Saturday, June 7, 2025

US Senate unveils aid bill amidst criticism over support for Netanyahu’s military actions

The unfolding scenario brings to light the complexity of U.S. foreign aid and its ramifications on international relations and human rights.

My Pentagon regret

As the U.S. rattles its sabers at Tehran, echoes of sabers past.

With nearly 400,000 dead in South Sudan, will the US change policy?

It's a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?

Should we feed hungry children, or the war machine?

On August 21, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, put out a heartbreaking call for nations to make good on their pledges...

Stumbling into war?

Could the U.S. and China face an unintended blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden years?

Time to stop modernizing America’s nukes and to start negotiating peace

Building more atomic bomb triggers is the ‘pits.’

The beginning of the end for nuclear weapons

Few antiwar activists ever thought they'd see nuclear weapons banned, but thanks to dedicated organizing, a historic UN treaty goes into effect today.

Israel blocks 90% of UN aid to North Gaza as death toll surpasses 46,000

Palestinians in northern Gaza face famine, freezing temperatures, and medical collapse as Israel continues to block nearly all humanitarian aid.

Killing civilians in Iraq and Syria

The Trump administration has shifted from extermination to annihilation in its war against the Islamic State.

‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000 Holocausts

Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”