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Presidents...do have a duty under the Constitution to get Congress’s approval before waging war.
Presidents...do have a duty under the Constitution to get Congress’s approval before waging war.
The pace of drone strikes by the US on suspected terrorists has increased more than fourfold since Trump took office.
The pace of drone strikes by the US on suspected terrorists has increased more than fourfold since Trump took office.
 There are multiple efforts at present to strengthen and revive the peace movement in the United States, and this is a critical necessity. As we wrote several weeks ago, a crisis either manufactured or not can be used to impose greater restrictions on our civil liberties and push through unpopular policies. It is up to More
 There are multiple efforts at present to strengthen and revive the peace movement in the United States, and this is a critical necessity. As we wrote several weeks ago, a crisis either manufactured or not can be used to impose greater restrictions on our civil liberties and push through unpopular policies. It is up to More
the wisdom of the CIA’s billion-dollar-a-year fueling of the Syrian conflict is never examined, nor is the decade-and-a-half-long occupation of Afghanistan.
On 2 December 2016, the United States Congress voted a law forbidding all military co-operation between Washington and Moscow. In the space of a few years, NATO has re-activated MacCarthyism.
An ISIS cell. An undercover FBI agent. A community torn apart.
Although the public believes the hype about danger emanating from these foreign forces, it does not favor the solution it is endlessly offered by the media and the U.S. government.
There are two lessons from these chaotic events that we, too, can learn; in fact, we ignore them at our peril.
