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Kerry's rhetorical point may give Obama an option besides ill-advised airstrikes. 

There are both practical and humanitarian reasons to oppose US airstrikes in response to the horrific chemical weapons attack.

Algerian Chronicles shows that Camus still has something to say to us—not about terrorism but economic justice.

A recent campaign against illegal migrants in Russia reveals the corruption at the heart of the issue.

Sixty years ago this week, the CIA successfully staged a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn and how a tale of American triumphalism was returned to the child’s world.

Barbie, Joe, Darth Vader and making war in children’s culture.

At ceremonies held around the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean armistice, the president sounded bellicose notes, while failing to mention national unification.

And other headlines from an upside-down history of the US military and the world.

Iraq Veterans Against the War and human rights organizations in both the US and Iraq are collecting signatures for a petition to pressure the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to hold a hearing on the human rights impacts of US wars.