The persistent allure of military coups
Executions and war are not the inevitable sequel to a popular uprising.
Who wants to kill and die for the American Empire?
The U.S. policy of proxy war, relying on allies to do the killing and dying in order to avoid domestic political blow back over U.S. casualties, has led us to the brink of war with Russia and Iran.
GOP leaders met with Israeli minister who called for bombing Gaza aid depots
Israeli national security minister claims Republican leaders supported his calls to target humanitarian supplies in Gaza, a move condemned as a war crime by international experts.
The torture-friendly Trump administration
Only stupid people say torture works – and one of them is sitting in the White House.
As corporate media looks the other way, US-backed Saudi bombing campaign kills dozens in...
"Instead of providing healthcare to sick Americans or education, this is what your tax dollars are going towards. Enough is enough."
Starving and bombed children of Yemen seek entrapment in flooded Thai cave
“Am I pleased that the 12 children and their coach in Thailand were rescued? Of course I am. I just wish that an equivalent effort was being made to rescue each of the 50,000 children we will kill today, tomorrow, the next day and the day after that….”
UNICEF warns child casualties are becoming catastrophic as evidence grows in Iran school bombing
More than 1,100 children have been killed or wounded across the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched war on Iran while investigations point to outdated intelligence behind the Minab school strike.
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.
The Vietnam and Gaza wars shattered young illusions about US leaders
Six decades later, it took much less time for young Americans to turn decisively against their government’s key role of arming Israel’s war on Gaza.
Endless war is a feature of our national programming
Do we have the collective courage to make a better fate for ourselves by pulling the plug on the war machine?









