by Paul Mutter | Feb 8, 2013 | Human Rights, War & Peace
Cross-posted from the Arabist. The Washington Post, among “several” other unnamed news outlets, has reportedly known of a US airstrip in Saudi Arabia that, aside from the apparent distinction of being the first new US base opened on Saudi soil since the...
by Conn Hallinan | Feb 6, 2013 | Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace
This is the last of five articles analyzing the key issues the Obama administration faces over the next four years. Back in the 1960s, the U.S. peace movement came up with a catchy phrase: “What if the schools got all the money they needed and the Navy had to...
by Tom Engelhardt | Jan 13, 2013 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace
Given these last weeks, who doesn’t know what an AR-15 is? Who hasn’t seen the mind-boggling stats on the way assault rifles have flooded this country, or tabulations of accumulating Newtown-style mass killings, or noted that there are barely more gas...
by Phyllis Bennis | Jan 9, 2013 | War & Peace
Cross-posted from the Nation. Chuck Hagel isn’t anyone I’d pick to be in a position of power. He’s a conservative Republican, a military guy who volunteered to fight in Vietnam. According to Forbes magazine, during Hagel’s tenure in the Senate...
by Nick Turse | Jan 8, 2013 | War & Peace
Pham To looked great for 78 years old. (At least, that’s about how old he thought he was.) His hair was thin, gray, and receding at the temples, but his eyes were lively and his physique robust — all the more remarkable given what he had lived through. I...
