Americans Oppose Investigating the Gaza Massacre
Most Americans would oppose any Trump Administration support for an International Criminal Court investigation into Israel’s use of lethal force against Palestinian protesters on May 14. This is because they either never heard about the massacre or received slanted...
The Brilliance of Randolph Bourne
Today is the 132nd anniversary of Randolph Bourne's birthday. Antiwar.com named its parent institute for this early 20th century antiwar activist. Read Jeff Riggenbach's biography of Bourne. [Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode "Randolph Bourne...
Tomorrow’s Terror Today
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Once upon a time, dystopian fiction was left to the novelists: Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Philip K. Dick. And once upon a time, the futuristic dreams of the military were distinctly upbeat. They were of generals...
Real Patriotism on Memorial Day Means Losing Fewer Soldiers in Meaningless Wars
Most people, when thinking of Memorial Day – if they don’t confuse it with Veterans Day – think of the start of the summer season or great sales at the stores and online. Yet the holiday is supposed to honor those who died in America’s wars. Even some of...
Questioning War Is a Civic Duty. Why Do So Few Do It?
“How do you motivate men and women to fight and die for a cause many of them don’t believe in, and whose purpose they can’t articulate?” That’s what Phil Klay, author and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, asks in an essay published this month in The Atlantic....
America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence
Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his demands would be impossible to meet. They were designed that way. Just...
21 Killed in Fresh Iraq Violence; 43 Bodies Found in Rubble
The Korea Summit: Skeptics Gloated Too Soon
President Trump’s sudden cancellation of the Singapore Summit had his enemies, left and right, ecstatically tweeting "I told you so!" In all the domains of Hate-on-Trump-landia, from the neoconservative netherworld of the Weekly Standard to the highfalutin...
Homily for the Slain
I believe this should be the last year we "celebrate" Memorial Day. Perhaps this may seem callous or uncaring especially coming from a veteran who served in war and suffered the deaths of friends and comrades, but it is exactly because of my service and my...
