Syrian missile attack, an opportunity to challenge militarism
We must lift the fog of war before it gets too thick.
What a policy of real solidarity with the Syrian people looks like
The U.S. does not have to choose between backing the Assad regime or extremist groups. There is another choice: Syria’s homegrown pro-democracy resistance.
Chris Hedges criticizes mainstream media’s ‘cheerleading’ for Syria strike
“The corporate media has presented precisely the narrative and the images that the deep state wants.”
The pandora’s box of war
None of the insurgents in the region will willingly lay down their weapons until the U.S. occupation of the Middle East ends.
Resurrecting the unholy trinity
Torture, rendition, and indefinite detention under Trump
Activists rally in front of Trump Tower in Chicago to protest Syria missile strikes
When President Obama was faced with the same questions of intervention in 2013 after Assad and the Syrian government was accused of gassing its own people, many leading republicans came out and condemned a quick action.
Why these missile strikes won’t make things better for the Syrian people
There are serious questions as to whether Trump’s bombing of the Syrian base has anything to do with protecting civilians.
50 years later, a speech by King has lessons for a president
Difficult work remains for those in whom Martin Luther King Jr. had the most hope: the people, organizing grass-roots power for peace.
The spoils of war: Trump lavished with media and bipartisan praise for bombing Syria
The one constant of American political life is that the U.S. loves war. Martin Luther King’s 1967 denunciation of the U.S. as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” is more accurate than ever.