Phyllis Bennis | The Nation
Way Worse Than a Dumb War: Iraq Ten Years Later
This Thursday, March 14, 2013, photo shows a general view of the crossed swords monument at the site of an Associated Press photograph taken by Karim Kadim of US soldiers taken on November 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Will Chuck Hagel's Appointment Actually Help the Anti-War Left?
President Barack Obama shakes hands with his choice for Defense Secretary, former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, center, after announcing Hagel’s nomination, Monday, January 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Israel Escalates Gaza Attack With Assassination
Palestinians help extinguish the fire after an Israeli air strike on the car of Hamas’s top commander, Ahmed Al-Jaabari, in Gaza City, November 14, 2012. Reuters/Stringer
Yesterday’s Egyptian-brokered cease-fire between Gaza and Israel collapsed today when Israel launched a major escalation. In airstrikes almost certainly involving US-made F-16 warplanes and/or US-made Apache helicopters, Israel’s air force assassinated Ahmad Jaabari, the longtime military leader of Hamas. As the Israeli airstrikes continued today, seven more Palestinians were killed and at least thirty were injured, ten of them critically.
How Sandy Laid Bare Our Globe's Inequalities
Yellow caution tape tells people not to enter Public School 15 in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. (AP Photo/Beth Harpaz)
Why Elections Matter—and Why We're Still Arguing About It
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It’s practically the eve of the election—and I’m still kind of stunned to hear from people who don’t plan to vote, who think voting doesn’t matter. A young writer, 21 years old, wrote to me the other day, after seeing an interview I did on what elections are and aren’t, and on how the candidates do and don’t differ on foreign policy. (Spoiler alert: mostly they don’t.)
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