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How Former Ambassador Jack Matlock Corrects the Record on American Foreign Policy How Former Ambassador Jack Matlock Corrects the Record on American Foreign Policy
Matlock, now 95 years old, offers a classic example of why our leaders would benefit greatly from more wisdom and less intelligence.
Mar 1, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Letters From the February 2024 Issue Letters From the February 2024 Issue
Modern midwifery… Idle laws…
Feb 20, 2024 / Letters / Our Readers
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The Nuclear Arms Race Never Ended The Nuclear Arms Race Never Ended
What passes for debate on Capitol Hill is routinely an exercise in assessing the most cost-effective outlays to facilitate Armageddon, not how to prevent it.
Feb 13, 2024 / Norman Solomon
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Surviving an Era of Pervasive Nuclear Instability Surviving an Era of Pervasive Nuclear Instability
A call for grassroots activism.
Feb 12, 2024 / Michael T. Klare
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Unexploded Ordnance in Laos Continues to Maim and Kill People Unexploded Ordnance in Laos Continues to Maim and Kill People
The USA dropped over 266 million bombs in Laos from 1964 to 1973. Over 80 million failed to explode and continue to kill and maim people to this day. Photos taken at the Cooperativ...
Feb 7, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
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A Second Trump Term Will Bring an End to the American Century A Second Trump Term Will Bring an End to the American Century
Another four years of Trump's "America first" diplomacy will destroy the country's already declining global power.
Jan 18, 2024 / Alfred McCoy
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Why Is Biden Risking a New Regional War in the Middle East? Why Is Biden Risking a New Regional War in the Middle East?
The president’s foreign policy is mired in a deeply retrograde and one-sided view of Israel.
Jan 5, 2024 / Jeet Heer
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The Pentagon’s Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All The Pentagon’s Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All
While experts warn about the risk of human extinction, the Department of Defense plows full speed ahead.
Dec 6, 2023 / Michael T. Klare
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The Looming Threat of Israel’s Nuclear Option The Looming Threat of Israel’s Nuclear Option
A cornered, nuclear-armed Benjamin Netanyahu would be the definition of a perilous situation in a war where nothing—not journalists, schools, or even hospitals—has proven off-limi...
Nov 24, 2023 / Joshua Frank
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Workers Are Getting Paid to Do Nothing at Los Alamos National Laboratory Workers Are Getting Paid to Do Nothing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
The nuclear weapons complex is so mismanaged that employees are collecting full salaries to play chess and catnap.
Nov 9, 2023 / Feature / Alicia Inez Guzmán