at the Villa La Grange. (Mikhail MetzelTASS via Getty Images)

Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks

Chauncey DeVega
Never mind the opinion polls and the Republican posturing. When the right sees Putin, they want what he's got
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko greets the troops during a military drill outside Brest, on Sept. 12, 2021. (Maxim Guchek/BELTA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why is Belarus supporting Russia in Putin’s war with Ukraine?

Tatsiana Kulakevich
One of Ukraine's neighbors has stuck with Putin, and is now a key component in Russia's military strategy
U.S. President Joe Biden (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Biden warned that no-fly zone is an “act of war”

Jessica Corbett
Rep. Ilhan Omar similarly said on the House floor that "it would mean the beginning of World War III."
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