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Thomas L. Knapp concludes that the only way to do away with war crimes is to do away with war

The history of warfare has no precedent for what is happening right now in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Never before has a nuclear power plant been on the front line of a major war, and indeed a main object of the warring parties’ strategies. How Russia, U...

Like Osama bin Laden, his predecessor as leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri had the blood of thousands of innocents on his hands. His death, announced by the White House on Monday, should be welcomed not just in the United States but everywhere his...

Recently, journalists and scholars have remarked on the double standards and racism embedded in US foreign policy. They point to the United States' swift denunciation of Russian atrocities in Ukraine, which have been described as shocking because th...

One of the ironies of Russia's war against Ukraine — ostensibly fought to prevent that nation from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation — has been its impact on two of Europe’s traditionally neutral states, Finland and Sweden. On May 18, ju...

A supermarket-run charity drive will be extended after it raised almost $23,000 to help people affected by the crisis in Ukraine. Customers of The MarketPlace supported the cause by rounding up their purchases to the nearest dollar. The 14-day campai...

As I write this, BBC reports that British foreign secretary Liz Truss is “urgently” investigating reports of a chemical weapons attack in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The US Department of Defence finds the reports “deeply concerning”. Usually when...

Russian troops in Ukraine have committed atrocities against civilians not seen since the Second World War, it has been claimed. But citizens of the war-torn nation who live in Bermuda warned that the full horror of what was happening in their homelan...

Vladimir Putin wants to recreate a Russian empire in Europe starting with the invasion of Ukraine. Western democracies must stop him

Dear Sir, Here is a greeting for arguably the baddest despot on the planet. Vladimir Putin, the toughest, most powerful Russian Bear, who orders the murder of innocent Ukrainian civilians, including children, from the safety of the Kremlin in the mos...

On March 9, a joint statement was released with the support of 20 local residents, regarding the importance of fostering peace, both globally and locally. While the full text of the statement has not been published, let me highlight our aim: to para...

It was about 10pm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when Russia decided to launch rockets against my home country on February 23. I remember sitting at my desk staring, frozen, watching from afar what was happening to my peace-loving, newly democratic Ukr...