It’s impossible to understand the roots of the current Ukraine crisis over the downed airliner without understanding the past, but the past is remembered as cliché on all sides

The “Arab winter” that began last year with the US-backed military coup in Egypt, is falling fast over Gaza

The tens of thousands of Central American children streaming towards the US border are refugees from violence and economic crisis fostered by decades of wrongheaded US foreign policy

With the US and China responsible for 40 percent of global carbon emissions, the future likely turns on bilateral diplomatic progress towards the December 2015 global summit

Most environmentalists see themselves on the left of the political spectrum, so what’s the Left to do when leaders of finance capital take leading roles in confronting climate change?

Kilcullen’s recent writings leave Iraq and Afghanistan behind to concentrate on the greatest current threat he sees: how to keep malignant, violent, and irrational masses of desperate people at bay in a coming urban apocalypse

Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown, Jr. State Capitol, 1st Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 RE:  Doubling the rate of greenhouse gas reductions by…

What started as a vicious circle has begun its downward spiral

Contrary to the original spin, there seems to be no need or rationale for “saving” Baghdad from invading ISIS hordes

Former CIA director General Michael Hayden says Iraq is dead, “It’s not going to be reconstituted,” and will be replaced by three “successor states”