On the morning of Oct. 8, a group of US veterans who were deported to Mexico, in some cases after having fought in U.S. wars, congregated in Plaza Ochoa, Nogales, Sonora
My goal in travelling to Okinawa is to tell other people in the U.S. about that reality, of bases maintained on forcefully expropriated land
For the last week, Iāve been walking on a peace march organized by the Nipponzan Myohoji order of Buddhist monks
The U.S. military doesnāt hesitate to demand sums for continued U.S. military presence in Afghanistan which could instead be dedicated to rebuilding the country
Kabul – On October 24, two days before Eid, an opinion piece published in the elite US journal Foreign Policy extolled the fact that…
Iāll always remember a scene from my second day in Afghanistan, when 16-year-old Abdulhai asked me, āIs this your first time in…
I’ll always remember a scene from my second day in Afghanistan, when 16-year-old Abdulhai asked me a question, in English. “Is this…
After the end of World War II, a group of nations in the north Atlantic established NATO to impede Russian influence over…
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