Tag: terrorism
Give peace a chance
You work for peace because “it’s a moral responsibility to oppose the war machine."
Legislators urge Biden to overhaul drone program
Fifty legislators recently sent a letter to President Joe Biden requesting him to overhaul U.S. counterterrorism policy to center human rights and the protection of civilians.
’20 years of US torture and counting’: Report details post-9/11 abuse...
"Thus far, Biden administration actions raise sobering questions about its commitment to ending the so-called 'War on Terror.'"
Terrorism: A false threat
Millions starve. Millions die yearly from preventable diseases. Millions die as a consequence of wars. Compared with these numbers, the total count of terrorist victims is vanishingly small.
The only way to effectively counter terror is to end war
Collectively, recognizing the terrible legacy of 9/11, we must agree: To counter terror, abolish war.
Insurgent extremists bet the farm, touting street terrorism, medical malpractice &...
Street violence offends the vast majority, and extremism doubles down the downside.
Time to trash the terrorist watch list, a police-state Frankenstein gone...
Any political blacklist that has a million names of “suspected terrorists” is a caricature of a police state run amok.
Will Biden’s America stop creating terrorists?
If the Biden administration really wants to stop fueling chaos and terrorism in the world, it must radically transform the CIA.
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What red state vs. blue state looks like to an ant
Signs of decline and decay are all around us, behind the glitter and the glitz.
Ukraine and the lessons of the Iraq War
Only those who have failed to learn the lessons of the Iraq War would fail to make the same demand of Russia as a prerequisite for a just peace today.
Lack of safe drinking water for city dwellers to double by 2050: UN report
The report found that water scarcity is also becoming more common in rural areas, with water shortages affecting from two to three billion people for at least a month out of each year.
Senior climate activists rally across US to ‘stop dirty banks’
"We must break the big banks' addiction to Big Oil."
A highway to peace or a highway to hell?
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, fully engaged in corralling, containing, and constraining it, Eisenhower concluded, could save democracy and bolster peaceful methods and goals.