08 July 2010
The war drones on
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Robert Koehler
“Complaints about civilian casualties have also stirred concern among human rights advocates.”
The problem is that a sentence like this — arguably a dead sentence, with a few quasi-facts entombed in an inert moral sensibility —...
08 July 2010
Thailand's Red Shirts struggle to survive crackdown
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- To prevent protesters unleashing another urban insurrection, new CCTV cameras will eyeball streets where 90 people died, most of them civilians, and 1,400 were injured when the military battled Red Shirts and crushed...
08 July 2010
Cluster bombs and civilian lives: efficient killing, profits and human rights
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Ramzy Baroud
Cluster bombs are in the news again, thanks to a recent report from Amnesty International.

The human rights agency has confirmed that 35 women and children were killed following the latest US attacks on an alleged al-Qaeda...
07 July 2010
Letters from Palestine
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Jim Miles
Kenneth Ring’s writing on Palestine has already received just praise, as it is another in a series of recently published works that cry from the heart of Palestine.[1] And while I have read many other books on Palestine, “Letters from...
05 July 2010
The peace movement's progress
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David Swanson
The peace movement has made significant progress in the United States since its low point of late 2008, and just about everything anyone in it has done has been a contribution. If everyone keeps doing what they're doing, and more of it,...
01 July 2010
Millennium goals revisited: noble ideas, and feel-good moments
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Ramzy Baroud
When the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were first declared, they were met with a sense of promise. A decade later, despite all the official insistence that all is on track, it is increasingly clear that this approach...

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