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The Missing Art of the Deal with Iran
by Mel Gurtov 839 words Understanding the MOU Most of the critical commentary on the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran centers on the specific commitments each side is supposed to have made and intends to carry out. But the MOU is not a peace agreement; it is a framework for a potential…
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If war dead could speak
by Jerry Tetalman 1054 words If those killed in war could speak, this is what I imagine they would say. They would claim that war is humanity’s biggest moral failure and that war is the real enemy. They might ask, “Are we savage animals or are we civilized human beings?” and “When will war be outlawed?” …
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Trumptown—a planetary Jonestown
by Tom H. Hastings 491 words In 1978 in Guyana some 918 people—one-third of them children—were poisoned or shot dead in a religious sect community, Jonestown. Until 9.11.2001 it was the largest mass murder of civilians in US history. Of course, both those terrible events would pale alongside the civilian death count of any nuclear war,…