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“T.E. Lawrence has in some ways become the patron saint of the US Army advisory effort in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

We should create a graduated mechanism that will accompany the opening of the ground and maritime crossings with coordinated activity that will also include a significant reduction of Hamas’ military capability.

“No country and no people would live the way Gazans have been made to live ... our media rarely ever points out that these are people who have a right to live a decent, normal life, too. And they, too, must think, ‘What can we do to put an end to this?’”

We must approach other churches and we must engage in massive rebellion against the repression. Freedom is not freely given and it takes effort. Time to act is now.

Since the start of his presidency, Barack Obama has been clear that one of his major goals was to secure nuclear weapons and materials, and as recently as March, at the Nuclear Security Summit in Holland, the president declared that “it is important for us not to relax but rather accelerate our efforts over the next two years.”

Across the northern tier of the U.S., pairs of missileers sit at consoles inside bomb-proof capsules 60 feet underground and linked to groups of Minuteman 3 missiles, a nuclear-armed weapon whose first generation President John F. Kennedy dubbed an "Ace in the Hole."

Protests in response to Israel’s assault on Gaza have drawn hundreds—and in some cases thousands—around the world.

As Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip claimed more Palestinian lives, Haim Bresheeth, a film scholar at SOAS, University of London, helped initiate an open letter to Israeli academics urging them to condemn the slaughter.

The conference will take place in Vienna on Dec. 8-9, 2014. The Vienna meeting will seek to build on the momentum already established by the conferences held in Oslo in March 2013 and in Nayarit, Mexico, in February 2014.

With our future on the line and the whole world watching, we’ll take a stand to bend the course of history Sept. 21 in New York City.

In just 15 minutes, John Oliver perfectly summed up the utter absurdity of America's attitude toward income inequality.

The government is projected to spend $570 billion on nukes over the next decade. Maintaining an arsenal of over 5,000 nuclear weapons just makes no sense.

A major cause of current tensions in the East and South China seas are two documents that most Americans have either forgotten about or don’t know exist.

One might assume that the statements issued by the "Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea" would be full of diplomatic language, urging an end to the war that officially is still ongoing between North and South Korea. But given the Committee’s place as a communications arm of the North Korean government, that’s not the case.