Tag: war
Do you want a new Cold War?
Because that’s just where the Biden administration is clearly taking us.
The US killer drone program stays afloat on the back of...
A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties.
Personal interview: Lt. Col. William J. Astore What are the Prospects...
We speak with William J. Astore, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, about his ideas for improving the prospects for peace.
Stop calling the military budget a ‘defense’ budget
Let’s blow away the linguistic fog. The Pentagon budget is not a “defense” budget.
Why the Taliban’s promise to stop the opium trade rings hollow
Uncertainty abounds over what the Taliban’s opium policy will actually look like. In the meantime, the farmers are planting the seeds for next year’s crop right now.
The names you’ll never know
Over the last 20 years, the United States has conducted more than 93,300 air strikes that killed between 22,679 and 48,308 civilians.
Former member of Afghan Parliament says U.S. war ushered in “another...
“International solidarity, we can initiate … by creating harmony and unity and working together — not with governments, but the people.”
Personal interview: Paul Craig Roberts What are the Prospects for Peace?
The interview focus is on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time.
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Researchers credit stronger enforcement and environmental protections in Brazil while warning that fires, illegal logging, and political threats continue to endanger the rainforest.
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...
Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?
The fuel to my revolutionary optimism
As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine, where over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land, and thousands were massacred.
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The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).