New Saudi King to Obama: Lower-Price Oil Policy Won’t Change
Oil prices continue to plummet, hurting states in the U.S. such as North Dakota, where fractured petroleum can't compete with the prices. Yet, King Salman refuses to change the policy or give up Saudi Arabia's oil market share.
The myth of “moderate rebels” in Syria
They aren't moderate, they aren't Syrian, and they aren't rebels.
Dangerously Coherent: Hillary Clinton and Washington’s Foreign Policy Bubble
It will be up to the American people to push Hillary Clinton if she’s elected to realize this promise and not damage it with yet more intervention and military violence.
How George W. Bush dissed the U.S. intelligence community
The likelihood is that the crimes of Bush, Cheney, Libby and Rove so far revealed are only the tip of the iceberg.
Trump’s 100 days: U.S. air campaign hammers Yemen with almost a strike a day
The MOAB arrived in Afghanistan before the inauguration, on January 13.
The War on Terror has targeted Muslims almost exclusively
The war on terror was supposed to be about making our country safer. As a Muslim American, I don’t feel safer at all.
Three reasons why the climate crisis must reshape how we think about war
The relationship between war and climate change is complex. But here are three reasons why the climate crisis must reshape how we think about war.
Apologizing to My Daughter for the Last 15 Years of War
“I know I’m not the first parent to grow reflective watching his last child walk out the door, but I have a sense of what’s ahead of her: an American world filled with misplaced fears.”
Facing severe repression, Russians are turning to antiwar graffiti
As the Kremlin cracks down on antiwar protests, subversive street art critiquing the war in Ukraine is proliferating across Russia.
Where have all the children gone?
The loss of childhood and the cruel removal of any sense of hope or of a secure future have been seeping into global discourse about children for many years now.