Peace in Ukraine: Victory Over the New Fascism: Voices of Solidarity Against War and Authoritarianism

Uncover the stark realities tearing apart the antiwar movement worldwide: dark money from nefarious regimes run by nefarious dictators has corrupted the peace coalition that was once united in opposition to the Second Iraq War. As Alexander Reid Ross and others have uncovered, pundits and media outlets such as Russia Today have had a disproportionate level of influence on left-wing public opinion. That once-controversial claim has now become mainstream: Nancy Pelosi and Marco Rubio have called for investigations which, however, raise the issue to an inappropriate level and threaten free speech everywhere.This issue raised its ugly head when the left splitover the Syria question, following some divergence during the Bosnian conflict. This book unravels much of what is behind this issue, Virtually every mainstream human rights organization including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN Human Rights Commission has cast a jaundiced eye on regimes such as that of Bashar al-Assad.Surprisingly,a coterie of left-of-center commentators dismissed serious charges against the Syrian regime as "colonialist propaganda." A conference in Tehran brought together Holocaust deniers, antisemites, and prominent leftist commentators, and subsequently, many overtly fascist-leaning circuit riders have been popping up at rallies against funding Ukraine's resistance to the Russian occupation and, more recently, infiltrating the pro-Palestine rallies.On the other hand, politicians such as Rubio and Pelosi have unduly hyped the relationship between Chinese-American sponsors and peace movement activists, threatening to bring a new McCarthyism to bear upon US citizens. The allegation that opposition to elements of the Israel war on Gaza is "what Putin wants" is an absurdity that distorts the obvious fact that Russian foreign policy has been largely critical of Israel over the years. (It is also true that there are certain operational "understandings" between Russia and Israel, and that may have something to do with Israel's r