William Astore says the idea of putting students and teachers inside pseudo military bunkers represents a surrender to the notion of schools as potential sites of gun combat and mass death.
‘Hardening’ US Schools
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NATO & a War Foretold
Instead of exploiting this crisis to expand even further, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davie says the military alliance should suspend all new or pending membership applications until the current crisis has been resolved.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Iran Losing Info War
The repercussions of the open sectarian war sparked by the U.S. invasion of Iraq can still be felt throughout the region, says As`ad AbuKhalil, partly because of Iran’s inaction.
COVID-19: China’s Death Toll Puts US to Shame
The public health measures that have worked so well on the mainland should not be lightly dismissed, writes John Walsh.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Who Should Control Foreign Policy?
Proposing that foreign policy be subjected to democratic processes is a call, essentially, to revolution.
Chris Hedges: Fascists in Our Midst
In their ideal America, our “secular humanist” society based on science and reason will be destroyed. The Ten Commandments will form the basis of the legal system.
SCOTT RITTER: The Fantasy of Fanaticism
Despite what some “defense analysts” may be telling Western media, the longer the war continues, the more Ukrainians will die and the weaker NATO will become.
The Myth of Woodward, Bernstein & Watergate
The 50th anniversary this month of the Watergate break-in led W. Joseph Campbell to examine the persistence of a simplistic version of events that even Watergate-era principals at The Washington Post tried to refute.
American Dispatches: The Journalism of Robert Parry
A collection of the journalism of the late Robert Parry, a premier investigative journalist who founded this site in 1995, has just been published.
Caitlin Johnstone: A Nuclear State of Denial
For younger people, it’s hard to understand that the same nuclear Armageddon scenario their grandparents used to worry about is still here.