Dispatches After the Election of Trump My last dispatch was almost a month ago, on November 6, the day after Trump won the American presidential election. The main reason for the pause in dispatches is that my hosts in Ukraine, and then Poland, Germany, Czechia, and...

Election Reflections People in Ukraine were following the U.S. presidential election more intensely than most Americans. The future of their country might be at stake. Would Harris continue Biden’s miserly drip feed of ammunition and weapons to defend against Russia’s...

I arrived in Kyiv on the afternoon of November 2 to the sound of air raid sirens. The air raid warnings had been going on all day. They come by phone once you get the Air Alert app, which is one of the first things my hosts had me do. Now my phone screen is covered...

https://youtu.be/tf0OyzG9oIM In this October 29 interview, Alex Scrivener explains the political background and the high stakes in the October 26 parliamentary election, the allegations of extensive election fraud, and what could come next in this ongoing political...

Green politics in Georgia started out with a civic movement organization, the Greens Movement, during the late Soviet period in the late 1980s that was directly influenced by the emerging Green parties of Western Europe. The Greens Movement was an important force in...

I interviewed Ia Eradze, a leftwing political economist in Georgia, on October 28, two days after the controversial Georgia parliamentary election. We talked in the afternoon before a protest demonstration against election...

Georgian Opposition Takes to the Streets to Protest Stolen Election Monday, October 28 started in the morning with a call by Georgia’s independent President, Salome Zourabichvili, calling for people to protest outside the Georgia’s Parliament Building on that evening...

By Howie Hawkins The officially announced results of the parliamentary election in the country of Georgia yesterday are in dispute. The ruling Georgia Dream party declared victory, while the four major opposition parties called the election stolen. With more than 99%...

As Kermit the Frog famously said, “It’s not easy being Green.” That is true in Georgia as well as America. Georgian Greens are as familiar with Kermit’s lament as we are. Just to reinforce what I said in my last dispatch about how most Americans don’t know there is a...

Why Am I in Georgia? I am in Georgia — the country, not the state. Most Americans don’t know there is a country called Georgia. When I had to call customer service to figure out why my phone wasn’t making calls in Georgia despite the international plan I bought before...