War Is A Crime

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I live in New York City and, yes, you can’t leave your apartment for a walk on its streets (and I walk them miles a day) and not pass homeless, sometimes visibly disturbed (or unnerved) people standing, sitting, or lying on the sidewalks, sometimes even with signs suggesting their desperation and asking for any small sum of money that those passing them might care to give read more

This was what the President of the United States initially lied:

“Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere. The read more

The European Commission, far from eager to restore the non-Orwellian name to departments of war — long since rebranded as departments of “defense” — is pushing to get deadly weapons categorized as especially ethical “investments” meeting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. Specifically, the tools of war, according to the European Commission, advance the cause of peace.

Those who buy most seriously into the war-makes-peace propaganda have reservations read more

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Hey, wouldn’t you know it? The Bible, it turns out, is a deal — a big deal, as it happens! Before I get into the details, let me just put down this distinctly biblical figure: $1,306,035. And get this! Donald Trump read more

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A Potentially World-Ending President (Though Who Even Notices?) By Tom Engelhardt

Imagine for a moment a nuclear weapon exploding over… well, you name it: Pakistan, India or, for that matter, Ukraine, Russia, or the United States.  I guarantee you one thing: the news headlines would be (and I use the word advisedly) explosive for days (weeks, months?) on end, assuming of course that any media was left to cover it.  And yet, here’s the strange thing: read more

According to a September 3, 2025 article in the Guardian, a leading British newspaper, during June and August U.S. immigration authorities deported approximately 80 Russian asylum seekers, shackled and handcuffed, to Egypt.  Upon arrival, they were forced by Egyptian and Russian authorities onto ICE planes heading for Moscow, where they were immediately turned over to the FSB (the dreaded Russian Federal Security Service).

Among these asylum seekers was Andrei Vovchenko, a former Russian soldier read more

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Honestly, can you believe it? Only a couple of weeks after Israeli forces targeted and killed four Al Jazeera journalists in a tent outside al-Shifa Hospital read more

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Whether you’re thinking about war, climate change, or Donald Trump, we distinctly seem to be in a world going to hell in a proverbial handbasket — or do I mean an e-basket or, for that matter, could it be a Trump and Putin basket? In such a world, if you want to do anything to try to reset the human agenda, or at least protest where it’s taking us (as I know all too well read more

I recently published an article called “The Case Against a Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide,” not because I like either of the two choices on the usual, supposedly exhaustive list of options (lie back and take it, or kill-kill-kill) but because I think there is another way — or thousands of varieties of another way. That is, the options for nonviolent, strategic, read more