The conference goals are “nowhere near ambitious enough to tackle” the climate emergency “at the scale we need to.”
Moving toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
(Informed Comment) – Seventy-three years ago, on August 6 and August 9, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This tragic act launched an arms race in nuclear weapons, now spread to nine countries. After the first atomic blast, which killed 100,000 residents of Hiroshima immediately, the grievous […]
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Review of “The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire” by Stephen Kinzer By the final decade of the 19th century, the American project sanctified as Manifest Destiny was complete. The western boundary of the United States now stretched to the Pacific Ocean, leaving in its wake the genocide of […]
JFK Made a Forgotten Turn toward Peace before He Was Killed; We’ve Abandoned it Entirely
Fifty-five years ago President John F. Kennedy delivered a commencement address that turned traditional national security policy on its head
Why has the GOP grown the Military-Industrial Complex but slashed Human Security?
The US has the highest rate of maternal deaths of any industrial country & we are the “child poverty capital”
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