Barbara Felitti: As under Stalin, Russia is trying to break Ukrainian spirit...
This commentary is by Barbara Felitti, a resident of Huntington who retired after 28 years with the Montpelier-based Institute for Sustainable Communities. She lived and worked in Ukraine from 2005 to...
View ArticleNarain Batra: In many ways, it's a wonderful year for freedom and democracy
This commentary is by Narain Batra, a media and First Amendment scholar affiliated with the diplomacy and international program in the graduate college at Norwich University. He lives in Hartford. Joy...
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Why Bread and Puppet, the anti-war theater group, is curiously quiet about...
A performance of the Apocalypse Defiance Circus from the Fall 2022 tour. Photo by Sal DeVincenzo/Courtesy of Bread and Puppet In its half a century as a voice of the counterculture from its base in...
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Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine to perform in Vermont
The Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine will be hosted by Catamount Arts at the Lyndon Institute auditorium on Jan. 29 at 7 p.m. Courtesy photo In the midst of Russia’s continued attacks...
View ArticleMarc Estrin: Bread and Puppet’s view: There is no act of war or violence that...
This commentary is by Marc Estrin, a writer who lives in Burlington. Jon Kalish, in his Jan. 8 Digger piece "Why Bread and Puppet, the anti-war theater group, is curiously quiet about Ukraine," is not...
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Best of the Vermont Conversation: Yale professor Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder, historian and author, teaching at Yale University on June 20, 2017. Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth...
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Katherine Bielawa Stamper: In Ukraine, Nata creates theater in a war zone
Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and...
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Jay EMS provider to send spare ambulance to Ukraine
The ambulance that the Missisquoi Valley Ambulance Service is donating to Ukrainian EMS providers. Courtesy photo The maroon-and-gold ambulance has responded to calls in the Northeast Kingdom for...
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Liam Madden: What is more reckless than an act of war that gains us nothing?
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Narain Batra: Criminals and profiteers are the vultures of war
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Vermont nonprofit founded by ice cream magnate Ben Cohen opposes U.S. support...
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen is the “primary donor” to the Eisenhower Media Network, which enlists U.S. military veterans to speak out against U.S. involvement in Ukraine. VTDigger file...
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Bruce Dayton: It’s time to explore a diplomatic off-ramp in Ukraine
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View ArticleBarbara Felitti: Putin chose to invade; he doesn’t get to choose the ‘off-ramp’
This commentary is by Barbara Felitti of Huntington, who retired after 28 years of international development work, including 15 years with the Montpelier-based Institute for Sustainable Communities....
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David Moats: Tokens of faith and hope for Ukraine hidden away in the woods of...
A tall pole next to a hiking trail in the woods of Bristol is wrapped in yellow and blue ribbons — the colors of Ukraine. Photo by David Moats Overlooking a pond next to a hiking trail in the woods of...
View ArticleDavid Kelley: Strange bedfellows — Ben Cohen and Marjorie Taylor Greene
This commentary is by David Kelley of Greensboro, co-founder of PH International, a former visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Russian Research Center and the author of numerous books and...
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As war drags on, Randolph remembers Myrhorod, Ukraine
Dayna Sabatino, center, describes the process of restoring a 20-year-old tile mosaic during a gathering in Depot Square on Friday. The mosaic honors the sister city relationship between Randolph and...
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Michael Shank: A fossil fuel gold rush is not what Ukraine needs from us
This commentary is by Dr. Michael Shank, a resident of Montpelier who is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace...
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Vermont Conversation: WSJ reporter Brett Forrest on upheaval in Russia
Brett Forrest is an award-winning national security reporter. His new book is “Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI’s Secret Wars.” Courtesy photos The Vermont Conversation with David...
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Barre bakery building, no stranger to calamity, cleans up from floods
Jim Haas, left, and Larissa Haas inside their shop, Rise Up Bakery in Barre, on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. The couple runs the bakery together and are cleaning up from historic flooding. Photo by Auditi...
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Kolby LaMarche: U.S must abandon Ukraine
This commentary is by Kolby LaMarche, who describes himself as a leftist from Burlington. I apologize if this headline unsettles you, but it’s necessary. And, to some of the public, this very headline...
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In supplemental budget proposal, Biden recommends $12B for FEMA, but leaves...
Main Street in Montpelier is seen on Aug. 7, three weeks after the July 2023 flood. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger President Joe Biden on Thursday released a supplemental budget that, if passed,...
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Antiwar demonstrators urge Sanders to seek diplomacy in Ukraine
The Vermont Peace AntiWar Coalition marches up Church Street in Burlington to the offices of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, to demand a ceasefire and negotiations in the Ukrainian war on...
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Kem Phillips: If NATO countries cave in, Putin the war criminal will be...
This commentary is by Kem Phillips of Cavendish, a retired statistician who served stateside in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971. Several statements by demonstrators reported in the VTDigger article...
View ArticleCrystal Zevon: ‘Why Bernie? Isn’t he one of the good guys?’
This commentary is by Crystal Zevon, a resident of West Barnet. As a Vermonter, I was one of 11 people arrested at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Washington, D.C., office on Oct. 4, calling for the senator to...
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‘It does rely a lot on good faith’: As Derby group drew praise and dollars...
Agape Ministries housed Ukrainian refugees in the former Derby Green nursing home. Behind the scenes, local, state and federal authorities scrambled to figure out what was going on inside the home —...
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Liam Madden: Is Vermont’s congressional delegation making empty gestures?
This commentary is by Liam Madden of Brattleboro, a Marine Corps veteran, a national antiwar leader, an MIT Climate Change Solver, and winner of a human rights award from the Institute for Policy...
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Bernie Sanders votes against Ukraine aid package, citing unconditional...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a Vermont Democratic Party gathering in Burlington on Election Day in November 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Updated at 10:13 p.m. A major foreign aid...
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Bernie Sanders, Peter Welch split over border reform, foreign aid deal
Peter Welch (left) and Bernie Sanders. Photos by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger and Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermont’s two delegates to the U.S. Senate staked out opposite positions Wednesday on a key...
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Sanders, Welch break with Democrats to vote ‘no’ on Israel, Ukraine aid package
Peter Welch (left) and Bernie Sanders. File photos by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger and Glenn Russell/VTDigger In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Vermont’s two U.S. senators voted against a $95 billion...
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David Moats: Inspiration from Ukrainian students at Middlebury
Sofiia Tretiak, front, staged “Kalyna,” a Ukrainian folk dance, at Middlebury College. Photo by David Moats On the same day that the Russian army forced Ukrainian soldiers to retreat from the eastern...
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