War

Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers

What can the People of Nagasaki still Teach us about the Dangers of Nuclear War?

( Tomdispatch.com) – Landing at Nagasaki Airport last November, I joined a line of Japanese men, women, and children waiting to disembark from our plane. Most were likely returning home on this holiday weekend or arriving to visit family and friends. I wondered how many of them remembered or thought about the nuclear annihilation of […]

Green Energy

No More Wars for Oil? Wind & Solar will reduce Energy-Related Conflicts

contributors

Political power will get more decentralised and diffused

Climate Change

Climate Sabotage & Forever Wars: Is America the Most Dangerous Country in the World?

Tom Engelhardt

On Climate Change, quagmire seems like an appropriate image, as long as we keep in mind that we are the aggressors.

nuclear weapons

One Small Step by a Trump into Nuclear Armageddon

Tomdispatch

By James Carroll | – (Tomdispatch.com) – It was only an announcement, but think of it as the beginning of a journey into hell. Last week, President Donald Trump made public his decision to abrogate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), a 1987 agreement with the Soviet Union. National Security Advisor John Bolton, a Cold […]

War

All America’s Quagmires: Why We’re still at War in so Many Countries

William J. Astore

( Tomdispatch.com) – As America enters the 18th year of its war in Afghanistan and its 16th in Iraq, the war on terror continues in Yemen, Syria, and parts of Africa, including Libya,Niger, and Somalia. Meanwhile, the Trump administration threatens yet more war, this time with Iran. (And given these last years, just how do […]

nuclear weapons

Moving toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

H. Patricia Hynes

(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 […]

War

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

H. Patricia Hynes

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 […]

War

Bankrupting Ourselves to Death: How We’re Borrowing to Fight the Wars we’re Losing

Stephanie Savell

Never before has this country relied so heavily on deficit spending to pay for its conflicts