| 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,...
| 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,...
| 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...
| 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,...
| Apr 12, 2010 | Peace / SecurityIt’s been 20 years since President George H. W. Bush and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev declared the Cold War over. Yet the lengthy process of dismantling U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles continues to illustrate the deep chill that prevailed...
| Mar 29, 2010 | Cartoon|Peace / Security
