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.
More tragedy in Afghanistan is just beginning after the US withdrawal
Afghan civilians have always disproportionately experienced the effects of war and they will now also disproportionately experience what may be an even worse peace — if one can even call it that.
Would a draft matter?
Maybe the real conclusion should be that, as long as war is this country’s default option and peace the aberration, reinstating the draft would amount to little more than a change of wardrobe.
Media largely ignored Gaza famine when there was time to avert mass starvation
Major U.S. media, likewise, bear a share of responsibility for the hunger-related deaths in Gaza.
Apathy in the American Medical Association
It is well past time that they break their silence.
Trump threatens Iran as peace talks advance despite Israel’s Lebanon escalation
As mediators report a 60-day roadmap toward a final deal, Trump’s threats, Iran’s Hormuz warning, and Israel’s refusal to withdraw from Lebanon are testing whether diplomacy can survive another push toward regional war.
Shooting alone
If only we were to reshape our priorities in enough time to vote in leaders who cared about peace, perhaps our democracy and the ideas that define it wouldn’t be coming apart at the MAGA seams.
Who’s really in charge of the Afghanistan War?
Trump is letting non-elected generals decide to hurl another 4,000 of our men and women into the Afghanistan War.
The US nuked two cities in WWII and has threatened to use them often...
The threats have indeed been made, and they could potentially be more than bluffs.
Can NATO and the Pentagon find a diplomatic off-ramp from the Ukraine war?
The precarious fine line the United States and NATO are walking in Ukraine, caught between their commitment to an open-ended, ever-escalating war and the existential danger of nuclear war that it may lead to.