War & Peace

Heightening Risk of Accidental Nuclear War, Russia Follows Trump's Lead and Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty

An inflatable nuclear missile balloon stands at the ready before Global Zero's rally to eliminate nuclear weapons begins in McPherson Square on April 1, 2016 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

'Famine Not Seen in 40 Years': UN Warns Pompeo Decision in Yemen Could Lead to Hundreds of Thousands—If Not Millions—Dead

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

"It literally is going to be a death sentence," said the World Food Programme chief about the U.S. Secretary of State's decision to label the Houthis a terrorist organization.

Prominent Rights Group Says Israeli Rule Must Finally Be Seen 'For What It Is: Apartheid'

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

A Palestinian boy sits on a chair with a national flag as Israeli authorities demolish a school site in the village of Yatta, south of the West Bank city of Hebron on July 11, 2018. (Photo: Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images)

"This sobering look at reality need not lead to despair, but quite the opposite...

'Going Back to the Cheney Playbook': Fears of War Grow as Pompeo Plans to Accuse Iran of Ties to Al Qaeda

Jake Johnson, staff writer

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a media briefing on November 10, 2020 at the State Department in Washington, D.C.

"I wouldn't put it past these lunatics to be plotting something evil at the...

'Despicable': Outgoing Trump Administration to Designate Cuba a 'State Sponsor of Terrorism'

'Wanton Cruelty': Pompeo to Declare Houthis a Terrorist Group, Sparking Fears of Worsening Famine in Yemen

If Pelosi Is This Worried About 'Unhinged' Trump With Nukes, Say Critics, 'Impeach and Remove Him Immediately'

'No More Excuses': With Senate Majority Reclaimed, Progressives Demand Bold Agenda From Biden

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Targeting Lawyers Supporting ICC Afghan War Crimes Probe

Australian Labor Party Urges US to Drop Charges Against Assange

'His Biggest—And Likely Most Disastrous—Stunt Yet'? Experts Warn a Desperate Trump May Attack Iran

In Potential Final Protest Targeting UN, Trump Administration—Joined by Just Israel—Votes Against 2021 Budget

Iran's Top Diplomat Warns Trump Plotting to 'Fabricate Pretext for War' as US Flies B-52s Over Persian Gulf

Lame-Duck Trump's "Middle East Arms Bonanza" Continues With Approval of $290 Million Sale to Saudi Regime

Faced With Concurrent Crises, UNICEF Warns Millions of Children Threatened by 'Looming Famine'

UN Experts Condemn Trump's Pardon of Blackwater Contractors as 'Affront to Justice'

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In the DOJ's first on-camera response to the Capitol riot, Acting A.G. Jeffrey Rosen vowed "no tolerance whatsoever" for any further violence from "wrongdoers" - a move, many observed, that would have been far more reassuring if it hadn't come a week late, at midnight, on YouTube, from a weird guy with pandemic hair who blinked too much while seeming to try to sell us a can opener in a badly filmed hostage video from the 1970s. The consensus: "He inspires absolutely no confidence. Like, at all."