military

Couldn’t agree more with the Prez about the importance of teachers, but class sizes are rising and teachers being let go all over the country. The federal budget spends just 3% of [...]

About $120 Billion. Just sayin’. And some Republicans are talking about ending the war, leading to hopes of a Left-Right coalition coming together to push President Obama to accelerate U.S. [...]

Reading the Washington Post every day is one of the least favorite (self-imposed) tasks of my wonderful job. The paper used to be thought of as liberal, but that was eons ago, at this point it [...]

As a parent of two teenagers, I cannot imagine the excruciating pain of losing a child in war. Of course, this is the daily reality for far too many parents in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and far [...]

Monday is the holiday marking the birthday of The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of my fondest heroes, and I bet one of yours, too. “DDE” is President Dwight David [...]

By Judith Le Blanc   January 17 marks the 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s “military industrial complex” speech. As he left the White House, Ike warned that the synthesis of the [...]

The indefatigable Larry Wittner, national Peace Action board member, professor and author, has an essay on History News Network today with incisive analysis of the New START Senate vote, and on [...]

The inimitable Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies that is. Way more Phyllis than me (which is a very good thing!). Here is our take, including policy, political and movement [...]

A front-page article in this morning’s Washington Post paints a pretty good picture of the prospects for ratifying the New START nuclear arms reduction pact this week, but it’s not a [...]

This week, the co-chairs of the President’s Deficit Commission issued their report entitled, “Moment of Truth.” The report proposes to put the weight of the economic crisis on the backs of our [...]