Exclusive: President Obama said that just because the U.S. military is “the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail” a wise observation but he then confused his foreign policy speech by pandering to neocon narratives on crises in Ukraine and elsewhere,…
Category: Human Rights
One More Casualty of US Wars
Pope Francis Prays at Two Israeli Walls
NYT’s One-Sided Ukraine Narrative
Can Obama Speak Strongly for Peace?
Doubting Obama’s Resolve to Do Right
WPost Seeks US-Patrolled ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria
America’s Death-Penalty Fellow Travelers
An inconvenient truth about America’s use of capital punishment is that it puts the U.S. in company with unappealing authoritarian states, like China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, while creating a divide from modern democratic societies in Europe and the Americas, notes ex-CIA…
The Proud Message of Utah Phillips
It is often forgotten that the path to the Great American Middle Class was forged in large part by labor activists and social reformers during the first six decades of the last century, a struggle that left behind a proud…