Guns

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The slaughter of 20 persons in and around a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, by a virulent white nationalist on Saturday was not just a “mass shooting.” It was a profound act of terrorism. Nor was it the action of a single person. The alleged shooter was invested in Trump’s […]

Arms Sales

The US is Flooding the World with Guns: Congress Can Stop That

Foreign Policy in Focus

By John Lindsay-Poland | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – When gun exporters and importers gather at a trade conference at the Trump Hotel in Washington later this month, they will confront mixed trends in their industry. Gun manufacturing in the United States fell sharply in the first year of the Trump presidency, by […]

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Firearms are used to Murder 11,000 /yr in US; N. Zealand Banned Semi-Automatic Guns after 50 Killed

Juan Cole

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

By Allegra Harpootlian (Tomdispatch.com) – In the wake of the February 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 students and staff members, a teacher said the school looked “like a war zone.” And to many young Americans, that’s exactly what it felt like. But this shooting […]

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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

By Brian Galle | – Washington, D.C. (The Conversation) – Editor’s note: U.S. authorities have arrested Mariia Butina, a Russian advocate for firearms ownership also known as Maria. In a criminal complaint that led to her indictment, the Justice Department accused her of secretly infiltrating American electoral politics as a foreign agent working on behalf […]

Climate Change

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

Tom Engelhardt

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Class of 2018, I’ve always been told that a joke’s a good way to launch any talk. It’s a matter of breaking the ice, though on your graduation day, with the temperature soaring into the upper eighties, that may not be the perfect image. Still, you know what I mean: an […]

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 an elementary school reporter’s question about the danger facing children in schools. Following a spate of school shootings in the US, Donald Trump this month gave his backing to the National Rifle Association.” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders chokes up at child’s question […]

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

Juan Cole

Just to note the irony that a Pakistani exchange student, Sabika Sheikh, was among the (so far) 10 persons killed in the school massacre at Santa Fe, Texas. Pakistan has seen a stark reduction in deaths from terrorism in recent years. The Global Terrorism Index for 2017 says that “Pakistan also recorded a decrease in […]