Biden administration advances $1 billion arms sale to Israel amid ongoing Gaza conflict
As the U.S. prepares to ship another billion dollars’ worth of arms to Israel, progressive voices question the alignment with international humanitarian standards and the potential impacts on Palestinian civilian areas.
Who’s Winning This Escalating Geopolitical Struggle Between the U.S. and Russia?
Russia and the U.S. have always been confrontational with one another, but lately the relationship has been very dangerous. These two powerful nations need to find a way to coexist.
To hell and back
It is time to set in motion policies that would uplift veterans instead of pouring yet more staggering sums into a military that’s only sent so many of us to hell and back in this century?
Recalling the hundreds of thousands of civilian victims of America’s endless ‘war on terror’
It’s time we as a nation gave some thought to and did some penance for all those civilian deaths and combatant deaths as we remember 9-11.
War forever, everywhere
Unexploded ordnance and the weaponry we leave behind.
Threatening military intervention in Venezuela during a pandemic?
President Trump has no business deploying U.S. military assets against Venezuela, a country that in no shape or form represents a threat to the security of the United States, especially not now when a pandemic is raging around the world and in our own country.
AI Goes to War
Will the Pentagon's techno-fantasies pave the way for war with China?
President Hillary Clinton’s Middle East Policy: Interventions, Wars, More of Same
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will bring substantial foreign policy expertise to the thorny issues happening around the world. But will she get the U.S. heavily involved in the region again?
How Jewish nonviolence can help guide the path forward on Israel-Palestine
As a rabbi committed to the practice of Jewish nonviolence, I know a long road of reparative action stretches before us. But it’s the only way.
Where are the tears?
We implore the President, political leaders in the US, world leaders, and all people not just to value the lives of people killed in Israel, but also the innocent Palestinians killed by Israeli policy since 1948 in Gaza.