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About Eva Bartlett

Eva Bartlett is a Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years).
  • Palestinian photojournalist Bilal Mohamed Rajab was killed in an Israeli airstrike. – Mada Masr

    A massacre within a massacre: How journalists reporting on Gaza deaths are being targeted

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on November 3, 2024 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Over 160 media workers have been killed and 60 detained as the methodical destruction of the brutalized Strip continues.

  • The author with Pyatnashka commanders at outpost near Avdeevka, Donetsk People’s Republic. [Source: Photo courtesy of Eva Bartlett]

    Maligned in Western Media, Donbass forces are defending their future from Ukrainian shelling and fascism

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on November 19, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    America is widely understood to be a key instigator behind conflict in Ukraine that has pitted brother against brother.

  • ‘Caution, mines!’ Donetsk. (© Eva Bartlett.)

    The West is silent as Ukraine targets civilians in Donetsk using banned ‘butterfly’ mines

    Originally published: The Scrum on August 8, 2022 (more by The Scrum)

    The use of PFM-1 explosives against civilians is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions—but this evidently isn’t stopping Ukraine.

  • Remnants of the Uragan MLRS rocket which struck the Donetsk maternity hospital June 13. © Eva Bartlett / RT

    Western media and politicians prefer to ignore the truth about civilians killed in Donetsk shelling

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on June 16, 2022 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Following intense Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk on June 13, some Western media sources, in tandem with outlets in Kiev, unsurprisingly claimed that the attack–which killed at least five civilians and struck a busy maternity hospital–was perpetrated by Russian forces.

  • Donetsk Market

    Ukrainian strike on Donetsk Market was a terrorist act

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on April 30, 2022 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    When artillery hit a busy public space in Donetsk, it brought flashbacks of attacks in Gaza and Syria.

  • Mass Graves

    Here’s what I found at the reported ‘mass grave’ near Mariupol

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 29, 2022 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    According to recent Western media, Russian forces have buried up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians in “mass graves” in a town just west of the Ukrainian city.

Monthly Review Essays

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