“Members of the Jury, You Have Just Found Jesus Christ guilty”: Remembering the Catonsville...
“On this Easter Weekend, I would like to focus on a few of the statements made by the Catonsville Nine, as recorded by Daniel Berrigan in ‘The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.’”
How Many Thousands of US Troops Would GOP Hopefuls Send to Iraq and Syria?...
Many GOP presidential hopefuls "wouldn’t rule out U.S. boots on the ground" in Iraq, or Syria for that matter. So if a Republican takes office come 2016 we can almost be guaranteed a return of combat troops to the Middle East.
Trump’s Saudi trip should not be to clinch arms deal but to end Yemen...
Trump should use his trip to put a halt to weapons sales and press the Saudis to sit with neighboring countries to find new political solutions.
War in Syria: 10 years and still counting
Despite a decade of battling and a wrecked country, al-Assad remains immovably in power on military help from Iran and Russia.
Demand another Camp David Accord
Whatever the solution, it has to be one in which the populace is disarmed and cannot confront one another.
Panama Papers Revelation of Assad Family’s Stolen Wealth Helps Explain the Syrian Revolution
Juan Cole discusses the history of Assad Family and their obsession with wealth and power.
Drug wars, missing money, and a phantom $500 million
More effective use of spreadsheets won’t solve the underlying problems of America’s wars or cure an addiction to policies that continue to fail.
What does ‘denuclearization’ mean in the negotiations for an end to the Korean War?
Maybe ending U.S. occupation of South Korea.
The profits of war
How corporate America cashed in on the post-9/11 pentagon spending surge.
Israel’s assault kills 174 children in Gaza in one of the deadliest 24 hours...
With at least 174 children killed in a single day, Israel’s renewed bombing campaign in Gaza marks one of the most devastating assaults in the region’s history, violating ceasefire agreements and worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis.