Reparations demanded 20 years after US launched ‘war-for-profit’ in Iraq
"Justice also entails accountability for the perpetrators of these horrific crimes, including those responsible for the torture."
More than 50 countries argue before World Court against Israeli occupation of Palestine
The request is separate from South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ.
Why Big Brother Lies (And How He Gets Away with It)
Peter Van Buren did something no US diplomat is allowed to do. He told the truth and told it to the wrong people – us. Our government is not in the habit of telling us – the governed – what it's up to.
The Republicans’ Military Budget Could Make Every Homeless Person In America a Millionaire
$596 billion was spent on the military in 2015 and Republicans are looking to increase the defense budget even more.
TrumPutin: Jobs, security, and buyer’s remorse
The Trump cabinet is defining itself as a military junta with predatory extractive capitalist cronies and climate change deniers a sort of General Goldman Sachs composite.
Restrictions on Syrian Refugees Driven by Fear, Xenophobia
Interview with Congressmember Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim member of Congress. “We’ve had 750,000 refugees come into this country since the year 2001. None of them – not one – has been engaged in terrorism,” Ellison says.
Our man in Riyadh
So there is more than a little poetic justice – or is it irony? – in General Abizaid’s proposed posting to Riyadh.
In wars and weapons we trust
When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I looked to the heavens: to God and Christianity (as arbitrated by the Catholic...
Stumbling into war?
Could the U.S. and China face an unintended blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden years?
Why did the Afghanistan army fold so fast? Because they had nothing to fight...
Lessons go unlearned...