Yearly Archives: 2025

Set the groundwork for Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and torture chambers across the Middle East in the Global War on Terror In the summer of 1970, Tom Harkin, a U.S. senator from Iowa from 1985-2015,...

Called them “propagandists” and “communists trying to discredit the U.S.” Got off the plane in Vietnam;It didn't seem like war.With all I saw, I started to wonderWhat I had come there for.Oh, the Army tried...

Of course he did. And a look at the film’s funders helps to explain why. In the fall of 2017, more than 60 million people tuned into PBS to watch Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s...

This week marks the 50-year anniversary of the end of the U.S. war against the country and people of Vietnam. Americans refer to the war as the Vietnam War, but it was actually an...

For years, the global narrative has been saturated with relentless propaganda targeting former Filipino President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. He has been vilified as a monster, a tyrant and a symbol of cruelty—portrayed as a leader...

Similar to the way American conscientious objectors were treated in World War I On December 26, 2023, Tal Mitnick, then 18, entered an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) enlistment center in Tel Aviv and publicly announced...

Part I in a two-part series In December, the rapid fall of the Syrian government to Western-backed jihadists stunned the world and sparked a wide range of reactions amid the fallout. Unsurprisingly, the collective West...

April 20th marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, which killed 11 workers and spilled 134 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. For those who rely on fishing and related industries off the Gulf Coast, as well as for those who were involved in the recovery and cleanup efforts, real relief is still yet to come...

Black America has the term “Uncle Tom” for sellouts. In South America, a “vendepatria” is someone who is willing to sell their homeland to the highest bidder. Simón Bolívar, José Marti and Jan-Jak Dessalin...

Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is the inaugural Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order On April 1, former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan started his new job as the inaugural...