‘The greatest fighting force in human history’
A most exceptional military makes its wars and their ugliness disappear.
The US-Israeli war on Iran is illegal. Here’s why that matters.
If this war continues without accountability, it threatens even more dire consequences in years ahead.
500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.
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.
The Founding Fathers would renounce, condemn America’s endless wars
They would decry the current situation in which a succession of U.S. presidents has usurped that power, probably the greatest violation of the Constitution in the history of this nation.
Can Guantánamo ever be shut down?
Dealing with the forever prison of America's forever wars...
Russia is from Mars, Ukraine is from Venus
Russia is acting like an abusive husband in this gendered conflict.
Duck Soup
To believe that our presidents have carte blanche to do the heinous deeds is foolish at best.
The Biden Doctrine and Afghanistan: Lean counter-terrorism and the end of bloated nation-building
Ironically, the collapse of the Afghanistan government is a powerful argument that the state-builders and counter-insurgency advocates failed miserably, but Biden took the blame for it.
You Must Be Kidding! Adventures in an American World of Frustration
Assassination, previously an illegal act, has become the heart and soul of Washington’s way of life.