What if? An alternative strategy for 9/12/2001
“Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.” –Thucydides
War zone America?
Military families — most so much more than mine — have already suffered for far too long without watching our own country become a new war zone.
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.
Roses dressed in black
The words and actions of our nation’s leaders have revealed a staggering, even willful, historical amnesia about the disastrous repercussions of America’s twenty-first-century war-mongering.
The alarming rise of civilian deaths in the war on terror
New reports show an escalation in civilian casualties from U.S. operations in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia — and a pattern of U.S. denial about the scale of the problem.
Friend or Foe? How Turkey’s Turn Toward Authoritarianism Threatens Syria and the World
Although NATO countries have worse, more despotic allies in the region, like the tyrannical monarchies of the Gulf, Turkey’s erratic, arrogant leader is arguably the most dangerous.
What do we forget when we remember Hiroshima?
It's been 80 years of talking peace while preparing for nuclear war.
Donald Trump in South Sudan
Most people thought Trump was going to flame out long ago. Now that he hasn't, what are people afraid of?
Peace talks essential as war rages on in Ukraine
The only realistic alternative to this endless slaughter is a return to peace talks to bring the fighting to an end, find reasonable political solutions to Ukraine’s political divisions, and seek a peaceful framework for the underlying geopolitical competition.
Spurring an endless arms race
Why is the Pentagon budget so high?