America’s Bloated Military Budget And “Endless Wars”
By Bruce Altschuler Photos: Wikimedia Commons After the 2024 election, the White House website described what it called Donald \Trump’s “mandate,” beginning with “putting a stop to endless…
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“We Must Love One Another Or Die”: Iran And The Illusions Of War
By Winslow Myers Photos: Wikimedia Commons For whatever reason, our president has been sucked deeply into just the variety of foreign entanglement that he campaigned against. While he…
Trump’s War With Iran That Americans Do Not Want
By Sophia Gonzalez Photos: Wikimedia Commons I keep coming back to one basic question: Who is this war actually for? It does not feel like it is for…
Rethinking Policy Toward Venezuela–Before It Becomes ‘Another Iraq’
By Sophia Gonzalez Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons A president being taken into custody by foreign special operations forces is the kind of news that lands with a thud.…
How Can America Canonize The Torturing Warmonger Dick Cheney?
By Jared O. Bell Photos: Wikimedia Commons My 91-year-old grandmother has a litany of wise sayings, but one in particular always stayed with me. A few times after…
Dangerous “Weaponized Nostalgia” In America Is Being Used To Whitewash Uncomfortable Truths
By Derek Royden\PeaceVoice Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube Screenshots “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. The last…
What Many US Corporate Media Hide About Hong Kong Crisis
Photo: Voice of America -- Public Domain The protests in Hong Kong have been big in the news recently, but many --not all-- U.S. news media reports are…
Security Council: U.S. Supports Violent Groups As Venezuela Seeks Internal Dialogue
Ambassador Rafael Ramírez Carreño Security Council meeting on Venezuela First of all, I would like to express our strongest repudiation to the failed attempt of the United States…
With Questions About His Legitimacy, Trump Fires Salvo at Omabacare
Trump -- with 2.8 million less votes, hardly a mandateThe first few days of Donald Trump’s presidency have seen what may be the beginning of the end of…
The Paris Attack: Can Any Serious Solution Ignore History?
President Francois Hollande vows "merciless" retribution Paris is burning. Not literally – not yet, anyway – but the city is living in fear of more jihadist attacks and…