Saturday, December 20, 2025

Burning Raqqa

The U.S. war against civilians in Syria.

Dominating the Skies — and Losing the Wars

Air Supremacy Isn’t What It Used to Be.

Violent coup fails in Nicaragua, US continues regime change efforts

Peace and justice advocates must be grounded in anti-imperialism and nonintervention by the United States.

Images of Gaza’s starving babies have gone round the world. This is what malnutrition...

Between April 2025 and March 2026, there will be 71,000 cases of acute malnutrition among children under five, including 14,100 severe cases.

America at war since 9/11

Reality or reality TV?

The Top Nine Developments that Defined the Struggle between Democracy and Plutocracy in 2015

“Just as democracy and peace are mutually reinforcing, perpetual war and perpetual corruption are mutually reinforcing. The concentrated power involved in conducting war corrupts; corruption undermines democracy, the surest way to peace.”

What rough beast?

President Biden’s Gaza policy leaves the Middle East in flames.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Palestine visit revealed the plain, brutal truth of apartheid

His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States.

Remembering America’s first (and longest) forgotten war on Tribal Islamists

Precious few today have ever heard of America’s Moro War, fought from 1899 to 1913, but it was, until Afghanistan, one of America’s longest sustained military campaigns.

Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon kill dozens amid intensified ground offensive

Israeli forces launched their most intense bombing campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon, targeting key areas and prompting international calls for ceasefire.