Phoebe A. Cirio: 22 July — A film that helps us understand a mass killing
22 July, a film currently streaming on Netflix, depicts the events that occurred on that day in 2011, when Anders Behring Breivik began a killing rampage in Norway. Breivik turned … Continue reading
Susan Sailer: Dust, Blowing in the Wind
Into Newton’s laws of motion Boko Haram storms, rifles smoking, kidnap 276 girls, force them onto truck beds, tires raising red dust as they drive north. The girls want … Continue reading
Jeremy Corbyn: We Must Be Brave Enough to Admit the War on Terror is Simply Not Working
Our whole nation has been united in shock and grief this week as a night out at a concert ended in horrific terror and the brutal slaughter of innocent people … Continue reading
Sharon Doubiago: Jesus was a Terrorist
“The most important deficiency in the U.S. counterterrorism policy has been the failure to address the root causes of terrorism.” Philip C. Wilcox Jr., former US Ambassador at Large and … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: We All Are Islamic State
Revenge is the psychological engine of war. Victims are the blood currency. Their corpses are used to sanctify acts of indiscriminant murder. Those defined as the enemy and targeted for … Continue reading
Daniel R. Cobb: We Must End the Tyranny of the American Gun Lobby
Today, US federal law allows any adult to buy guns of all kinds, including AR15-style assault weapons, magazines, and ammunition, without any ID or background checks of any kind. These … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
We fire missiles from the sky that incinerate families huddled in their houses. They incinerate a pilot cowering in a cage. We torture hostages in our black sites and choke … Continue reading
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: Boko Haram
Nigeria, one of the richest and most prosperous countries in Africa, boasting of the most educated group of Africans on earth, the most populous, most powerful militarily, has offered little … Continue reading
Chard De Niord: The media continue to play into the terrorists’ hands
There are millions of Muslims who find the terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere reprehensible and antithetical to Islam. I heard a French Muslim, who is also a town official, … Continue reading
In the Aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, Let’s Not Forget Fraternity
Originally posted on The Contrary Perspective:
Alex Dunn. Introduction by b. traven. Alex Dunn is one of TCP‘s EU correspondents. An English ex-pat living in Luxembourg gives us a view…
Sarah Van Gelder: 10 Ways Human Rights and Democracy Won in 2014
In 2014, we saw a lot of brutality. Unarmed black men and women were killed by police, women were raped on college campuses and in military barracks, foreign nationals were … Continue reading
More on the Torture Report
Originally posted on The Contrary Perspective:
An unrepentant Dick Cheney in 2008 W.J. Astore Six years ago, Vice President Dick Cheney admitted that he had approved waterboarding as one of…
Tom Engelhardt: The Cost of Endless War
The money should stagger you. Journalist James Risen, author of Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, a revelatory new book about the scammers, counterterrorism grifters, careerist bureaucrats, torture … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Revisiting the Second Iraq War
Now that we are sinking quickly into America’s Third Iraq War, we might want to take a look at what we can learn from the second one. On September 11, … Continue reading →