The United Nations body responsible for monitoring and recording human rights abuses effectively abandoned the people of Yemen last week. In a 21-18 vote with seven abstentions, the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) refused to extend the mandate of an independent investigation into war crimes committed by all sides in Yemen. Since its establishment in … Continue reading "Abandoning Yemen to War Criminals"
Originally posted at TomDispatch. It’s hard to imagine how I would have done my work at TomDispatch over the last decade without one crucial resource: Brown University’s Costs of War Project. After all, that website has offered a remarkable look at America’s misbegotten twenty-first-century wars. Since it was launched in 2010, it’s been a constant … Continue reading "My War on Terror, Up Close and Personal"
The military budget is going to be cut. That will cause enormous wailing and gnashing of teeth in Washington. The generals will promote fantastic disaster scenarios. The military-industrial complex will deploy more lobbyists. The Neoconservative Greek Chorus will declaim more loudly. All will insist that the international environment is more dangerous than ever.
Two people were killed, and two more were wounded.
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Women writers on peace and war Marguerite Steen: The sheer destructiveness of war made him angry ==== Marguerite SteenFrom The Sun Is My Undoing Along the waterfront, seeking the sunny patches, the bits of masonry that screened them from the wind, were […]
Ukraine is Washington’s most worrisome security client in Europe. U.S. leaders are incurring grave risks to America in support of a country that is notoriously corrupt and increasingly authoritarian. Worse, Kiev engages in abrasive conduct toward its much larger, more powerful Russian neighbor, apparently assuming that Washington has Ukraine’s back. However, Ukraine is not the … Continue reading "Georgia: Another Dangerous, Loose-Cannon US Client"
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Women writers on peace and war Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Selections on peace and war ==== Frances Ellen Harper WatkinsFrom Maceo Men to stay the floods of sorrowSweeping round each war-crushed heart;Men to say to strife and carnage –From […]
The "Lift Sanctions, Save Lives" network is lobbying Congress to do what it should have done years ago: assess the impact of economic sanctions now routinely applied to ally as well as adversary. Such a review is long overdue. Economic sanctions have become a new global battlefield.
“Debate on ‘no first use’ of nukes mushrooms in Washington,” Joe Gould reports at Defense News. “Five years after President Barack Obama turned back from declaring a ‘no first use’ as US policy for nuclear weapons,” Gould writes, “opponents say the Biden administration is considering it too, and warn that it risks alienating allies.” Is … Continue reading "‘No First Use’: An Empty Gesture That Would Cost Nothing"
