Friday, March 29, 2024

Respond to Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine with diplomacy, not war

Urgent diplomacy and humanitarian aid—and Russia’s own antiwar movement—could stop the suffering.

Organizations call on Biden to incorporate nuclear disarmament into campaign

"The United States urgently needs a leader who will have the courage to look at, think hard about, and speak openly about the dire perils posed by our country's vast nuclear arsenal."

Ending the myth that Trump is ending the wars

Trump has sent more new troops to the Middle East than he’s bringing home from Afghanistan.

Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the left

In not recognizing multiple imperialisms, is the Left also guilty of Americocentrism?

How the last superpower was unchained

Clueless is not a word Americans ordinarily apply to themselves as a country, a people, or a government. Yet how applicable it is.

Combat veterans tell us what we need to know about war

"Enough of the horror!"

‘If you are wondering who benefits’: Weapons makers see stocks surge as Trump moves...

"As is always the unfortunate case, defense stocks tend to benefit from perceptions of heightened risk and the potential for geopolitical conflict."

Understanding the North Korea threat

If the U.S. could deter a much stronger Soviet Union from taking an isolated West Berlin for three decades, it can deter North Korea.

Failed States and States of Failure

We have no idea what it means at this point in history to turn a region, city by city, country by country, into something like a vast failed state and then continue to bomb the rubble.

Laundered legacies

Colin Powell’s failure to act with integrity on that occasion is what led to the deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Sorry, his legacy is shattered by that historic crime.