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A Time for Peace in Europe and Asia

A Time for Peace in Europe and Asia

Photo by Sunguk Kim The US has a long history of not knowing how to end or peacefully resolve vexing international crises and conflicts with less powerful nations.  A triumphalist attitude in the national character is partly to blame, but in part, at least, it is also...

Robert Gates: Four Decades of Truckling

Robert Gates: Four Decades of Truckling

Photograph Source: Defense Dept. photo by Helene C. Stikkel – Public Domain Former CIA director Robert M. Gates was on “Face the Nation” last month and demonstrated that there has never been a better truckler in the federal bureaucracy over the past four decades. ...

America’s Off-Shore Concentration Camps

America’s Off-Shore Concentration Camps

Photograph Source: Casa Presidencial – CC0 Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens,...

America’s Off-Shore Concentration Camps

America’s Off-Shore Concentration Camps

Photograph Source: Casa Presidencial – CC0 Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens,...

To the Marines in LA

To the Marines in LA

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I wonder what lance corporal Ricardo Sanchez thinks about Jaime Dominguez staring at him from across the line, what staff sergeant Renee Rousseau thinks about Jean Duvalier leaning up against that building, what private Winston Chang,...

Occupied LA: Don’t Riot — Boycott and Shun

Occupied LA: Don’t Riot — Boycott and Shun

Photograph Source: U.S. Northern Command – Public Domain US president Donald Trump, Axios reports, “is edging closer than ever to invoking the Insurrection Act, driven by a vision of executive power free from the guardrails, governors and generals who stifled him in...

When the Starved Become the Starvers: A Jewish Voice on Gaza

When the Starved Become the Starvers: A Jewish Voice on Gaza

Image by Emad El Byed. The photographs are unbearable. Hollow-eyed children staring into cameras, their faces etched with a hunger that reaches beyond the physical. Families huddled in makeshift shelters, their possessions reduced to what they can carry. These images...

Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid

Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid

Image by Michael Schofield. In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own version. We might summarize the entire...

The Unbearable Familiarity of Force in Los Angeles

The Unbearable Familiarity of Force in Los Angeles

Image by Ted Griswold. I’ve seen this story before. The images coming out of Los Angeles—militarized streets, protesters met with force, another round of justifications for escalation—hit me with the dull weight of déjà vu. It’s not that I’m shocked. It’s that I...