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War
Dreaming Life?
How could a nation as advanced as our own allow a few devious leaders to propagandize us into a phony attack on another nation that had nothing to do …
Crying for Freedom: Palestinian Youth Stand with Presbyterian Church
Violence and killing will not bring back the boys of the next generation.
Who Violated Ukraine’s Sovereignty?
Actions in Ukraine erode guarantees of 1994 Budapest Agreement.
What They Died For
In some years of the Iraq War, more soldiers died by their own hand than in combat. They died of the war, but not in the war. What for?
What We Can Learn From Lawrence of Arabia
As fears grow of a widening war across the Middle East, fed by reports that ISIS envisions a region-wide, all controlling theocracy, we found ourselves talking about another war: …
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
A century past the Archdukeu2019s time the game of war is still a crime.
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The Slow March Back Into Iraq and Toward Disaster
Short of combat troops on the ground in significant numbers, that table on which “all options” are always kept open was visibly moved into Washington's War Room of the …
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It’s the Oil, Stupid! Insurgency and War on a Sea of Oil
Events in Iraq are headline news everywhere, and once again, there is no mention of the issue that underlies much of the violence: control of Iraqi oil.
Sectarian Monster Reawakened: Redrawing the Map of Iraq, Again
“Labeiki ya Zaynab,” chanted Iraqi Shia fighters as they swayed, dancing with their rifles before TV news cameras in Baghdad on June 13. They were apparently getting ready for …
Accountability for the War in Iraq
The current level of violence in Iraq has a single root: the destabilizing act in 2003 of illegally invading and then occupying Iraq ordered by the George W. Bush …