Experts skeptical about aerospace industry study on military spending and jobs. “Defense contractors are notoriously bad jobs creators,” said IPS Research Fellow Miriam Pemberton.
President Obama, aside from the Af/Pak surge, has a strangely decent, pragmatic and limited so-called foreign-policy doctrine.
The empty invocation of international law does nothing but reinforce our own sense of impotence in the face of international lawlessness.
PTSD and moral injury are the first steps to healing from war.
Killing civilians is hardly drones’ only crime.
The ac will impose visa bans and asset freezes on Russian human rights offenders.
In December 2010, at the end of a study abroad semester in Puebla, some students and I organized a student expression project. Hundreds of students wrote complaints or ideas for their university, state, or country. Despite discouraging looks, I posted these note cards in a busy pathway at my public university the week that the campus was celebrating the centennial of the Mexican revolution.
There’s a delay between the events on the ground that a drone is target and what a drone operator sees on the screen.
Veterans struggle to come to terms with the possible immorality of their actions in war.
For Enrique Peña Nieto, the leading candidate in Mexico’s upcoming election, the worst day of his presidential campaign was the day that sparked “#Yo soy 132” (I am number 132), a youth movement for social justice. When the candidate visited Iberoamerican University–a private, Jesuit-run college in Mexico City–last month, a crowd of young people stood up and called him “coward,” “liar,” and “assassin.”