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?
William J. Astore: Only Cold-War Fools Hit Replay on Doomsday
It’s finally time for this country to succeed in something again—something noble, something other than the perpetuation of murderous war and the horrific production of genocidal weaponry.
Karen J. Greenberg: Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
Accountability for the mistakes, miscalculations, and lawless policies of the war on terror has proven not just elusive, but inconceivable.
Nick Turse: A Forever Wall for Our Forever Wars
Americans have been killing civilians since before there was a United States.
Edison Jennings: The Cats of Rome
The cats of Rome sleep, feed, and breed
among the tumbled travertine, and slip,
tails high, across the flag draped avenues.
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies: Waking from Our Post-9/11 nightmare
Our only hope for the future is to abandon the futile quest for hegemony and instead commit to peace, cooperative diplomacy, international law, and disarmament.
