War & Peace

July 27th Isn’t Just Another Day

The Korean Armistice Agreement and the war it holds in abeyance are a “still-present-past"—and the Biden administration must support efforts for a binding peace agreement.

Ramsay Liem · Jul 26, 2021

Police and a man outside Hazrati Abu Bakr Siddique mosque

End the 'National Security' Excuse for Racial and Religious Profiling

Faiza Patel · Jul 25, 2021

Ilhan Omar Demands Answers After First Somalia Airstrike of Biden Era

Brett Wilkins · Jul 23, 2021

In Pre-Sentencing Letter, Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Says Crisis of Conscience Motivated Leak

Brett Wilkins · Jul 23, 2021

Sens. Tim Kaine and Jack Reed speak during a hearing

'A Huge Outrage': Senate Panel Approves $25 Billion Pentagon Budget Increase

Jake Johnson · Jul 23, 2021

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby speaks to the media

Sanders, Lee, and Murphy Slam Biden Administration's First Drone Strike in Somalia

"It's time to do away with questionable legal justifications claimed by one administration after the next for acts of war like this."

Jake Johnson · Jul 23, 2021

We Better Control Machines Before They Control Us

Artificial intelligence wants you (and your job).

John Feffer · Jul 22, 2021

Relatives and friends of 11-year-old Erick Altuve, a Venezuelan boy who died of cancer while waiting to receive a bone marrow transplant, attend his funeral at a cemetery in Caracas, on May 30, 2019. (Photo: Marvin Recinos/AFP via Getty Images)

UN Experts Warn US Sanctions Endangering Lives of Venezuelan Cancer Patients

The United States' attempt "to control the political agenda of Venezuela has had devastating consequences for hundreds of people undergoing treatment."

Kenny Stancil · Jul 22, 2021

Dems Urge Biden to Seize 'Watershed Moment' and Cut Nuclear Stockpile

The administration is being called on to "make bold decisions to lead us towards a future where nuclear weapons no longer threaten all humanity."

Andrea Germanos · Jul 22, 2021

Progress or War: On Islamophobia and Europe's Demographic Shifts

Islamophobia must be seen within the larger context of the toxic anti-refugee and anti-immigrant sentiments, now defining factors in shaping modern European politics.

Ramzy Baroud · Jul 21, 2021

Cuba and the US: The Difference Between Dictatorship and Tyranny

By all Western standards it can be said that Cuba is a dictatorship, but it is necessary to remember that the United States is the tyranny that created it, a brutal tyranny that has been going on for at least two hundred years.

Jorge Majfud · Jul 20, 2021

Senators Introduce Legislation to Curb Endless US Wars, Lethal Arms Sales

The measure includes a sunset of all authorizations of the use of military force including the 2001 AUMF.

Andrea Germanos · Jul 20, 2021

Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires

Afghanistan was a war of lies, sustained by the powerful U.S. and British media.

Eric Margolis · Jul 20, 2021

Migration Is Not the Crisis

What Washington could really do in Central America.

Aviva Chomsky · Jul 20, 2021

Cubans march in front of the nation's Capitol during a demonstration against the government of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana, on July 11, 2021. (Photo: Adalberto Roque/AFP via Getty Images)

Media Embellish Protests, Downplay Effects of US Sanctions in Cuba

While giving the protests in Cuba a great deal of coverage, the corporate press across the political spectrum consistently downplayed one of the primary causes of unrest: the increasingly punitive U.S. blockade.

Alan MacLeod · Jul 18, 2021

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