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Maine Voices: Calling out activism’s free pass for Russia and China
Demanding an end to war and planetary harm without uniformly protesting all participants is just playing the part of yet another antagonist.
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Maine Voices: Putin’s war in Ukraine requires us to maintain a difficult balance
We must continue to fight and to resist domination, at the same time that we keep seeking an alternative to arms and to annihilating one another.
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Maine Voices: Why the U.S. must not intervene in Ukraine
As Vladimir Putin is backed snarling into a corner, we are now only a few bad decisions away from nuclear annihilation.
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Maine Voices: A call to prevent nuclear war
Putin has put Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert. He may be just posturing, but no one benefits from the specter of a return to the Cold War.
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Belfast-native watches ‘chaos and panic’ from his window in Ukraine’s capital
Explosions, sirens and military vehicles turn once-peaceful Kyiv into ‘a real problem,’ says Ryan Weaver, who has lived there since 2020.
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Our View: Russian invasion of Ukraine a direct attack on postwar order
Ukraine’s military and people will bear the brunt of the attack, but Americans have every reason to support the country’s rights under international law.
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Commentary: A chance to pay homage to one of Maine’s unsung heroes
Visiting the Appleton grave of Joshua Ut Humble, 21, sparks more than grief – it’s a reminder of what’s lost in senseless, never-ending war.
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Maine Voices: Advent vigil at BIW recognizes that this is a time for peace
On the next four Saturdays, join us for an hour in Bath to raise awareness of the need for a disarmed world.
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Insight: The tale of Bar Harbor’s ‘Treasure Ship’
At the outbreak of the First World War, a German ship carrying silver and gold bullion tried to find safe harbor in Maine. The arrival kicked off a legal battle for the history books.