The American Right and neocon activists have whipped up so much Islamophobia that this bigotry is now shaping the Republican presidential race and contributed to the arrest of a 14-year-old Texas boy who built a clock as a school project,…
Category: Human Rights
A Moral Challenge for Pope Francis
Russian Role Could Help in Syria
Obama’s Fateful Syrian Choice
Lost Lessons from a Toddler’s Death
The world’s conscience was touched by the photo of a toddler who drowned while fleeing the war in Syria — and Europe’s cohesion is threatened by the growing flood of Syrian refugees. But Western leaders won’t let go of their…
Neocons Babble Over Syria Crisis
Was Turkey Behind Syria Sarin Attack?
Solitary Confinement Under Attack
One of the cruelest aspects of American prisons is the excessive use of solitary confinement, especially in “supermax” facilities, leaving inmates without normal human contact for years and even decades, a form of cruel punishment now under challenge in the…
The Crisis of ‘Regime Change Refugees’
Are Neocons an Existential Threat?
Exclusive: Despite a record of unprecedented error, American neocons remain the dominant foreign policy force in Official Washington, demanding more “regime change” in the Middle East and a new Cold War that could heat up and end all life on the…