At least 283 people were killed across Iraq in the latest violence. Several bombs were detonated in Baghdad.

"We are a peaceful nation," claimed Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson in an interview with Katie Couric late last year. Carson voiced a view that is held by many in our society. Like most people around the world, we naturally like to think of...

I see no point splitting hairs over whether Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio is the more egregious warmonger. Both love the bloody and costly U.S. empire. Both believe in American exceptionalism. (Rubio arrogantly calls for a "New American Century.") Both want to make war in...

For hundreds of years in America, women did not have the same rights as men. They – more or less – do now and for some, the final flourish of equality is seen in decisions such as the Pentagon’s 2015 choice to open up all combat jobs to females. While the military...

Daesh militants stages attacks on security forces in Ramadi.

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Who even remembers the moment in mid-February 2003, almost 13 years ago, when millions of people across this country and the planet turned out in an antiwar moment unique in history? It was aimed at stopping a conflict that had yet to...

The good news for anti-interventionists out of Iowa is that Bernie Sanders has defied the conventional wisdom and effectively delayed the coronation of Hillary Rodham Clinton. In spite of a ramped up effort to isolate the Vermont socialist from the Democratic...

At least 27 people were killed across Iraq. Falluja residents are suffering while waiting for Baghdad to attempt to recapture their town.

One day recently, the New York Times, following Donald Trump's lead, ran two articles that demonized China-although the elite newspaper did so much more subtly than the crudities of "the Donald." One article talked about how China, through its trade with and...