War & Peace

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A federal court in Buenos Aires on October 23 convicted two former army officials - Jorge Olivera Rovere and Jose Menendez - to life sentences, for crimes committed during …

It is difficult to imagine how any democracy could not be corrupted when war becomes the foundation of politics.

The White Man's Burden, a phrase immortalized by English poet Rudyard Kipling as an excuse for European-American imperialism, was front and center October 29, 2009, at a RAND-sponsored discussion …

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has played the “ugly American” in Tokyo, cast in a role he should not have been given.

The Obama administration will likely drop its Supreme Court petition challenging the release of photographs showing US soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan now that lawmakers are set …

Every once in a while, a statistic just jumps out at you in a way that makes everything else you hear on a subject seem beside the point, if …

The Senate Judiciary Committee narrowly passed a bill Thursday to extend several controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the counterterrorism law hastily drafted in the aftermath of 9/11.

The main nuclear debate in the major South Asian country has not been the one between nuclear militarists and their opponents. It has been the one between two schools …

The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, along with the ongoing slaughter of Afghan civilians and raiding hospitals, are in violation of international law as well as the US Constitution.