Unity of Palestinians in the Diaspora Is a National Priority
One of the most obvious results of the failure of the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks has been the realization that disunity greatly weakens the Palestinian negotiating position. Not only were...
View ArticleStop the War on International Law
"The children were all asleep in bed and I was just going off to sleep...when I heard people outside saying chemical bombs were being dropped around us," said Samer, a Syrian refugee. His children...
View ArticleOccupy Founders Launch the After Party in Detroit
Originally Posted at PopularResistance.org Some of the founding members of the occupy movement are launching a new political party -- THE AFTER Party. Carl Gibson is among them. He says: "What sets The...
View ArticlePhotos of Bearded Armed Men in Ukraine Are No Smoking Gun
A number of international media outlets have recently circulated what Ukrainian government claimed to have been damning evidence of presence of Russian special forces (spetsnaz) in Eastern Ukraine. One...
View ArticleGOP: The Party of 'Anti-Ism' and Benghazi Rage
It has become more and more clear to me that today's Republican party has truly embraced being the opposition party. They seemed opposed to, well, everything that President Obama and the Democratic...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin
Tonight on PBS, I have a conversation with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, who tomorrow will make history when he signs a bill that makes his state the first in the nation to require labeling of all...
View ArticleIsrael's Christian Problem
On Easter Sunday, UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Robert Serry -- a Dutch diplomat -- joined a procession to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on the hill called Golgotha in...
View ArticleThe Tea Party Is Dead! Long Live the Tea Party!
Today's article title is meant as commentary on the media's overreactions to the first big round of primary election results (announced last night), and not any sort of supportive call to arms. Just to...
View ArticleJewish Charities' Lack of Tolerance Maligns All Nonprofits
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations last week voted to reject the application for membership by J Street, a liberal organization of Jews that supports Israel but has...
View ArticleOne Pen and Six Bullets
There is a famous -- probably the most famous -- quote in relation to journalism written on a wall in Carroll Hall, the home of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of...
View ArticleAn American Retreat from Human Rights?
In an ideal world, we'd need no military, no war, and no violence. But we do not yet live in an ideal world, and even the most peace-minded among us would appreciate that there is a need for a military...
View ArticleJ Street Will Win, Without Congress
The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations' decision to ban J Street demonstrates, if there was any doubt, that the Israel lobby is nearly identical to the gun lobby. Both successfully...
View ArticleDo Obama Mamas Make Democratic Babies? A Look at Parents' Effect on Their...
How much are our politics influenced by our parents? One school of thought says we are predisposed to rebel against our parents, and we'll end up as opposing partisans screaming across the...
View ArticleBeyond Economic Inequality: Worry About Inequality of Sacrifice
Last week brought news that a reliable poll showed a majority of Americas wanted to reduce the use of military power abroad. The Wall Street Journal poll found some 47 percent of those polled wanted a...
View ArticleHillary vs. the Media: Real War? Phony War? Or Good Cause?
Is it Hillary Clinton against the media? Or is that a phony war? Key operatives around her say she hates the news media. If so, will it matter? And does she have cause? With the release of her memoir...
View ArticleThere Is No Humane Death Penalty
On a Tuesday night in 1999, Clayton Lockett and his accomplices shot 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman and raped her friend. Fifteen years later, again on a Tuesday night, the state of Oklahoma answered his...
View ArticleMothers of the Missing
Mothers of the missing. Whose hearts are placed in a vise of uncertainty. Who don't know where their children are. If they are hurt. If they are alone. Who know that their children are living in...
View ArticleThe War To End All Wars
"Peace, as we have seen, is not an order natural to mankind: it is artificial, intricate and highly volatile. All kinds of preconditions are necessary." -- Michael Howard, The Invention of Peace And...
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