Friday, June 5, 2026

The Year Iraq Ceased to Exist: Will It Ever Again?

Most likely the Sunni Arabs will be brought back under Baghdad’s sway, but Kurdistan has disappeared except on paper. Can Iraq be put back together?

Why war? Building on the legacy of Einstein, Freud and Gandhi

If we want to end war, we must halt the adult war against children as a priority.

U.S. support enables deadly Gaza school bombing

Palestinian officials blame the United States for its role in the tragic bombing of a school in Gaza, highlighting the consequences of unwavering U.S. military and financial support for Israel.
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Israel sends tanks into West Bank amid ‘de facto annexation’ of Palestinian lands: Mariam...

“What we are seeing is an intensified campaign aimed at annexation of the West Bank.”

America Revisits the Dark Side

Candidates compete to promise the most torture and slaughter. Are war crimes are back on the American agenda?

US wants release of two special forces veterans who led failed coup invasion of...

The U.S. Embassy is useless for most citizens in trouble abroad, but not if you've invaded a country.

This vanishing moment and our vanishing future

John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the end of world...

Moral injury and the forever wars

What Americans don’t want to hear...

What can the United States bring to the peace table for Ukraine?

The United States bears its share of responsibility for this crisis that is destroying Ukraine and placing the world in "unprecedented danger," as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' new Doomsday Clock statement calls it.

Strikes Gaza as six newborns succumb to fuel shortage at Al-Shifa Hospital

Does this situation shines a spotlight on the urgent need for humanitarian intervention and an end to the ongoing crisis in the region?