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The Arab Uprisings in Context: An Interview With Middle East Expert Rami G. Khouri
Rami G. Khouri: I think one critical issue that has to be dealt with all across the region is really the issue of the role of the military.

America’s Syrian Jihad: An Old War in New Clothes
What began on 15, March 2011, with public demonstrations which rapidly accelerated into a national uprising, has now become an armed insurgency complete with suicide bombings - provoked by …

Syria’s “Liberated” Future: Ethnic-Religious Cleansing and Genocide
A fascinating shift has happened in the U.S. mainstream media: After a year of anti-Syria war propaganda and lies, glimmers of truth are making their way into the public's …

Tuesday, August 1945
A poem remembering Hiroshima.

The Temptations of Drone Warfare
A famous utterance attributed to General Robert E. Lee during the U.S. Civil War is, u201cIt is well that war is so terrible u2013 lest we should grow too …

The Temptations of Drone Warfare
A famous utterance attributed to General Robert E. Lee during the U.S. Civil War is, u201cIt is well that war is so terrible u2013 lest we should grow too …

Assassination Nation: From the Phoenix Program to Predator Drones
US assassination and targeted killing, with presidential approval, has been going on covertly for at least half a century.

Why Is Mali Spiraling Out of Control?
Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. What happened to make it a hotbed for terrorism, ethnic cleansing and a civil war which could destabilize the entire region?

Human Dignity: A Casualty of War
War encourages dehumanization and breeds atrocity. This, in part, is what makes the current evolution of warfare so terrifying.

Turning Towards Nonviolence: A Response to the Aurora, Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
Father John Dear: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. both insisted that we need a fundamental internal conversion from violence to nonviolence as the basis for our work …