Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Preparing for doomsday

A shelter-in-place mentality Is the New American normal.

Why war? Building on the legacy of Einstein, Freud and Gandhi

If we want to end war, we must halt the adult war against children as a priority.

Nuclear weapons: Barbaric tools of insecurity

Sustainable security is not created through threats and the cultivation of fear, but by building relationships, cooperating and establishing trust.

Pyrrhic victory in Mosul

If a reconciliation cannot be achieved between Iraq’s Sunni and Shia populations, it’s almost a certainty that the country will continue to be afflicted by Daesh or some successor group.

The Founding Fathers would renounce, condemn America’s endless wars

They would decry the current situation in which a succession of U.S. presidents has usurped that power, probably the greatest violation of the Constitution in the history of this nation.

The enemy of my enemy is my…?

The Saudi-American-Iranian-Russian-Qatari-Syrian conundrum.

The challenges and strengths of Palestine’s ‘orchestra’ of civil resistance

How can your way of participating in a movement confront rather than reinforce the patterns of privilege and oppression that already exist between these identity groups?
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Attempt to close Al-Jazeera is an attack on freedom of expression, UN says

The channel has become part of Qatar’s grand strategy, and asking them to close it down is like asking Switzerland to close its banks.

Sy Hersh, exposer of My Lai and Abu Ghraib, strikes again, exposing U.S. lies...

What if you write a critically important story and nobody will print it?

Tread carefully

The folly of the next Afghan “surge.”