Sunday, October 6, 2024

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.
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Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 13,000 as Israel repeatedly strikes UN schools housing...

We speak with Tamara Alrifai, spokesperson for UNRWA, about the organization sheltering close to a million Palestinians from Israel’s assault, which has killed 104 of her colleagues since the beginning of the war.

Je Suis Istanbul

We should not need to share a culture, skin color, religion, or system of government with another human being to mourn their loss.

Watching my students turn into soldiers of empire

A new generation of west pointers joins America’s hopeless wars.

Ask yourself: Will Donald Trump EVER become president?

As our institutions bend and buckle and approach the breaking point, the president bombs Syria and is hailed by an obeisant media.

Joe Biden, anti-interventionist president?

If the Biden Administration has successfully pulled away from the unpopular and unwinnable ‘War on Terror’, why aren’t they taking credit for it and winning over the segment of the U.S. population that might rally behind him for doing so?

Manna from Hell

While soldiers who go to war risk death, the big corporations that go to war reap perpetual profits.

The first 100 days of a Trump presidency

It remains to be seen how much of this plan will be realized and how much was just campaign rhetoric.

Drone Whistleblowers Step Out of the Shadows

In Washington’s drone wars, collateral damage comes home.

Beyond ISIS

For a rich and powerful nation to conclude that it has no choice but to engage in quasi-permanent armed conflict in the far reaches of the planet represents the height of folly. Power confers choice.