If Nelson Mandela were alive and an active revolutionary today, would he have been targeted for extrajudicial assassination?
Mandela in the Age of Drones
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America, Genocide, and the “National Interest”
It’s time for the United States to examine how its own foreign policy promotes genocide, and take the actions necessary to curb it.
The People’s Sanctions
How Nelson Mandela and ordinary citizens from all over the world strong-armed corporations, changed U.S. foreign policy, and ended apartheid in South Africa.
Remembering Mandela in Berkeley
A tribute to Nelson Mandela from San Francisco’s East Bay, birthplace of the U.S. anti-apartheid movement.
Failure to Factor Nuclear Close-Calls Into National Security Equation Threatens Us All
One of these days the nuclear odds will no longer work in our favor.
The U.S. Cuba Embargo: Making Diplomacy Impossible
The Obama administration says it wants to improve U.S. ties with Cuba, but its own policies are preventing the country from keeping its diplomatic facilities open.
Can Marvel Comics’s Latest Superhero Strike a Blow Against Islamophobia?
Marvel may just be tapping into the Islamic market with its latest superhero, Kamala, but she can’t but help but undermine Islamophobia.
Nuclear Weapons: the Siberia of Military Assignments
We’re worried about the safety and security of everyone else’s nuclear weapons. What about ours?
COP19 Summit: Still Rich v. Poor
Once again the rich industrialized countries fail to live up to their historic responsibility for climate change.
Two Women, Catherine Ashton and Wendy Sherman, Key Shapers of Iran Deal
Catherine Ashton and Wendy Sherman navigated through the diplomatic shoals of the Iran nuclear deal.