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• 9-11-2001
  • Outed CIA covert agent Valerie Plame remembers 9/11 (Sept/October 2011)
  • Is justice revenge or peace? (May/June 2010)
  • 9/11 Five years on (Sept/October 2006)
  • The Plain Truth [9/11] (July/August 2004)
  • Film breaks records in military town (July/August 2004)
  • Clarke’s 9/11 testimony raises furor (March/April 2004)
  • "Still Flying," a patriotic slide show
  • "War is not the answer," speech delivered at a rally for peace, October 14, 2001
  • "A Widow's Plea for Nonviolence," by Amber Amundson, September 25, 2001
  • Black Tuesday (Sept/October 2001)
    
    
• Activists
  • Friends say elderly protester shoved by Buffalo police is a Catholic peace activist, not Antifa (July/August 2020)
  • Longtime activist nuns teach peace (Nov/December 2019)
  • Kings Bay Plowshares 7 face 25 years for action at U.S. nuclear submarine base (July/August 2019
  • Ten cited in peaceful demonstration at Trident nuclear submarine base (May/June 2018)
  • Concepción Picciotto, who held peace vigil outside the White House for decades, dies (Jan/February 2016)
  • Activist nun Sr. Megan Rice and two fellow anti-nuclear advocates released from prison (May/June 2015)
  • American woman captured by Islamic State was moved by suffering of Syrian people (March/April 2015)
  • 32-year anti-nuke vigil at White House resumes after break (Sept/October 2013)
  • Peace activists who breached Y-12 security barriers found guilty (May/June 2013)
  • A journey to faith and activism (May/June 2012)
  • Activist priest donates Picasso drawing to UW, Tacoma (May/June 2012)
  • Plowshares activists sentenced to 2 to 15 months in prison (March/April 2011)
  • Disarm Now Plowshares activists convicted (Jan/February 2011)
  • Activists acquitted of damage to U.S. Echelon spy center (March/April 2010)
  • Olympia Port Resistance sues Army, police over infiltration (Jan/February 2010)
  • Old warrior for peace pursues the same enemy (Sept/October 2009)
  • Activist faith stays burning (July/August 2008)
  • Where have all the protesters gone? (May/June 2007)
  • Cindy Sheehan resigns as war protest leader (May/June 2007)
  • Anti-nuke clowns sent to prison (Jan/February 2007)
  • War protester chooses suicide (Nov/December 2006)
  • Al Mangan honored as peacemaker (July/August 2006)
  • Iraq War veteran arrested at parade (July/August 2006)
  • NSA mounted massive spy op on peace group (Jan/February 2006)
  • Japanese activists visit Hanford (May/June 2005)
  • Inspiration Award (March/April 2005)
  • In Memoriam: Norb Drouhard (March/April 2005)
    
    
• Afghanistan
  • Government watchdog blasts withholding of key information on Afghanistan (Nov/December 2021)
  • President Biden is cleaning up Trump’s mess in Afghanistan (Sept/October 2021)
  • A ‘fantasy’ to think U.N. can fix Afghanistan, Guterres says (Sept/October 2021)
  • Jihadists are filling the vacuum, U.N. warns (Sept/October 2021)
  • Tanks, helicopters, artillery: see what the U.S. left behind in Afghanistan (Sept/October 2021)
  • NATO chief warns of high price if troops leave Afghanistan (Nov/December 2020)
  • Peace hasn’t broken out in Afghanistan (March/April 2020)
  • Documents reveal U.S. officials did not tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan (Jan/February 2020)
  • Most American veterans say the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were ‘not worth fighting' (July/August 2019)
  • Afghanistan war by the numbers (Jan/February 2019)
  • We must decide on a new war strategy in Afghanistan (Nov/December 2018)
  • Newest U.S. strategy in Afghanistan mirrors past plans for retreat (Sept/October 2018)
  • Afghan war ‘still in a stalemate,’ says top U.S. commander (Jan/February 2018)
  • Afghanistan: A civil war state of mind (Sept./October 2017)
  • Let’s admit the obvious: Afghanistan War is unwinnable (May/June 2017)
  • Deadly bombing in Kabul (May/June 2017)
  • The never-ending war in Afghanistan (March/April 2017)
  • Wave of political defections spells new trouble for Afghanistan (March/April 2016)
  • Human error led to deadly U.S. strike on Afghan hospital (Nov/December 2015)
  • In an Afghanistan awash in arms, a push to ban toy guns (Sept/October 2015)
  • Afghanistan has 400,000 football fields worth of opium (May/June 2015)
  • Ex-CEO fined $4.5M for defrauding U.S. aid agency (May/June 2015)
  • War in Afghanistan ends, except not at all (Jan/February 2015)
  • US-funded infrastructure in Afghanistan poised to fall apart (July/August 2014)
  • Obama charts end to Afghan war by end of 2016 (May/June 2014)
  • Why older Americans are working in Afghanistan (March/April 2014)
  • Afghanistan can’t be trusted to prevent misuse of U.S. aid (Jan/February 2014)
  • Afghanistan governance, security and U.S. policy after 2014 (Jan/February 2014)
  • Children increasingly are casualties in crossfire of Afghan-Taliban fighting (Nov/December 2013)
  • Exporting mismanagement to Afghanistan (Nov/December 2013)
  • After record opium year, Afghans plant new crop (Nov/December 2013)
  • Afghan villagers disappointed by life sentence for Bales (Sept/October 2013)
  • C.I.A. bags of cash feed corruption in Afghanistan (May/June 2013)
  • Afghan peace plan in trouble as Pakistani clerics balk (March/April 2013)
  • Relentless Afghan conflict leaves traumatized generation (Jan/February 2013)
  • Time to pack up and leave Afghanistan (Nov/December 2012)
  • War in Afghanistan claims 2,000th American life (Sept/October 2012)
  • Afghan women are agents of change (Sept/October 2012)
  • Afghan forces need reading lessons before security transfer (July/August 2012)
  • Corruption poses biggest threat to U.S. forces in Afghanistan (May/June 2012)
  • Afghan insurgency still ‘a resilient and determined enemy’ (May/June 2012)
  • NATO transition in Afghanistan (May/June 2012)
  • Truth, lies and Afghanistan: How military leaders have let us down (March/April 2012)
  • U.S. negotiations with the Taliban have failed (March/April 2012)
  • The Afghanistan-Pakistan war at the end of 2011 (Jan/February 2012)
  • Lewis-McChord soldier found guilty in war-crimes case (Nov/December 2011)
  • Wartime contracting records on fraud and waste sealed for 20 years (Nov/December 2011)
  • 10 years on, Afghanistan isn’t far from where it started (Sept/Ocober 2011)
  • Killing campaign for the hearts and minds of the people (July/August 2011)
  • U.S. soldier pleads guilty to murdering Afghans (March/April 2011)
  • Afghans protest deadly U.S. raid (May/June 2010)
  • A loss of faith in Afghanistan (Jan/February 2010)
  • Congress should require an exit strategy from Afghanistan (July/August 2009)
  • Afghanistan strategy needs overhaul (May/June 2009)
  • Fearing an Obama quagmire in Afghanistan (Jan/February 2009)
  • Pentagon’s Afghan strategy not working (Sept/October 2008)
  • Afghanistan: Losing the people, losing the war (Sept/October 2008)
  • U.S. deaths in Afghanistan signal Taliban resurgence (July/August 2008)
  • Afghanistan's civilian dead (Jan/February 2002)
    
    
• Africa
  • Children used as child soldiers in South Sudan (Sept/October 2014)
  • Muslim officials condemn abductions of girls (May/June 2014)
  • Historic verdict condemns Congolese warlord (March/April 2012)
  • Satellite project gives peace a better chance in Sudan (Jan/February 2011)
  • Sudan signs ceasefire deal with main Darfur rebels (March/April 2010)
  • Cracking down on ‘conflict minerals' (Jan/February 2010)
  • Sudan’s young endure ‘unspeakable’ abuse (July/August 2007)
  • UN warns of Darfur catastrophe (March/April 2007)
  • Darfur’s fleeting moment (May/June 2006)
    
    
• At large
  • A key to bridging the political divide: Sit down and talk? (May/June 2021)
  • The coronavirus could reshape the global order (May/June 2020)
  • Clothed in misery (July/August 2013)
  • Study finds frequent newspaper readers are more trusting (Jan/February 2012)
  • Oilmen big winners in Mideast revolutions (March/April 2011)
  • Three Cups of Tea - Book review (Sept/October 2008)
  • Curveball: The Con Man Who Caused a War (March/April 2008)
  • Video games for peace (March/April 2006)
  • $100 ticket for bumpersticker (March/April 2006)
  • Give a girl child an equal chance (Jan/February 2006)
    
    
• Ballistic Missile Defense
  • Space-based missile defense still unwise (Jan/February 2019)
  • Missile defense flight test secrecy may be reversed (May/June 2018)
  • Anti-missile test succeeds; system still not functional (May/June 2017)
  • Flawed missile defense system generated $2 billion in bonuses for Boeing (May/June 2017)
  • U.S. missile defense system is ‘simply unable to protect the public' (Sept/October 2016)
  • Pentagon skips tests on key component of U.S.-based missile defense system (March/April 2016)
  • The Pentagon’s $10 billion missile-defense bet gone bad (Sept/October 2015)
  • Pentagon preparing EIS for Ballistic Missile Defense System on East Coast (Sept/October 2014)
  • U.S. missile defense system continues string of test failures (Sept/October 2013)
  • Our fruitless quest for missile defense (May/June 2013)
  • Russia may target U.S. missile shield in Europe (Nov/December 2011)
  • U.S. missile intercept test fails again (Jan/February 2011)
  • U.S. missile intercept test misses by miles (Jan/February 2010)
  • Obama to scrap Bush’s approach to missile shield (Sept/October 2009)
  • Missile defense ideology and counterspin (March/April 2009)
  • Bush’s Cold War redux (Sept/October 2008)
  • Ballistic Missile Defense: from fantasy to furor (May/June 2007)
  • Bush moves to put missiles back in Europe (Jan/February 2007)
  • Dual missile test fails off Hawaii (Jan/February 2007)
  • Deployment follows missile defense failures (July/August 2005)
  • Duck and cover, Canada [BMD] (March/April 2005)
  • National Missile Defense system a fantasy (Jan/February 2003)
  • Lawsuit challenges ABM Treaty withdrawal (July/ August 2002)
  • Pentagon skeptical about its anti-missile (Sept/October 2001)
  • "Damn the treaties! Full speed ahead." (Jan/February 2001)
  • Our national insecurity (NMD - Jan/February 2001)
  • Fraud in the NMD test program (July/August 2000)
  • BMD no defense against HIV (May/June 2000)
    
    
• Biden Administration
  • Here’s what to expect from Biden on top nuclear weapons issues (Nov/December 2020)
    
    
• Budget
  • America’s debt threatens our national security (July/August 2020)
  • Balancing the national checkbook (July/August 2011)
  • House boosts military budget in time of austerity (July/August 2011)
  • Pentagon can cut the military budget and still keep us safe (May/June 2008)
    
    
• Bush Administration
  • Bush trip called off amid threats of protests, legal action (March/April 2011)
  • Complaint filed with ICC against Bush, Cheney, et al. (Jan/February 2010)
  • State of Disunion 2008 (Jan/February 2008)
  • Diplomats cite Bush policy in refusing Iraq duty (Jan/February 2008)
  • ‘I’ word use is now bipartisan (March/April 2007)
  • Rumsfeld sued for alleged war crimes (Nov/December 2006)
    
    
• Chemical & Biological Weapons
  • U.S. germ warfare research pushes treaty limits (Sept/October 2001)
    
    
• China
  • China’s H-20 Stealth Bomber: A Threat to the U.S. Military? (Winter 2023)
  • Trove of leaked photos reveals China’s abuses in Uyghur detention camps (May/June/July 2022)
    
    
• CIA, NSA & FBI
  • The lessons of Aldrich Ames (May/June 2019)
  • Lithuania and Romania complicit in C.I.A. renditions (July/August 2018)
  • A newly assertive C.I.A. expands its Taliban hunt in Afghanistan (Nov/December 2017)
  • Lawsuit opens a window on brutal C.I.A. interrogations (Sept./October 2017)
  • C.I.A arms for Syrian rebels supplied the black market (July/August 2016)
  • Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing (May/June 2016)
  • CIA illegally let the wrong people do intelligence work (May/June 2016)
  • CIA naked photos scandal is a wake-up call (March/April 2016)
  • CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured (March/April 2016)
  • ‘88 Days to Kandahar’: The CIA in Afghanistan (March/April 2015)
  • Ex-CIA chief Petraeus to plead guilty in affair-related case (March/April 2015)
  • Senate Intelligence Committee chair moves to suppress CIA torture report (Jan/February 2015)
  • ‘No American is proud’ of CIA tactics, State Dept. says (Sept/October 2014)
  • The CIA’s moral black hole (May/June 2014)
  • Secret C.I.A. arms cache most likely kept in Texas (May/June 2014)
  • Polish ex-intelligence official says time for truth on CIA jail (Jan/February 2014)
  • Privacy board says NSA snooping program is illegal (Jan/February 2014)
  • Intelligence collection and the rule of law (Nov/December 2013)
  • NSA repeatedly violated its own rules (Nov/December 2013)
  • Reagan issued order for NSA’s data collection (Nov/December 2013)
  • Intelligence officials admit that Edward Snowden's NSA leaks call for reforms (Sept/October 2013)
  • NSA recruitment drive goes horribly wrong (July/August 2013)
  • Some 54 countries helped CIA detention programs (March/April 2013)
  • CIA rendition details revealed by U.S. court case (Sept/October 2011)
  • CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents, says rights group (Sept/October 2011)
  • Release of secret reports delayed (Jan/February 2010)
  • CIA used ‘inhumane’ tactics in detainee interrogations (Sept/October 2009)
  • Secret CIA ‘hit team’ program terminated by Panetta (Sept/October 2009)
  • CIA lied over 2001 downing of missionary plane (Nov/December 2008)
  • Political dissent targeted by FBI (Sept/October 2008)
  • Political clashes underline limits to intelligence reform (May/Jume 2008)
  • Supreme Court turns down case of FBI translator (Jan/February 2006)
  • Life in the CIA: Once clandestine, now read all about it (May/June 2005)
  • WMD commission whitewashes Bush's intelligence (March/April 2005)
  • FBI whistle-blower vindicated (Jan/February 2005)
  • How the CIA breaks prisoners (May/June 2004)
  • Ex-CIA urge probe of agent outing (Jan/February 2004)
    
    
• Citizenship
  • Step up for your country (Jan/February 2011)
    
    
• Commentary
  • The War to End All Wars (May/June/July 2022)
  • Why America should not deepen its military involvement in Ukraine (March/April 2022)
  • America’s empathy problem — and what to do about it (July/August 2021)
  • The cost of an incoherent foreign policy (Jan/February 2020)
  • Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism (Nov/December 2019)
  • Calming the storms of life (July/August 2019)
  • Why do they hate us? (July/August 2018)
  • Will we stop Trump before it’s too late? (May/June 2018)
  • It’s time for a patriotic GOP intervention (Jan/February 2018)
  • Meet the world’s leaders, in hypocrisy (Sept/October 2017)
  • American fascism, in 1944 and today (July/August 2017)
  • Build bridges with people who have differing views (May/June 2017)
  • Once a great notion - Kathleen Parker (Sept/October 2016)
  • A parable for our times - Bill Moyers (Sept/October 2015)
  • Laws are unnecessary when morality is sufficient (July/August 2015)
  • Seahawks coach teaches peace (Nov/December 2014)
  • Reagan’s legacy of theatrics persists in politics today (May/June 2014)
  • Can the crazies be kept under control? (March/April 2012)
  • War in Iraq has made U.S. less safe (Dec. 5, 2010)
  • Getting beyond the impossibly perfect standard (May/June 2010)
  • U.S. House turns blind eye to U.N. report on Gaza war crimes (Nov/December 2009)
  • Galileo put us in our place (March/April 2009)
  • Separation of church and state (Jan/February 2009)
  • Nationalism is blind (Sept/October 2008)
  • How to discuss politics nonviolently (Sept/October 2008)
  • Too Many Years, Too Many Lives (March/April 2008)
  • Bush, U.S. troops stuck in the sand (Jan/February 2008)
  • Beyond war - Martin Luther King Jr. (Jan/February 2008)
  • SLC mayor ‘rocks’ the DC establishment (Nov/Dec. 2007)
  • School’s in; teach peace (Sept/October 2007)
  • Five years and continuing (Sept/October 2007)
  • Iraq ‘surge’ hides the purge (Sept. 23, 2007)
  • Whose finger is on the button? (July/August 2007)
  • Dysfunctional Democracy (May/June 2007)
  • It’s patriotic to criticize our generals (May/June 2007)
  • Friendship formula for world peace (March/April 2007)
  • ‘Surge’ won’t work (2 February 2007)
  • Bipartisan butchery (5 January 2007)
  • Iraq burns, we shop (Nov/December 2006)
  • ‘Islamo-Fascism’ misleading (9 Nov 2006)
  • Moral America (Sept/October 2006)
  • 9/11 Five years on (Sept/October 2006)
  • A world at war, again (July/August 2006)
  • A father reflects on war, his son and the military (July/August 2006)
  • Leading by example, but not U.S. (May/June 2006)
  • The creep that brought us the Iraq war (May/June 2006)
  • Nuclear security on the auction block (May/June 2006)
  • A Message of Hope (March/April 2006)
  • Views of Iraq, three years later (18 March 2006)
  • Our 'Dogs of War', three years later (18 March 2006)
  • Relevance of Gandhi (Jan/February 2006)
  • The True Costs of the Iraq War (Jan/February 2006)
  • Morality of torture (13 Jan 2006)
  • The Problem in Iraq (9 Dec 2005)
  • Grieving for America (Nov/December 2005)
  • Nuremberg and Iraq - (29 Nov 2005)
  • ENOUGH! [Iraq war] (24 Sept 2005)
  • LET GO & LET LIVE [Iraq war] (24 Sept 2005)
  • Power in the act of witnessing (Sept/October 2005)
  • Imperial church allied with closed-world system (Sept/October 2005)
  • Pharisee nation (July/August 2005)
  • Two years and descending [Iraq war] (19 March 2005)
  • The children not left behind [Iraq war] (19 March 2005)
  • Peeking under the national Christmas tree in 2004 [Abu Ghraib] (Jan/Feb 2005)
  • Negative U.S. image due to flawed policies, says report (Nov/December 2004)
  • How many more Iraqis must die for our revenge? (Nov/December 2004)
  • ‘Quaint’ Gonzales must go (Nov/December 2004)
  • It’s between friends (Sept/October 2004)
  • Ronald Reagan and The Bomb (July/August 2004)
  • The Plain Truth [9/11] (July/August 2004)
  • Michael Moore a bully? (July/August 2004)
  • Voting for Kerry (July/August 2004)
  • In God We Trust? (May/June 2004)
  • The world without Saddam Hussein (May/June 2004)
  • A mother's heart (May/June 2004)
  • Iraq war an outrage (March/April 2004)
  • Stepping barefoot toward peace (March/April 2004)
  • Crime and Punishment (Jan/February 2004)
  • Quagmire! [Iraq war] (Sept/October 2003)
  • To save face, the U.S. needs the U.N. (July/August 2003)
  • Is everything roses? [national debt] (July/August 2003)
    
    
• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty - CTBT
  • Obama to push for test ban treaty (May/June 2011)
  • Test Ban Treaty only half a loaf (Sept/October 1996)
    
    
• Conscientious objection
  • Vietnam-era Navy deserter hopes to rally a new anti-war generation (Jan/February 2017)
  • Bradley Manning sentenced for leaking documents (Sept/October 2013)
  • Pvt. Bradley Manning pleads guilty to some charges (March/April 2013)
  • The trials of Lt. Ehren Watada (May/June 2009)
  • Lt. Watada won’t be retried on key charges (Nov/December 2008)
  • Soldier changed by Iraq war (Jan/February 2007)
  • Sgt. Kevin Benderman - conscientious objector (Sept/October 2005)
  • Not in a soldier's name (March/April 2003)
    
    
• Corruption
  • We need an international court to stamp out corruption (Sept/October 2014)