What do we forget when we remember Hiroshima?
It's been 80 years of talking peace while preparing for nuclear war.
Paris Terrorist Was Radicalized by Bush’s Iraq War and Abu Ghraib Torture
Having American troops occupy Iraq for 8 years, humiliating its citizens and torturing people in military prisons, was a bad idea. Did Bush and Cheney model for the Kouashi brothers how you take what you want and rub out people who get in your way?
Candidates for 2015’s “Hypocrite of the Year”
There are so many candidates. But the people included here stand out in their various areas of nefarious behavior: warmaking, tax avoidance, consumer gouging, environmental destruction, and criminal arrogance.
America’s merchants of death then—and now
More Afghan-like tragedies will be inevitable until we squeeze the personal profit out of prepping for war.
Over 160 Gaza health workers detained, newborns freeze as Israel blocks aid
More than 160 Gaza health workers remain imprisoned in Israeli detention facilities as the medical system collapses, and newborns die from exposure due to Israel’s blockade of shelter and aid.
The Execution of Nimr Al-Nimr: One More Reason to Re-evaluate the Toxic U.S.-Saudi Alliance
The killing of Sheikh Al-Nimr should serve as a prime moment for the U.S. to reconsider its alliance with the Saudi regime, a regime that not only denies human rights to its own people but exports death and destruction abroad.
Why did the Afghanistan army fold so fast? Because they had nothing to fight...
Lessons go unlearned...
International inquiry demanded after mass grave uncovered near school yard in Gaza
"This is precisely why Israel was taken to the International Court of Justice with the accusation that it is committing genocide."
Bearing witness to the costs of war
On being a military spouse and writing about our post-9/11 wars.
Escalating conflicts: US, UK military actions in Yemen spark wider war concerns
Amidst Israel's Gaza operations, the US and UK's air strikes on Yemen heighten regional tensions, challenging international maritime security and legal norms.








