With the upcoming election and the daily routine of life, it is all too easy to forget the recent cost of our foreign wars and the seemingly ever-present possibility of war. Moreover, all too often we forget to consider the cost of war – the tragic loss of human lives and the sorrow it leaves […]
The framework agreement the U.S. and its international partners reached with Iran that blocks Tehran’s pathways to building a nuclear bomb is barely a week old and yet the usual suspects have already denounced it as a “bad deal.” Sound Familiar? Of course, we all know how this played out in Iraq: no WMD, tens […]
Former president Jimmy Carter had an opportunity to respond to recent remarks by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) during an interview at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston to discuss his new book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. Speaking to a radio station in Phoenix, McCain used Carter’s foreign policy legacy […]
An Afghan woman has killed at least 25 Taliban militants and injured 5 in a 7-hour gun battle to avenge the murder of her son. PressTV reports that the woman, identified as Reza Gul, picked up arms after her son, a local police officer, was “shot dead before her eyes in western Farah province.” Gul […]
In March of 2013 paralyzed Iraq veteran Tomas Young reminded the world in a powerful letter about who was to blame for Iraq – Bush and Cheney – calling them war criminals and murders of both Iraqis and Americans. In a powerful clip from Democracy Now, he read from that letter that told his story […]