by John Feffer | Jul 13, 2016 | Redev, War & Peace
Every era has its representative figure. The Neolithic era had the Farmer. The avatar of the Middle Ages was the Monk, bent over an illuminated manuscript. For the period before and after 1492, the Explorer captured the global imagination. During the Industrial...
by Rob Prince | Jul 1, 2016 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Cross-posted from View from the Left Bank. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the king’s me Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again. What has happened in Libya since 2011 is heartbreaking. Its denials aside,...
by Phyllis Bennis | Jun 29, 2016 | Redev, War & Peace
At least 41 people were killed in the recent bombing of Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport. The day before, suicide bombers killed five people in Qaa, a small village in Lebanon. And while the Saudi-led and U.S.-backed war in Yemen continues to rage, an ISIS affiliate claimed...
by Phyllis Bennis | Jun 8, 2016 | Human Rights, Redev
With all the discussion and debate these days about intersectionality and the need for progressives to link our movements against racism and against war, the name of Muhammad Ali belongs right up in our pantheon with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Harry Belafonte,...
by John Feffer | May 25, 2016 | Redev, War & Peace
The targeted assassination of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour last weekend wasn’t just another drone strike. First of all, it was conducted by the U.S. military, not the CIA, which has orchestrated nearly all drone strikes in Pakistan. Second, it...
