Peter Certo

Peter Certo is the editorial manager of the Institute for Policy Studies, and the editor of OtherWords.org.

Op-Ed

Environment & Health

A Father’s Day Gift For Myself: Activism

My two-year-old will barely be the age I am now when the climate catastrophe comes.

By: Peter Certo ,; OtherWords

June 16, 2019

Politics & Elections

Nobody in the White House Is Part of “the Resistance”

They support cuts to billionaires’ taxes, deregulating corporations and feeding the military-industrial complex.

By: Peter Certo ,; OtherWords

September 16, 2018

Op-Ed

The Hidden Bombshell in the Comey-Trump Story

The president didn't just want the FBI to stop investigating his friend Mike Flynn. He wanted it to arrest journalists.

By: Peter Certo ,; OtherWords

May 19, 2017

Op-Ed

War & Peace

Obama’s Dumb War

The president is now poised to leave behind a Middle East quagmire much like the one he was elected to end.

By: Peter Certo ,; OtherWords

October 16, 2014

Op-Ed

Here’s Everything Wrong With the White House’s War on the Islamic State

The Obama administration's war plans in Iraq and Syria are illegal, ill-conceived, and destined to fail.

By: Peter Certo ,; ForeignPolicyinFocus

October 5, 2014

Op-Ed

War & Peace

On the Fence About Syria? Read This!

A quick reader on why military intervention in Syria is a big mistake - and what we should be advocating instead.

By: Peter Certo ,; ForeignPolicyinFocus

September 8, 2013

News Analysis

The Suffering Grasses: Remembering the Other Syria

Iara Lee's “The Suffering Grasses” beautifully captures Syrians explaining their struggle in their own words, giving a place of privilege to nonviolent activists.

By: Peter Certo ,; ForeignPolicyinFocus

August 31, 2013

News

War & Peace

Ed Rendell Investigated over Lobbying Efforts Regarding a Foreign Terrorist Organization

This post originally appeared on Right Web's Militarist Monitor. In a controversial 6-3 ruling on Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project in 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the executive’s right under the …

By: Peter Certo ,; ForeignPolicyinFocus

March 20, 2012

A Progressive-Tea Party Foreign Policy Coalition? Don’t Hold Your Breath (2)

For those of us who wearied of the “rejection of progressivism” storyline tailing the midterm election results before even the first votes were counted, a new and potentially more …

By: Peter Certo ,; ForeignPolicyinFocus|NewsAnalysis

November 9, 2010

A Progressive-Tea Party Foreign Policy Coalition? Don’t Hold Your Breath

For those of us who wearied of the “rejection of progressivism” storyline tailing the midterm election results before even the first votes were counted, a new and potentially more …

By: Peter Certo ,; ForeignPolicyinFocus|NewsAnalysis

November 7, 2010

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