Europe’s Sick of U.S. Nukes

| May 10, 2010 | Peace / SecurityEurope wants the United States to remove the nuclear weapons it stockpiled across the continent during the Cold War, the Associated Press reports. “The presence of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, from a military point of view, no longer makes any...

Terrorists’ Right to Bear Arms

| May 5, 2010 | Peace / SecurityThe Huffington Post’s Dan Froomkin reports that Senators Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Susan Collins (R-ME) balked during a hearing at supporting new legislation that would prevent suspected terrorists from buying guns. Also, Froomkin noted, a “Government...

Massacres Expose another Reason to End Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

| May 3, 2010 | Peace / SecurityThe recent exposés from Iraq and Afghanistan–with their shocking images, appalling laughter, and video-game ethos–would have shocked the conscience of the nation in an earlier era. After all, when what happened at My Lai was exposed during the Vietnam War,...

Priority Check

| Apr 28, 2010 | Peace / SecurityThe War Resisters League produced a pie chart that shows how much of our tax revenue funds warfare. By the group’s calculations, the government channels 54 percent of the $2.65 trillion it spends each year on military activities. In his recent OtherWords op-ed,...

No More Torture

| Apr 27, 2010 | Peace / SecurityThe Guardian, a British newspaper, reports that former “senior officers” in the MI6–the UK’s version of the CIA–are now criticizing U.S. policies and officials for using torture. “Hindsight is easy, but if Bush had placed more...

What If We’re Not So Angry?

| Apr 14, 2010 | Peace / SecurityIt seems the more conservative you are, the more aggressive you want America to be with our nukes. If we’re angry loose cannons with an itchy finger on the button, the thinking seems to go, rogue countries will think long and hard about crossing us. Personally,...