Dead nation walking
Regardless of who is our president, from either of the two ‘War Parties’, military spending has been going through the roof.
The problems and promise of the new Silk Roads
In a time when it seems we are constantly being divided from our common humanity, the symbolism of the new Silk Roads is important in and of itself.
Trump threatens destruction of Iran as ceasefire unravels and civilian casualties mount
Renewed US threats to destroy Iranian infrastructure and Tehran’s refusal to negotiate expose deepening diplomatic breakdown, legal concerns, and the human cost of escalation.
Activists rally in front of Trump Tower in Chicago to protest Syria missile strikes
When President Obama was faced with the same questions of intervention in 2013 after Assad and the Syrian government was accused of gassing its own people, many leading republicans came out and condemned a quick action.
Iran retaliation revives scrutiny of US military bases across the Gulf
Iranian strikes on Gulf energy sites and renewed threats against American installations are exposing how decades of US military expansion in the Middle East have tied Washington to regional regimes while increasing risks of wider war.
Military moral injury, iolence, and the parable of the Guinea worm
An unexpected encounter with compassion.
Moving on from the War on Terror?
Checking in after six months...
Autopilot wars
Sixteen years, but who’s counting?
Will the Trump administration move to use space weapons?
“What the U.S. is up to will destabilize the world.”
We must be relentless in humanizing Palestinians
The human cost of conflict: reckoning with the dehumanization in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.