When the corporate rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes, it leaves us more vulnerable to attack.
Low Tax Rates for the Rich Harm Not Only the Economy, But Defense
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Georgia: NATO Membership in Exchange for Use as a Base for War With Iran?
New hospitals and air bases built in Georgia have led to speculation they’re to support U.S. attack on Iran.
Using Drones for Human Rights Creates More Problems Than It Solves
Issues of territorial sovereignty aside, using drones for human rights surveillance in Syria would never be approved by Russia and China in the UN.
Honduras: While Corruption and Repression Mushroom, Justice Rots on the Vine
The United States deserves some of the blame for the human-rights disaster that Honduras has become.
Nuclear Pit Boondoggle at Los Alamos Temporarily Scuttled
The postponement of the new plutonium facility at Los Alamos deals a blow to both the U.S. nuclear-weapons program and boondoggles in general.
Angelina Jolie Makes Her Own “Hotel Rwanda” About Bosnia
Complicated historic grievances between groups or inconvenient timing are no justification to fail to act against genocide.
Flow of Jihadists From Syria to Iraq Reversed
Jihadists once flowed from Syria to Iraq. Now the favor is being returned.
Rolling Out the Red Carpet for the Second Coming With Nuclear War
To some evangelicals and fundamentalists, a nuclear holocaust may be God’s will.
Lady Gaga Unwittingly Serves the Cause of Arms Control
Rep. Edward Markey is calling for deep cuts to the entire nuclear-weapons triad: missiles, aircraft, and submarines.
Sequential Drone Attacks Double the Brutality
The United States attacks rescuers of its own drone attacks as well as mourners at funerals of their victims.