War & Peace

Colonel Manners (ret.) answers letters from Americans puzzled by the etiquette, manners and language of the arcane national security world of Washington.

The Pentagon has spent the last two decades plowing hundreds of millions of tax dollars into military bases in Italy, turning the country into an increasingly important center for …

Shahzad Akbar says the State Department is delaying his visa so he won't be able to travel to a congressional hearing.

Will the US still be meddling in Afghanistan 30 years from now? If history is any guide, the answer is yes.

David Swanson reminds me to look to humanity's incredible achievements in resisting war, in choosing the alternatives which we have yet to show our full power to realize.

This video exposes the privatizers and profiteers selling out our democracy.

On Tuesday, President Obama addressed the United Nations about Syria and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.

While Iran's new president has called for serious and substantive negotiations with the West over his country's nuclear program that would ease tensions, and an open letter to President …

A bill that would require more transparency and evaluation of security and all foreign aid programs was shot down by the Obama Administration.

Will President Obama dare meet with Iran's newly elected, pragmatic, pro-diplomacy President Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations Tuesday?