by Conn Hallinan | Jun 17, 2020 | Redev, War & Peace
If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to re-start nuclear tests, it will complete the unraveling of more than 50 years of arms control agreements, taking the world back to the days when school children practiced “duck and cover,” and people built...
by John Feffer | Jun 10, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
A child exposing the nakedness of the emperor by speaking truth to power? Not these days. More than half of the United States — not just liberals and the left but also the mainstream media and some Republicans — has been shouting at Emperor Trump for months on end...
by John Feffer | Apr 1, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Health, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
During World War I, soldiers all along the Western front held a series of informal truces in December 1914 to commemorate Christmas. It was early in the war, and opposition had not yet hardened into implacable enmity. The military command, caught by surprise, could...
by Khury Petersen-Smith | Mar 6, 2020 | Redev, War & Peace
There was this moment during the State of the Union Address earlier this year that I can’t stop thinking about. When President Trump spoke to army wife Amy Wiliams during his speech and told her he’d arranged her husband’s return home from Afghanistan as a “special...
by John Feffer | Feb 19, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Energy, Environment, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
The next presidential election will not likely hinge on foreign policy. Americans will go to the polls in November to express their fervent support, or disgust, for Donald Trump. The candidates’ positions on the issues — on any issues — matter only to a dwindling...
