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
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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
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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
Malala Yousafzai: Drones Fuel Terrorism
Missing Malala’s message of peace: ‘US Drones fuel terrorism.’ On October 10, Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai–who received worldwide attention after being attacked by the Taliban for her advocacy for … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: America’s Soundtrack of Hysteria
It happened so fast that, at first, I didn’t even take it in. Two Saturdays ago, a friend and I were heading into the Phillips Museum in Washington, D.C., to … Continue reading
Fascist America?
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Who Is Listening to You? By KokonutGrove As a student of American history and politics, in my lifetime I’ve witnessed a dangerous erosion of…
Who Are the “Terrorists”?
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Richard Sahn Driving us ever closer to the brink of World War III and possible nuclear annihilation is the bi-partisan, seemingly all-American political position…
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 →