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Essentially burning trillions of dollars for the hyper enrichment of a handful of radical corporate state supremacists wasn’t what classical capitalism was supposed to be about.

The Assad government said its strikes in Khan Sheikhun hit a weapons depot belonging to rebel forces, a claim dismissed by the UN investigators.

Australia's military watchdog has issued an unprecedented public call for information about possible war crimes by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.

Global nuclear weapons ... are at their highest level ever. This, in spite of treaties and agreements that aim to reduce the potential for such cataclysm.

Because the same enrichment technology that produces fuel for a nuclear reactor can also produce the material for a nuclear bomb, the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons would grow significantly if every country interested in nuclear power also pursued its own enrichment capabilities.

By endorsing a McCarthyite bill that threatens to silence the growing support for the B.D.S. movement, the government would be taking away Americans’ First Amendment rights to protect Israel from nonviolent pressure to end its 50-year-old occupation of Palestinian territory and other human rights abuses.

Since 2001 the US has been at War in Afghanistan – the longest war in US history. Headlines concisely tell the story of this cruel boomeranging quagmire of human violence and misery.

As an interreligious group, IREJN takes care to undergird their event with the theological basis for climate justice and environmental concern. They do their best to represent multiple faiths throughout the day.

Mary Johnson’s family was an important part of her life, but an equally significant part was her ongoing labor, peace, civil rights and social justice activism and the relationships forged in the course of that work.

The Danes did not end the push-back from the economic elite. Class struggle remains a reality in Denmark, as it does everywhere but their story of struggle offers valuable lessons for the rest of us. Especially those of us who want to be happy.

Review of Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond ~ by Gideon Rachman

The civilized world is calling for Daw Suu to be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize and for the prize money to go to help feed the widows and orphans being created on her watch.

Americans should support the protectors of the pristine blue waters and the impacted communities of Okinawa.