Speaking from a hospital ward about fifty meters from where a bomb had just exploded, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder raised his voice over the…
It’s one thing to burrow beneath the ground, digging to construct a tunnel for refuge, a passage of goods, or to store…
Operation Cast Lead, an Israeli aerial assault and massacre of Gazans begun on December 27, 2008, lasted for 22 days. The Israeli…
“More and more, we see that you can’t conduct a war without war crimes. And that raises a whole other issue about whether war…
Who controls the U.S. military and decides when we go to war? The Constitution says the people via Congress have war-making powers.…
There is a refugee trail that goes from the Sahel drought region in Africa, into war-ravaged Yemen, and up through Saudi Arabia…
Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves asked to share a moment with me. She was with an Afghan…
Norman Solomon’s new book, War Made Invisible (published by The New Press) shows how the U.S. hides the human toll of its…
Kathy Kelly provides her reflections on Jeffery E. Stern’s book The Mercenary, A Story of Brotherhood & Terror in the Afghanistan War.…
A Gazan Ph.D. candidate studying in India, Mohammad Abunahel steadily refines and updates a map on the World BEYOND War website, dedicating…
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