| Nov 5, 2014 | Peace / SecurityI have breaking news from the frontlines of the war. No, not the new war in Iraq. That really is Iraq War III for us — our nation’s third trip there in just 25 years. Maybe the third try will be the charm, though I really don’t think there’s anything...
| Nov 4, 2014 | Peace / SecurityDon’t look now, but the overbearing power of America’s military-industrial complex has probably snuck into your town. The multibillion-dollar global armament giants have discovered a hot new growth market here at home: police forces. The people of Ferguson...
| Oct 29, 2014 | Peace / SecurityThe soldiers who fought the Revolutionary War were our first veterans, the only cohort of U.S. warriors who took up arms to create rather than defend a country. If they lost, it meant treason. Having won, the nation treated them with a special reverence, right?...
| Oct 22, 2014 | Peace / SecurityPresident Barack Obama proudly signed the law that repealed the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, freeing lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans (although not trans people) to openly serve in the military four years ago. But when it comes to...
| | Peace / SecurityIn his recent meeting with President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “committed to the vision of peace for two states for two peoples.” That sounds nice. But Netanyahu has done everything possible to demonstrate that...
| Oct 21, 2014 | Peace / Security|UncategorizedHere we go again — into yet another war in a tumultuous swath of the world we still don’t comprehend. For a preview of what we’re stepping into in Iraq and Syria, let’s remember Afghanistan. In the yesteryear of the Cheney-Bush regime, the promise...
