New U.S. military strategy: concerns and a ray of hope
The Defense Department's new strategic guidance released this month offers a modest foothold in the struggle to reverse the ever-upward swing of U.S. military spending.
Bring them home, for Afghans' future and ours
As the world awaits President Obama's announcement about withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, an intense debate is taking place within the administration about the drawdown.
Afghanistan: Why pursue a losing strategy?
In spite of a White House declaration that "progress" is being made in Afghanistan, by virtually any measure the war has deteriorated significantly since the Obama administration surged troops into Kandahar and Helmand provinces.
The regional alternative to escalation in Afghanistan
More U.S. troops are being prepared for Afghanistan, but there is another alternative.
Escalating the war in Afghanistan is not the answer
President Obama will make his speech on the war in Afghanistan tonight and it will call for thousands of additional troops.
Japan peace movement: Moving toward a world without nuclear weapons
This year’s World Conference against A and H Bombs will take place in the changing international situation as represented by the U.S. Obama administration’s declaration of a “world without nuclear weapons” as a national goal of the United States.
Dueling resolutions in Congress about Honduras
While every day dramatic scenes are acted out on the streets of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and other cities in Honduras, pro- and anti-coup forces are also active in the United States, and even on Capitol Hill.
COMMENTARY A coup is a coup is a coup is a coup
The pre-Neanderthal characters who have taken control, at gunpoint, of the government of Honduras are telling us that this was not a coup d’etat, but an orderly legal proceeding against a president who had violated the constitution: A normal constitutional succession, as they are telling us.
EDITORIAL Zelaya must return as president to Honduras
The coup d’etat carried out against the legally elected president of Honduras last Sunday is meeting with worldwide resistance that is as strong as it is broad.
EDITORIAL: A welcome move
In calling for a stricter use of air strikes, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the new commander of forces in Afghanistan, took a step back from the abyss. In coming to grips with the harsh reality that too many civilians were being killed, McChrystal decided to limit air strikes only to prevent American and coalition troops from being “overrun.” This is a long-delayed, yet welcome step.
