Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded "With God on Our Side." You probably haven’t heard it on the radio for a very long time, if ever, but right now you could listen to it as his most evergreen of topical songs: I've learned to hate the Russians All...
US to Russia: Do as We Say, Not as We Do
Hidden in plain sight, the extreme hypocrisy of the U.S. position on NATO and Ukraine cries out for journalistic coverage and open debate in the USA’s major media outlets. But those outlets, with rare exceptions, have gone into virtually Orwellian mode, only allowing...
The Pentagon’s 20-Year Killing Spree Has Always Treated Civilians as Expendable
Top U.S. officials want us to believe that the Pentagon carefully spares civilian lives while making war overseas. The notion is pleasant. And with high-tech killing far from home, the physical and psychological distances have made it even easier to believe recent...
Current Dispute Over ICBMs Is a Quarrel Over How To Fine-Tune the Doomsday Machinery
Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of what Martin Luther King Jr. called "the madness of militarism." If you’d rather not think about them, that’s understandable. But such a coping strategy has limited value. And those who are making vast profits from...
To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles Eliminate Them
Reprinted from The Nation with permission from the authors. The single best option for reducing the risk of nuclear war is hidden in plain sight. News outlets don’t mention it. Pundits ignore it. Even progressive and peace-oriented members of Congress tiptoe around...
Stop Calling the Military Budget a ‘Defense’ Budget
It’s bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a "defense" budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the same is an indication of how deeply the mindsets of the nation’s...
Biden’s Revenge: Fueling ‘Madness of Militarism’ in Afghanistan
Joe Biden provided a stirring soundbite days ago when he spoke from the White House just after suicide bombers killed 13 U.S. troops and 170 Afghans at a Kabul airport: "To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this:...
Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices and Targets Journalists
Israel’s missile attack on media offices in Gaza City last weekend was successful. A gratifying response came quickly from the head of The Associated Press, which had a bureau in the building for 15 years: "The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza...
Reporting from Around the World, Reese Erlich Was a Beacon of Independent Journalism
When Reese Erlich died in early April, we lost a global reporter who led by example. During five decades as a progressive journalist, Reese created and traveled an independent path while avoiding the comfortable ruts dug by corporate media. When people in the United...
Contrary to What Biden Said, US Warfare in Afghanistan Is Set To Continue
When I met a seven-year-old girl named Guljumma at a refugee camp in Kabul a dozen years ago, she told me that bombs fell early one morning while she slept at home in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Valley. With a soft, matter-of-fact voice, Guljumma described what...


