by Olivia Alperstein | Apr 19, 2017 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
No one ever expected Donald Trump to be a peace-loving president. On the campaign trail, he endorsed torture, said he’d bomb the families of alleged terrorists, and spoke gleefully about the president’s power to launch nuclear weapons. But threatening war with...
by John Feffer | Apr 19, 2017 | Food & Farm, Health, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. The quote comes from Stalin. The policy comes from Donald Trump. Trump famously changed his policy on Syria after seeing photographs of a couple Syrian children killed by a chemical attack. It didn’t matter that...
by Phyllis Bennis | Apr 18, 2017 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
These are awesome days for headline writers. So many global settings, such an abundance of weapons, such a wealth of choices! On the morning of April 14, the New York Times led with “A Giant U.S. Bomb Strikes ISIS Caves in Afghanistan,” matched by...
by Jim Lobe | Apr 12, 2017 | Redev, War & Peace
After the pre-dawn cruise-missile strike against Syria’s al-Shayrat airfield, neoconservative hawks, many of whom beat the drums for war in Iraq 14 years ago, are feeling the warm spring breezes of renewal and rejuvenation. Suddenly hopeful that Donald Trump may yet...
by Rebecca Gordon | Apr 11, 2017 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney launched their forever wars — under the banner of a “Global War on Terror” — they unleashed an unholy trinity of tactics. Torture, rendition, and indefinite detention became the order of the day. After a partial...
