23 Mar, 2018
If John Bolton Is Right, Pearl Harbor Was Perfectly Legal
“John Bolton, President Trump’s new (and improved) National Security Advisor argues a nuclear first strike against N. Korea is “legal.”…”...
21 Mar, 2018
A Blank Check for Repression? A Saudi Leader Visits Washington
“It’s a classic narrative: the foreign dignitary of a US ally visits Washington, the Pentagon and State Department are intent...
21 Mar, 2018
Normalizing violence
“Addressing the Parkland shootings last month, and the apparent emergence of a movement for tougher, saner gun laws that has...
20 Mar, 2018
Students: Time is Ripe to Add Gender to Gun Debate
“It’s time to listen to the students. Across the country, teenagers have walked out of classes, stood in holy silence,...
20 Mar, 2018
Think Outside the Protest Box
“Protest. Petition. Call your senators. Nothing changes, right? No matter how large our demonstrations get, no matter how many millions...
19 Mar, 2018
Eliminate Nuclear Weapons by Divesting from Them
“We will not invest in our annihilation. Now we can avoid it.? Our world and everything we care about is...
17 Mar, 2018
Shame on you, Katy Perry
“I am appalled that pop singer Katy Perry planted an unwanted kiss on an American Idol contestant during her judging...
15 Mar, 2018
Breaking the ice
“Perhaps the best political news of the Trump era has been the emergence of sanctuary cities — city governments valuing...
12 Mar, 2018
Trump’s Attacks Earth, Resistance and Innovation
“In 1992, 1700 scientists from around the world signed a “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity…” Mel Gurtov Published in: Counterpunch,...
11 Mar, 2018
Although Two Out of Three Americans Oppose Increasing U.S. Military Spending, the U.S. Government Is Boosting It to Record Levels
“Early this February, the Republican-controlled Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed…” Lawrence Wittner Published in: Counterpunch, Daily Kos, War...
10 Mar, 2018
Trump Can Help Bring Peace to Korea, by Following South Korea’s Lead
“The developments regarding Korea this week are astonishing. We may be witnessing a breathtaking outbreak of peace, when not very...
10 Mar, 2018
The Rashomon Effect in a Trump-Kim Summit
“A film made some 68 years ago, Rashomon, featured a murder described by four eyewitnesses in four mutually contradictory ways....
9 Mar, 2018
We are the Legends of Tomorrow. An Essay of the Man from the North
“The clock is ticking. Tick. Tick. Tick. Can you hear it? We have only . . . ” Rivera Sun...
9 Mar, 2018
Defying the Hawks on the Way to a Trump-Kim Summit
“Donald Trump’s extraordinary decision to meet with Kim Jong-un has taken all the policy hawks by surprise—and led them to...
8 Mar, 2018
Getting to “Yes” with North Korea
“For the first time in quite a few years, direct US-North Korea dialogue seems within reach thanks to North-South Korea...