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Andrea MazzarinoCommon Dreams |
After 20-plus years of waging the "War on Terror," Americans just voted to bring it to the home front
In the early 1990s, doctors in Hiroshima, Japan, discovered a stress-induced syndrome they called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or “broken heart...
Images of homes that collapsed under mudslides or falling trees, waterlogged farms, and debris-filled roads drove home (yes, home!) to me...
Count on one thing: armed conflict lasts for decades after battles end and its effects ripple thousands of miles beyond actual battlefields. This has...
Hundreds of people each year are injured or killed from weapons and explosives left over from wars.
The destruction of our world is the warfare that consumes so much of it and the reverberating violence each conflict leaves in its wake.
One thing our government doesn’t like doing is challenging the greed of health insurance companies. I can speak with some authority about holes in...
Americans, who are getting sicker, sadder, and ever more anxious, are so often unable to access necessities like healthcare because all too many...
He's coming at full speed. And it's terrifying.
An acquaintance who hails from the same New Jersey town as I do spends his free weekends crawling through the woods on his stomach as part of a...
If you're not gaming out this scenario in your head, you are doing it wrong.
We Americans have been at war now since Oct. 7, 2001. That was when our military first launched air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan in...
We need to be equal-opportunity critics and consider not only the most highly reported conflict of the moment but also the chronic ones fought,...
If former President Trump listens to his all-too-well-prepared advisers, there would be far less of a buffer of reasonable civil servants loyal to the...
Imagine an America in which Donald Trump has installed his own loyalists — and this time around they will indeed be loyal to him — in the top...