8 Sep, 2017
The Endangered Nuclear Deal with Iran
“Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, said the other day that Iran had violated the spirit of the...
6 Sep, 2017
Begging for war
““There are no good options,” Brian Williams said the other night on MSNBC, launching a discussion about North Korea with...
5 Sep, 2017
Sixth grade recess
“How close are we today to nuclear war between the United States and North Korea? As close as somebody in...
2 Sep, 2017
Echoes of Reagan: Another Nuclear Buildup
“Thirty years ago Americans endured an absurd expansion of the US nuclear-weapon force under President Reagan…” Mel Gurtov Published in:...
1 Sep, 2017
Imploring President Trump to Reconsider Reinstating Program Offering Military Surplus to Police
“On August 28, the Trump administration unveiled a new plan to roll back limits President Obama had placed in 2015...
30 Aug, 2017
The Man Who Stood Up to Armageddon
“Suddenly it’s possible — indeed, all too easy — to imagine one man starting a nuclear war. What’s a little...
29 Aug, 2017
Credibility Equals Annihilation
“There is no more sacred cow in American foreign policy, and none more in need of examination, than the notion...
28 Aug, 2017
It is Human-Caused Disaster and it is Avoidable
“When Donald Trump heads to Texas for his photo ops this week it is a completely selfish act. It is...
26 Aug, 2017
Pardoning Arpaio: The Power not the Right
“How do I know the Constitution is the supreme law? How do I know the Constitution is supreme over Congress...
24 Aug, 2017
American Exceptionalism
“The government of the United States proposes to “save” 5,000 government bureaucrats and their secretaries (no wives or kids)…” Kary...
23 Aug, 2017
Farewell, Steve Bannon
“Steve Bannon’s rise to fame and (some) power was at least as much the product of the media as of...
23 Aug, 2017
Facing History In the Age of Trump
so achieves nothing beyond a fleeting sense of satisfaction…” Robert C. Koehler Published in: Common Dreams, Free Press, Tribune Content...
20 Aug, 2017
“We burned down every town in North Korea”
““We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way...
18 Aug, 2017
Trump’s Collapsing World
“As Trump’s world collapses around him—abandoned by CEOs, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, several key Republicans in Congress, and some...
17 Aug, 2017
The Poison of White Supremacist Masculinity
“Like our slaveholding first president—not our current one—I cannot tell a lie: we must chop down the poisonous tree of...