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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Numa’s arbiters of peace Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Scorn rapine and violence and the profits accruing from war Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Women’s plea for peace ==== Dionysius of HalicarnassusRoman AntiquitiesTranslated by Earnest Cary They ravaged their farms in … … Continue reading →

The elites’ absurd Davos crusade: Destroy freedom to save humanity James Bovard Who would have guessed freedom of speech would become the biggest barrier to saving humanity? Luckily, a fix is pending from the billionaires, political poohbahs and other weasels attending this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. WEF has two big goals this […]

Originally appeared at TomDispatch: How strange to be living through it a second time, however different the form. I’m thinking, of course, about a devastating set of totally unexpected attacks on one’s homeland. On September 11, 2001, it was the World Trade Center in downtown New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., with … Continue reading "Sunsetting the War on Terror – Or Not"

After already launching multiple missile strikes on Yemen, without waiting to see if the action had sufficient deterrent effect, and despite 24 hours of near total inactivity by the Houthi, the United States launched a second round of strikes the following day. After launching strikes from air, sea and submarine on January 11, the United … Continue reading "US Strikes on Yemen are Layered in Hypocrisy"

Reprinted from Common Dreams. When it comes to foreign policy, the president of the United States has two essential roles. The first is to rein in the military-industrial complex, or MIC, which is always pushing for war. The second is to rein in U.S. allies that expect the U.S. to go to war on their … Continue reading "Why Joe Biden Is a Foreign Policy Failure"

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Bertrand Russell: Selections on war and peace ==== Bertrand RussellPolitical Ideals A man does right, as a rule, to have his thoughts more occupied with the interests of his own nation than with those of others, because his actions are … … Continue reading →

Thousands of miles separate Uganda and Congo from the Gaza Strip, but these places are connected to Palestine in ways that traditional geopolitical analyses would fail to explain. On January 3, it was revealed that the far-right Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu is actively discussing proposals to expel millions of Palestinians to African countries, in … Continue reading "From Gaza to Congo: On Zionism and the Unlearned History of Genocide"

When Barack Obama implemented George W. Bush’s agreement to withdraw all U.S. military forces from Iraq by the end of 2011, most Americans likely concluded that Washington’s disastrous intervention had come to an end.  However, the administration reintroduced combat forces to Iraq and sent troops to Syria when ISIS launched its military offensive in 2013-2014 … Continue reading "Washington’s Continuing Contempt for Its Iraqi ‘Ally’"

Last week’s US/​British strike against Houthi military targets in Yemen escalated operations to protect shipping in the Red Sea from an expensive and wasteful defensive project to an offensive that could draw the United States further into the Yemeni civil war. Even Saudi Arabia, which has been fighting the Houthis for years with support from … Continue reading "The US Military Role in the Red Sea – Now Turning Offensive – Is a Bad Deal"

Another 28 were wounded.
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