Juan Cole: The American War from Hell, 20 Years Later
The Iraq War ruined what credibility America had as a pillar of international order in the global south and gave Putin cover for his own atrocity.
Nan Levinson: Is There a World Beyond War?
Women have been at the forefront of peace actions since Lysistrata organized the women of ancient Greece to deny men sex until they ended the Peloponnesian War.
Baron Wormser: The Nightmare of Power
Over and over, I read and hear about power. The United States is a power, a great power, a super-power locked in ineluctable contests with other powers that pundits comment … Continue reading
Yahya Frederickson: Duqq
I believe only the desert
can know the aridity
of cardamom, coffee, and ginger.
Kimberly Parish Davis: Forever and Ever
…they watched television or surfed around the Internet for news about what was going on in Palestine. There had been a lot of fighting—a lot of bombed out buildings. One website told about the attack at the School where Hanna’s little brother was killed, and she was probably dealing with that while Emma was news surfing.
Tom Engelhardt: The Decline and Fall of Everything (Including Me)
I find myself experiencing three versions of that ultimate story: that of my own fall; that of my country; and that of an increasingly overheating planet as a habitable place for us all.
Rebecca Gordon: Confessions of a Failed Tax Resister
I knew that the IRS wasn’t visiting me as part of an audit of my returns, since I hadn’t filed any for eight years. My partner and I were both informal tax resisters — she, ever since joining the pacifist Catholic Worker organization; and I, ever since I’d returned from Nicaragua in 1984. I’d spent six months traveling that country’s war zones as a volunteer with Witness for Peace.
Khury Petersen-Smith: Binary thinking on Russia’s war on Ukraine is a losing strategy
We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.
Tom Engelhardt: Ukraine in Perspective
A Historical Feast of Death and Destruction from the Peloponnesian Wars to Late Tomorrow Night.
Andrea Mazzarino: The Costs of (Another) War
When We Could Be Fighting Climate Change
Charlie Brice: Out of the Closet
Clothed in my cheap JC Penny’s suit, holding a bible, sitting on a container of disinfectant that smells like murder, like what they’d use to clean the war machine of … Continue reading
Norman Solomon: Bob Dylan and the Ukraine Crisis
I’ve learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It’s them we must fight
Nan Levinson: The Antiwar Movement That Wasn’t Enough
The Wars We Couldn’t End
Karen J. Greenberg: Guantánamo’s Forever Elusive Endgame
America’s Prison from Hell: Will We “Celebrate” Its 30th Anniversary?
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