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War & Peace
Feminism as Counterterrorism?
The most prominent and unequivocal public articulation of an alliance between feminism and counterterrorism came at the dawn of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, when Laura Bush argued that “the fight against terrorism is a fight for the rights and dignity of women.”
Oak Ridge Activists Challenge Disarmament Advocates to Step up Their Games
Transform Now Plowshares demands that the disarmament movement puts its money where its mouth is.
Hillary Clinton in Laos, Where Our Past Lies Buried
The United States continues to give short shrift to removing unexploded bombs from Laos.
History’s Greatest Terrorist: Harry Truman
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are, arguably, the preeminent examples of terrorism in history.
Remembering Alexander Cockburn
It was fitting that writer and critic Alexander Cockburn’s funeral should include a passage from Milton. For more than 50 years, Cockburn combined polished, erudite writing with fierce political insight in the tradition of the great 17th-century English polemicist. Cockburn died July 20th in Germany at age 71, following a two-year struggle with cancer. He was buried July 28th in his beloved Petrolia, California.
Damaged Historical Sites and Stolen Antiquities Fray Syria’s Links to the Origins of Civilization
As with Iraq, Syria’s link to its past as the cradle of civilization is threatened.
Ploughshares Makes Life Hell for Oak Ridge Nuke Plant
Ploughshares shames nuke plant security.
The Term “Nuclear Security” Is a Modern-Day Koan to the Japanese
Some in Japan still covet nuclear weapons.
Destroying the Commons
Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated, mourned, or ignored is not at all clear.