Thursday, June 18, 2026

Why war?

Can we not rid the world of the institution of war?

Vladimir Putin: Global gunman

Why are we concerned about humiliating mass murderers?
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Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war brings Gaza to the brink...

Alex de Waal says famine in Gaza is “inevitable” as those warnings have been ignored and Israel’s war on Gaza is poised to continue.
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Palestinian American Dr. walks out of Biden meeting, hands him letter from 8-year-old orphan...

The curtailed meeting was itself met with protests, including from Palestinian American emergency room physician Dr. Thaer Ahmad, who walked out after handing Biden a letter from an 8-year-old orphaned Palestinian girl

An American century of carnage

Measuring violence in a single superpower world.

The stories war tells me

A veteran and parent can’t stop thinking about the war he fought.

The ecological impact of militarism

“In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.”

He fought the law: Will the law win?

Now that the International Criminal Court has requested a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest on war crimes, he may become a global outlaw as well.

The smearing of Cori Bush for being truthful about the Gaza war

Such formulaic manipulation has long been fundamental to claims that the Israeli government represents “the Jewish people” and criticisms of its actions are “antisemitic.”

How many people have the US and Israel killed in Iran?

Why the real numbers of people killed are almost certainly much higher and why this matters with the conflicting estimates of the death toll in occupied Iraq 20 years ago.