13 Apr, 2017
The mental limits of war
“A Morning Consult poll winks at me from my inbox: 57 percent of Americans support more airstrikes in Syria…” Robert...
12 Apr, 2017
Murdering martyrs: This too shall pass
“On Palm Sunday, suicide bombers detonated themselves at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, killing 44 and wounding 126…” James...
9 Apr, 2017
Trump’s Shortsighted Intervention in Syria
“Realism and Idealism Before April 6 The reaction of the Trump administration to the Syrian government’s use of sarin against”...
7 Apr, 2017
“They’ll Never Learn” Department: Trump and North Korea
“As Donald Trump prepares to meet Xi Jinping, his administration is going down the old road of believing it can...
6 Apr, 2017
Our Nuclear Folly
“The well-established assumption that North Korea is our most difficult and dangerous foreign policy challenge is worth a little dispassionate...
5 Apr, 2017
Caligula with orange hair
“So maybe this is how the U.S. demilitarizes, or the American public at least returns to the consciousness of the...
3 Apr, 2017
“Fifty Years On: MLK’s Giant Triplets Still Plague Us, Including Militarism.”
“Fifty years ago this April 4, a year to the day before he was murdered, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
2 Apr, 2017
The Great Distracter
“Three of Donald Trump’s latest ploys to distract attention from Russiagate have failed. First was Rep. Devin Nunes’ late night...
30 Mar, 2017
How many civilians can we kill?
“And so . . . another “precision” bomb strike in America’s war against terror. This was the scene in Mosul...
29 Mar, 2017
Let’s Come to Our Senses on Nukes
“President Trump, the tweeter-in-chief, famously used that platform to announce, “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear…”...
27 Mar, 2017
Why ICE Raids Imperil Us All
“A restaurant worker and father of four daughters in Southern California is arrested while dropping his youngest daughter off at...
26 Mar, 2017
Can Our Social Institutions Catch Up With Advances in Science and Technology?
“H.G. Wells, one of the most prolific and prominent novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…” Lawrence Wittner...
24 Mar, 2017
Disappeared on the Border: “Chase and Scatter” — to Death
“The sunbaked skull seemed to complement the volcanic rocks that lie strewn around it, haunting in its symmetry….” John Heid...
23 Mar, 2017
The mosque that disappeared
“We committed a quiet little war crime the other day. Forty-plus people are dead, taken out with Hellfire missiles while...
22 Mar, 2017
Nine-tenths of coal miners are gone
“America’s coal industry is sinking sadly. Tonnage, usually above 1 billion, dropped to 749 million tons in 2016…” James A....