War

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?

In September, national security adviser John Bolton threatened U.S. sanctions against ICC judges if they continued to investigate alleged war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

We want a serious change in our federal spending priorities away from destruction to actual human needs.

A plastic surgeon and Army veteran, Adam Hamawy is on a volunteer mission with the Palestinian American Medical Association at the European Hospital in Khan Younis.

Contrary to previous reports, all identified terrorists involved in the Paris attacks last week were European nationals. Does this affect the outlook on Syrian refugees resettling in foreign countries?

"It's not just my family, there are dozens of families just like mine who have been lost in bombings. The people have no power... We are the ones who are dying."

The central advantage to a wealth tax is that it spreads the power to spend wealth throughout the society and thereby can better the society if done in an appropriate way.

Prisoners have been released, the bombings have stopped. But Palestinians are no closer to determining their own future

In as little as fifteen to twenty years, petroleum may be illegal in some places; and will be in retreat everywhere.

Tom Engelhardt tells a little story about a bottle, a message, time, war (American-style), his mother and himself. Here's to Irma the caricaturist.