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Biden’s Nuclear Weapons Commitments: Dangerous Continuities

September 21, 2021 Joseph Gerson

Originally published in Common Dreams by Joseph Gerson In the dangerous Trump era, the Pentagon pronounced that “There is no higher priority for national defense” than to “replace [the country’s] strategic nuclear triad and sustain the warheads it carries.” The estimated cost for upgrading the […]

Climate Change Cooperation Cannot be an “Oasis” in U.S.-China Relations

September 15, 2021 Michael Klare

by Michael Klare President Biden’s special envoy on climate change, former Secretary of State John Kerry, traveled to Tianjin, China on August. 31 and Sept. 1 to meet with Chinese officials on joint efforts to slow the pace of global warming. While in Tianjin, Kerry […]

9/11 and “just war”

September 9, 2021 Kathie Malley-Morrison

by Kathie Malley-Morrison As the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. approaches, we suggest that you review the principles of just war described here by Dr. Michael Corgan. Then consider: Can the extremists who made the attacks in 2001 justify them based on just war […]

The Violence of US Information Operations

September 8, 2021 Ross Caputi

by Ross Caputi I began studying the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq shortly after my unit’s deployment to Anbar Province ended and I was discharged from the US Marine Corps. I was an infantry soldier during the second siege of Fallujah in November of […]

A Brief History of Tomorrow

September 1, 2021 Stefan Schindler

by Stefan Schindler If today’s children and grandchildren are lucky, smart and diligent enough not to live in a dystopian future, their history books will highlight the Second World War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, America’s Indochina Holocaust, and 9/11 as four events which could have, […]

President Reagan meeting with Afghan Mujahedeen in the Oval Office, Feb 2, 1983. Reagan Library/ Michael Evans photo

Afghanistan: Farewell to Arms, Predator Drones, Night Raids…?

August 31, 2021 George Capaccio

by George Capaccio It is right that the Western troops are finally leaving our country — they should have done so much earlier. We cannot have a serious peace process as long as the Americans are in Afghanistan. We must build our country with our […]

Fukushima: A Lasting Tragedy

August 31, 2021 Patricia Hynes

Tens of years on, the United States, the largest owner of nuclear power plants, still promotes nuclear power as “safe and clean energy.” by H. Patricia Hynes Then In 2011 the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated northeast Japan, taking the lives of […]