by John Frederick Kaufman | Oct 4, 2017 | Redev, War & Peace
When Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was a candidate for president, he seemed uninterested in talking about foreign policy. Instead, Sanders cast himself as a progressive populist and focused almost exclusively on domestic issues, particularly speaking out against the...
by John Feffer | Sep 20, 2017 | Human Rights, Redev
They were Muslims, and they were leaving the country in droves. Their homeland, a remote corner of a multiethnic country, had become a warzone. Militants had taken up arms to fight for their rights, and the central government retaliated in force. Human rights abuses,...
by Harry Blain | Sep 18, 2017 | Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
April 2, 2013 was an unusually happy day at UN headquarters in New York. After years of pressure from civil society groups, the General Assembly adopted a new treaty establishing “the highest possible common standards” for regulating the...
by Danny Sjursen | Sep 13, 2017 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
I used to command soldiers. Over the years, lots of them actually. In Iraq, Colorado, Afghanistan, and Kansas. And I’m still fixated on a few of them, like this one private first class (PFC) in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2011. All of 18, he was short, scrawny, and...
by Maha Hilal | Sep 11, 2017 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Every year on September 11, the United States mourns the innocent lives that were lost in the terrorist attacks of 2001. Each year I remember these victims, too. But I also mourn the often forgotten victims of the never-ending wars and draconian counter-terrorism...
