War in Ukraine

Following the success of the 1st edition, including a launch event with guest speakers Aaron Mate and Katie Halper, we will continue to leverage the authors’ substantial activist networks and social media followings to promote the book. Medea Benjamin has recently appeared on The Jimmy Dore Show and The Chris Hedges Report, and we will continue to schedule similar interviews and podcasts appearances to promote the 2nd edition. The authors have been featured in a number of media outlets, and we will capitalise on these contacts to pitch op-eds, excerpts, and reviews to a wide array of publications including The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The Nation, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Intercept, Bookforum, The Independent, Tribune, Morning Star, Monthly Review, and more.  Pitch television, radio, and podcast interviews to shows including Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera’s UpFront, The Dig, Intercepted, Citations Needed, On the Media, Rumble with Michael Moore, Under the Skin with Russell Brand, Useful Idiots, Bad Faith, Breaking Points, Empire Files, American Prestige, and more. 

In this new edition of their bestselling book, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies bring their account of the war in Ukraine up-to-date, to try and answer burning questions about how and why the conflict still rages on after two years of carnage, and who and what stand in the way of a stable and lasting peace. They examine the claims and counter-claims around the stalemate on the battlefield, the continuing expansion of NATO with the addition of Finland and Sweden, and contradictions in US and NATO policy as the war drags on.

They also examine the divisions among U.S. progressives that hindered the emergence of a strong anti-war movement and abandoned the anti-war position in Congress to the extreme right.

The authors describe Russia’s February 2022 invasion as a tragic and indefensible crime. However, they insist that Western government and media circles’ presentation of the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim is a distortion of a more complicated chain of events.

The West's reneging on promises not to expand NATO in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union revived Cold War tensions. The violent overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government in 2014 caused the disintegration of the country, and its failure to implement the Minsk peace agreement led to an escalating conflict that the world has so far failed to resolve, one that could conceivably end in all-out war between the United States and Russia-the world's two leading nuclear-armed powers.

Skillfully bringing together the historical record and current analysis, War in Ukraine looks at the events leading up to the conflict, surveys the different parties involved, and weighs the risks of escalation and opportunities for peace. For anyone who wants to get beneath the heavily propagandized media coverage to an understanding of a war with consequences that could prove cataclysmic, this widely acclaimed book will prove invaluable.