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Starting a War with Venezuela

As of Oct. 15, the United States had attacked five small boats off the coast of Venezuela, in international waters. Six people were killed in the most recent attack (as of this writing). The first [...] Continue Reading

Provoking a War with Venezuela?

On Sept. 15, the United States announced that another boat in international waters thousands of miles from the U.S. coast had been bombed by U.S. forces, killing three people. Daphne Eviatar, [...] Continue Reading

Ending the Delusion of Nuclear Weapons

While listening to John F. Kennedy’s July 25, 1963, radio and television address to the American people on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, I couldn’t help but think back on a time when I was only eight [...] Continue Reading

80th Commemoration of Atomic Bombings

A clear and beautiful blue sky, cicadas singing and a peaceful morning, broken by the detonation of an atomic bomb dropped high above Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another morning was [...] Continue Reading

The Catastrophe Continues

May 15 marked the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the “catastrophe” in 1948 when more than 750,000 Palestinians (80% of the population) were forcibly dispossessed from their lands and homes in what is [...] Continue Reading

The Silence of the Headlines

BY ZARINA ZABRISKY The Russian war of aggression has shattered Ukraine’s daily life. International coverage understates the scale of Russian attacks on the frontline territories and cities, said a [...] Continue Reading

Genocide Continues

In 1989, while a high school social studies teacher, I went to Palestine, and what I learned completely transformed my point of view. As a teenager in the 1960s, I had absorbed the Leon Uris Exodus [...] Continue Reading