The Iraqi government has announced that the campaign to take the large northern city of Mosul back from Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) has begun in earnest

A broad discussion of media, war, activism, the Mideast and more…

Change will happen only if a large portion of the population believe in, and fight for, an environmentally sound and socially just society

Old millennials like me have been active for more than a decade, engaged in the struggle. We’re smart. We’re savvy. We’ve been working for years to protect our planet and communities

If your primary interest is in doing this job correctly, you usually have to give up the access, the money and the audience

His calls for racial voter intimidation on Election Day could explode in all our faces

They intensely dislike and don’t trust the Washington establishment—which Clinton represents—and say Trump is an alternative

With men at the BRICS helm like Serra and his president Michel Temer (who is also corrupt and widely despised), so too has the bloc become damaged goods

Those who carry these passports from countries like Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia arrive at international borders only to discover they aren’t considered people

Just about one year ago, on October 16th, 2015, in Keene, New Hampshire, at a public town hall meeting attended by hundreds,…

Evangelicals, Survivalists, the Alt-Right, and Hurricane Donald

Of all the fantasies human beings entertain, the idea that we can go it alone is the most absurd and perhaps the most dangerous. We stand together, or we fall apart

It behooves those of us in the peace movement to recognize the complexities of the Syrian conflict and to listen to the voices of the millions of Syrians who desire freedom from both Islamist extremists and the Assad dictatorship

If Russia finds itself in a major escalation of hostilities in the Middle East and/or Europe, the troubles may not end there

Several recent surveys suggest that when men feel persecuted, they turn to Donald Trump for affirmation

What kind of “next system” would support the economics of sustainable and equitable cooperation?

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bombing of civilian neighborhoods

The US and EU sanctions are imposing an economic siege on Syria as a whole which may be killing more Syrians than die of illness and malnutrition in the sieges which EU and US leaders have described as war crimes

interview on the country’s current economic crisis, the recall referendum, and the future of the Bolivarian process

The embrace of his overt sexism and racism by large numbers of his followers does not augur well for the future of American politics