by Noam Chomsky | Aug 25, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace
Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany. Most of the world apparently shares the assessment of the U.S....
by Russ Wellen | Aug 13, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace
Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and South Sudan are, arguably, the most strife-torn states in the world, but Pakistan is considered by many to be the most volatile, a powder keg of a state poised to blow sky high. To review: it has an ever-expanding nuclear weapons program and...
by Adil E. Shamoo | Aug 13, 2015 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
The atrocities of ISIS become more shocking every day. In June, the Iraqis exhumed nearly 600 bodies of Shia recruits in Tikrit, an important Sunni Triangle city north of Baghdad. ISIS appears to have executed as many as 1,700 Iraqis and buried them in mass graves....
by Phyllis Bennis, Kevin Martin | Aug 10, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace
Members of Congress are fleeing Washington’s steam bath for their August recess, making this a key time for constituents to raise their voices on crucial issues. Right now, the biggest thing lawmakers must decide is whether they’ll join the 54 percent of voters who...
by Benjamin Tua | Aug 8, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace
The profound changes occurring in the Middle East have led to exaggerated estimates of a decline of U.S. influence in the Middle East. There is a sense that the U.S. ability to “call the shots” has been diminished, and concern that the United States is likely to...
