Extorting Ukraine is bad enough
Recently a friend who follows the news a bit less obsessively than I do said, “I thought George W. Bush was bad,...
Trump is selling out America in Syria and beyond
The most xenophobic and isolationist American president in modern history has been selling America to foreign powers for his personal benefit. That’s...
Norvergence – From Syrian children holding Pokemon Go placard to save their lives to...
Environmentalists at Norvergence believe that the different ways in which today’s generation especially children are raising their voice against injustice or climate...
The forgotten trauma of a forgotten war
GOMA, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo -- The boy was sitting next to his father, as he so often did....
Nuclear powers once shared their technology openly – how Iran’s program fell on the...
As tensions remain at fever pitch between Tehran and Washington, Iran continues to breach limits agreed in the 2015 Iran deal, known...
Hypersonic weapons and national (in)security
Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4...
The struggle for peace in Afghanistan: Is community engagement the key?
I have just read a superb book by Mark Isaacs, an Australian who has documented several years of effort by a group...
Bestselling pentagon fiction
Caltech receives $750 million from bottled water industry billionaires
For the Pentagon, happy days are here again (if...
Mass killings in Afghanistan are acts of white supremacy
An American white nationalist killed over 30 people recently. The victims, all brown, had full lives; children, loved ones, and years, full...
A veteran in a world of never-ending wars and improvised explosive devices
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse…