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Veterans of this and past wars demand accountability from leaders that lie to us and lack the moral courage to act even when there is proof.

ith the recent economic rise of China, there are those who predict  – or fear – that China...

The demand that we “Never forget!,” the events of 9/11 is laughable. Forgetting is difficult after enduring 20 years of war propaganda.

For decades the U.S. has been murdering innocent civilians, including U.S. citizens, around the world. Now is the time for accountability.

The explosions and collapse of the towers were, to me, intimately familiar. The hijackers spoke to America in the idiom we taught them.

Retired Army colonel recalls helping relocate large numbers of people in short order from Freetown, Sierra Leone, 25 years ago.

The Taliban are in power because of a colossal mess the U.S. helped create. To combat terrorism, end these wars for vengeance and profit.

A New York City nurse who volunteered at 9/11 on how we can truly honor those who died on that day and in the years of war that followed.

In these dire times, we cannot become “adjusted” to the crimes against life waged by ravenous capitalists and their Pentagon co-conspirators.

Bombing Afghanistan was not legitimate self-defense under the U.N. Charter because Afghanistan did not attack the United States on 9/11.

VIdeo from seven years ago of author Ann Jones speaking compellingly about the war in Afghanistan and her book, They Were Soldiers.

If the generals responsible for the 20-year debacle in Afghanistan are not held accountable, there will be still worse to come.

More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed.

Col. Ann Wright and Susan Dixon ask the whistleblowers featured in Wright’s 2008 book Dissent, “Was your dissent worth the price you paid?”

A veteran who served two deployments to Afghanistan reflects on the socialist politics and practice that will be needed to stop future wars.

Activists take on the factory farming industry in a battle to save Lake Erie from being used as a giant toilet.

An interview with Winona LaDuke on the battle to stop the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline and protect sacred Indigenous sites.

An uncompromising view of the disastrous end to the U.S. invasion and 20-year occupation of Afghanistan from a military veteran of that war.

What if the Jews of the American Communist left had been willing to stand up not only to Zionist forces but to their own comrades?

Doing nothing would be infinitely better than more military interventionism in a nation you’ve already tortured for 20 years.

From opening ceremony of the Olympics, it was evident that Black women would be of central importance to the games and stories that followed.

Evo Morales warns that the U.S. is reviving Plan Condor, its 1970s and 1980s program of assassinating progressive Latin American leaders.

An upcoming film centers U.S. Empire as not only a primary contributor to climate change, but the central entity that imperils life on Earth.

Review of My Life as a Radical Lawyer, Michael Ratner’s “remarkably candid and deeply self-reflective” autobiography.

In 1962, US commanders ordered a Marine named Don Heathcote to spray chemicals in the Okinawan jungle near his base as part of a series of biological warfare tests secretly carried out by the Pentagon during the Cold War.

A record number of Palestinians are losing their homes. In 2020, 140 Palestinian families lost their homes, about double the number in 2019.

I watched in horror as Israeli soldiers [shot] one of my young relatives in the head, fatally wounding him. Islam Burnat was 16

Considering what we think “everyone has,” it’s hard to believe 60% of the world population does not have a toilet in their home.

Why don’t we just overturn the system that makes development a threat? The Red Deal proposes a full-scale assault on capitalism.

“Please tell the Americans,” says atomic bomb survivor, “they shouldn’t keep building bombs and preparing to do this to more people.”

Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale writes a deeply personal letter to his sentencing judge explaining why he took the actions he did.

It’s 3:40 a.m. in Palestine and I’m crying at the sight of the dead bodies of my beloved sisters and brothers in Jerusalem.

The Vietnamese people continue to suffer effects of Agent Orange, which the U.S. sprayed over South Vietnam, poisoning both people and land.

We call it transformative justice when we’re throwing knives and insults, reducing each other to moments of failure.

One of the earliest warnings about the precarity of a world sustained on the twin pillars of industrial consumption and industrial warfare.

Lesley Blume’s new book tells the story of John Hersey’s pathbreaking article “Hiroshima,” on the aftermath of the atomic bombings.

Besides financial recompense for 20 years of war, we should consider a commitment to dismantle the warfare systems that brought such havoc.