Guns

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Virginia Beach shooter killed 12 and put at least 4 others in hospital being operated on for their injuries. He shot up the municipal offices where he had been a utilities engineer until being fired recently. He had a long gun but appears to have done most of his […]

Drone Warfare

School Shootings and Drone Wars: America’s Invisible Ways of Violence

Tomdispatch

The U.S. military and CIA drones that regularly terrorize, maim, and kill civilians, are the equivalents of the disturbed shooters

Featured

15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK

Juan Cole

Revised The mass shooting in a bar in California that left 12 dead was carried out by a Vet, making it doubly tragic. The United States has never dealt with the trauma it has inflicted on a whole generation of young people by sending them to fight a fruitless and illegal war in Iraq and […]

Guns

Is NRA in Peril from Russian Criminal Conspiracy Charges?

The Conversation

The Justice Department accused a Russian advocate for firearms ownership of secretly infiltrating American electoral politics as a foreign agent

Climate Change

Don’t forget to Duck! Advice to College Graduates in the Trump Apocalypse

Tom Engelhardt

For those entering the workforce in 2018, the future looks grim

Guns

Schoolboy’s Angst over School Shootings chokes up Sarah Sanders, who offers a “Commission” (Video)

contributors

The White House press secretary appeared to become emotional when answering a question about the danger facing children in schools

Featured

Gun Epidemic: Pakistani Exchange Student killed by Santa Fe, TX, Shooter was no Safer in US than at Home

Juan Cole

Statistically, she was no more safe in the US than she was in Pakistan

Guns

Growing up with Fear of Gun Violence in America: The Weaponization of Everyday Life

contributors

By Frida Berrigan | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been swept up in a round of protests over the endless killing sprees they permit, you’d think I might have had more experience with them. As it happens, I’ve held a […]

Guns

The March for Our Lives in Pictures: Massive Crowds Mourn Victims, Condemn Complicit Politicians

contributors

By Julia Conley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org ) | – – “Who here is going to vote in the 2018 election? If you listen real close, you can hear the people in power shaking.” Taking the stage on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, high school student David Hogg offered hundreds of thousands […]