Richard Falk

Because our own tax dollars pay for 20 percent of Israel's entire military budget, the bullet or the gun used to kill Shireen could have even been purchased from U.S. weapons manufacturers with our own money.

Biden and Putin should seek a Cuban-missile-style compromise in which NATO allies agree to negotiate the security guarantees that Russia seeks and Putin, in turn, pledges to forego an invasion of Ukraine.

Israel has already long lost the main legal and moral arguments and is in the process of losing the political argument.

If Biden wins, the bipartisan consensus is reaffirmed, while if Trump somehow prevails, the bipartisan will be further weakened, and even threatened by replacing the consensus with a right-wing policy agenda.

Even in the unlikely event that the presidential election goes well procedurally, it is no time to gloat about the vindication of the American version of constitutional democracy. 

It takes a dedicated movement, not a string of moments, no matter how searing and memorable, to achieve the deep structural changes that will allow all persons of color to be treated as equal citizens with equal rights.

As with the climate crisis, the linkages between contagious disease and nuclear weapons are too evident to ignore.

We can no longer afford the occurrence of deliberate choices by representatives of leading governments that pose grave harm to the human interest in achieving humane societies and a sustainable future for the species