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![A Swedish soldier sits on a military boat with a machine gun during the Baltic Operations NATO military drills on June 11, 2022, in the Stockholm archipelago on Sweden's eastern coastline.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1241249619-400x300.jpg)
NATO Membership May Spell the End of Finland and Sweden as Social Democracies
Finnish political scientist Heikki Patomäki analyzes internal dynamics shaping Finland and Sweden’s turn toward NATO.
![A wheat warehouse is seen in ruins from ongoing Russian attacks in Kopyliv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, on May 28, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0610-ukraine-wheat-400x300.jpg)
Climate Change Was Already Causing Hunger to Spike. Then Russia Invaded Ukraine.
A climate expert with the World Food Program says hunger is rising faster than at any other time in the 21st century.
![Sexual Violence by Russian Troops in Ukraine “Chronically Underreported,” U.N. & Amnesty Int’l Find](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/CopyofWebsiteButton-400x300.jpg)
Sexual Violence by Russian Troops in Ukraine “Chronically Underreported”
UN and Amnesty International representatives are calling on the international community to hold all parties accountable.
![Ukrainian troops fire with surface-to-surface rockets MLRS towards Russian positions at a front line in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 7, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0607-ukraine-mlrs-400x300.jpg)
Defense Contractors Are Using Tax Dollars to Profit Off War in Ukraine
More than half of the income taxes remitted to the U.S government are spent on Pentagon accounts.
![Corporate Media Is Leaving Pro-Negotiation Voices Out of Ukraine-Russia Reports](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/seg1-katrina-ukraine-400x300.jpg)
Corporate Media Are Leaving Pro-Negotiation Voices Out of Ukraine-Russia Reports
“The longer this war goes on, the much more difficult it is to end it,” says Katrina vanden Heuvel.
![Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in an economic forum of former Soviet countries held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, via a video link in Moscow, Russia, on May 26, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1240912840-400x300.jpg)
Putin Threatens to Escalate War If Ukraine Receives Long-Range Missiles
The threat was made after Russia launched at least five airstrikes on Ukraine's capital Kyiv early Sunday morning.
![Senators John Neely Kennedy, Lisa Murkowski and John Barrasso hold their news conference in the Capitol on gas prices on May 18, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1240746103-400x300.jpg)
GOP Wants to Blame Biden for Inflation. What About COVID and Capitalism?
COVID! Come on, you can say it, the monster is still under the bed, no sense pretending otherwise.
![A tractor drives through a feild, spreading dust in its wake](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0603-fertilizer-400x300.jpg)
Fertilizer Shortage Will Drive Global Food Prices Higher as Ukraine War Drags On
The UN estimates that the war alone could push global food prices up 22 percent.
![Smoke rises in the city of Severodonetsk during heavy fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops at eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on May 30, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1241003738-400x300.jpg)
Chomsky: We Must Insist That Nuclear Warfare Is an Unthinkable Policy
Heroic posturing from the U.S. isn’t reducing the risk of a nuclear conflagration over Ukraine, argues Noam Chomsky.
![Children walk near damaged cars in the city of Taez, Yemen, on May 17, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1240799047-400x300.jpg)
Corporate Media Fail to Cover War in Yemen Due to US Support for Saudi Arabia
Around 400,000 people have died and 16.2 million are on the brink of starvation in Yemen due to the Saudi-led war.