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• Islam
  • Norway’s Muslims form human shield around synagogue (March/April 2015)
  • Western secularism clashes with Islamic fundamentalism (May/June 2010)
  • Harsh criticism of U.S. message to Muslim world (Sept/October 2009)
    
    
• Islamic State
  • Does ISIS remain a threat to the U.S. and Europe? (May/June 2019
  • lslamophobia surges amid a ‘politics of fear' (March/April 2016)
  • In the rise of Islamic State, no single missed key but many strands of blame (Nov/December 2015)
  • ISIS and the curse of the Iraq War (Sept/October 2015)
  • Islamic State fights in Syria and Iraq with arms produced worldwide (Jan/February 2015)
  • The cost of fighting ISIS: $300,000 an hour (Nov/December 2014)
    
    
• Israel-Palestine
  • This is how AIPAC really works (March/April 2019)
  • Israel-Palestine conflict solution: one-state or two-state? (Jan/February 2019)
  • The truth about Israel’s secret nuclear arsenal (Jan/February 2018)
  • Israel-Palestine from both sides of the mirror  (July/August  & Sept/October 2017)
  • Israel imposes ‘apartheid regime’ on Palestinians, United Nations agency says (March/April 2017)
  • The real Israel/German submarine scandal (Jan/February 2017)
  • In leaked emails, Colin Powell says Israel has 200 nukes (Sept/October 2016)
  • Israel’s sea-based nukes pose risks (March/April 2016)
  • Netanyahu ends fence-mending U.S. visit with little to show (Nov/December 2015)
  • Damning conclusions for both sides in 2014 Gaza war report (July/August 2015)
  • Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects Palestinian state (March/April 2015)
  • New report cites alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza war (Jan/February 2015)
  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict shifts toward religious war (Nov/December 2014)
  • Israel’s grab of West Bank land for settlement use draws U.S. rebuke (Sept/October 2014)
  • Pope Francis gives Palestinians boost of support (May/June 2014)
  • Israeli actors refuse to star in West Bank performance (Jan/February 2014)
  • Israel seeks interim deal with distrustful Palestinians (May/June 2013)
  • Young Israelis held in brutal attack on Arabs (Sept/October 2012)
  • Israeli ex-intel chief slams Netanyahu’s stance on Iran (May/June 2012)
  • Israel’s religious extremists abuse children and women (March/April 2012)
  • Israel to bar UN team from investigating Jewish settlements (March/April 2012)
  • U.S. defunds UNESCO after vote to admit Palestine (Nov/December 2011)
  • Israeli troops involved in anti-Palestinian attacks (Nov/December 2011)
  • United States opposes Palestine’s bid for statehood (Sept/October 2011)
  • Obama sees 1967 borders as starting point for Israel & Palestine negotiations (May/June 2011)
  • Israel considers annexing West Bank settlements (March/April 2011)
  • Secret report exposes U.S. complicity with Israel's nukes (May/June 2010)
  • First, do no harm in Palestine (May/June 2010)
  • U.N. head says Israeli settlements must be stopped (March/April 2010)
  • Israel gags news of arrested soldier turned journalist (March/April 2010)
  • Make hummus, not war (Jan/February 2010)
  • Israeli police arrest whistleblower Vanunu again (Jan/February 2010)
  • U.S. House turns blind eye to U.N. report on Gaza war crimes (Nov/December 2009)
  • Gaza’s homeless despair (Nov/December 2009)
  • U.N. investigation finds Gaza war crimes by both sides (Sept/October 2009)
  • U.N. rights envoy sees Israeli war crimes in Gaza (March/April 2009)
  • Gaza and the Ghetto (Jan/February 2009)
  • Israeli settlers attack Palestinian children (Nov/December 2008)
  • Pull out of West Bank: Olmert (Sept/October 2008)
  • Hamas and the Palestinians (May/June 2006)
  • Israeli captain who killed Palestinian schoolgirl ‘not guilty' (Nov/December 2005)
  • Israel’s wall proves failure of militarism (Nov/December 2003)
  • A failed Israeli society is collapsing (Sept/October 2003)
  • Israel and Palestinians pledge first steps to peace (May/June 2003)
  • Peace of Jerusalem God’s test of mankind (May/June 2003)
  • Israel-Palestine conflict an epic tragedy (May/June 2002)
    
    
• Japan
  • Kim Jong Un's missiles may be final nail for Japan's pacifism (Sept./October 2017)
  • Japan lower house of parliament OKs expanded military role (July/August 2015)
  • Japan to confront decades-old secret nuke pact with U.S. (Nov/December 2009)
  • Japan’s nuclear weapons taboo is fading (July/August 2008)
  • Breaking taboo, Japan creates defense ministry (Jan/February 2007)
    
    
• Korea
  • U.S. may have to rethink its approach to North Korea (Jan/February 2019)
  • North Korea’s nuclear weapons program isn’t going away (Sept/October 2018)
  • The challenge for Americans in understanding our dangerous world: North Korea (July/August 2018)
  • North Korea’s second thoughts on the summit with President Trump (May/June 2018)
  • The case for letting North Korea keep its nukes (Sept/October 2017)
  • South Korea’s new president proposes military talks with North Korea (July/August 2017)
  • North Korean nuclear threats spotlight U.S. missile defense (May/June 2016)
  • North Korea H-bomb claims met with skepticism (March/April 2016)
  • South Korea, Japan settle deal on wartime sex slaves (Jan/February 2016)
  • North Korea offers to suspend nuclear tests in return for end to U.S. drills (Jan/February 2015)
  • North Korea crimes evoke Nazi era, Kim may face charges (March/April 2014)
    
    
• Latin America
  • Colombia’s peace deal fails to produce a promised new era (July/August 2019)
  • In Mexico, those searching for missing relatives can vanish too (March/April 2019)
  • A new breed of gangs is taking over Central America (Nov//December 2018)
  • Repression and resistance in Mexico (July/August 2018)
  • She fought a silver mine to save her family’s land. It cost this teen activist her life. (March/April 2018)
  • A child survivor’s tale of massacre in Guatemala (July/August 2017)
  • New violence threatens Colombia’s revised peace accord (Nov/December 2016)
  • Child soldier now seeking another path as Colombia tries peace (Nov/December 2016)
  • Guatemala arrests 14 former officials for war-era crimes (Jan/February 2016)
  • El Salvador sees most deadly month in 10 years as violence overwhelms nation (July/August 2015)
  • Chilean accused of murder and torture taught 13 years for Pentagon (May/June 2015)
  • Ex-dictator’s conviction of genocide in Guatemala annulled (May/June 2013)
  • Things you should know about Colombia’s armed conflict (July/August 2012)
  • Former Guatemala dictator faces war crimes charges (Jan/February 2012)
  • Guatemala sentences four in landmark civil war trial (Sept/October 2011)
  • Brazil to buy back guns following school deaths (Sept/October 2011)
  • Secret report suggests Allende was murdered in 1973 coup (July/August 2011)
  • How the drug war changed once-calm Cuernavaca (July/August 2011)
  • Survivors commemorate Colombian massacres (March/April 2011)
  • Mexico drug war killings traumatize children (May/June 2009)
  • Murdered Guatemalan lawyer fingers president in video (May/June 2009)
  • U.S. policy in Mexico: The perfect storm (Sept/October 2008)
  • My Cuba adventure (July/August 2008)
  • In Memoriam: Rufina Amaya (July/August 2007)
  • Guatemala’s secret police files may hold clues to atrocities (Sept/October 2006)
  • Friendshipment Caravan brings zest for aid to Cuba (July/August 2006)
  • The scales of justice: SOA activists sentenced (March/April 2006)
  • ‘School of Assassins’ protest draws 16,000 (Nov/December 2004)
  • SOA protest in Tacoma draws 700 (Nov/December 2003)
  • Assassins kill archbishop in Colombia (March/April 2002)
  • SOA protest draws more thousands (Nov/December 2001)
  • "Not to have an army is a blessing." (Nov/December 2000)
  • 10,000 protest at U.S. Army School of Americas (Nov/December 2000)
  • Too little, but not too late ... [Guatemala] (March/April 1999)
  • "... the root of all evil." (May/June 1997)
    
    
• Media
  • Mexican newspaper shuts down, saying it is too dangerous to continue (May/June 2017)
    
    
• Mercenaries
  • Jury convicts four Blackwater security guards (Nov/December 2014)
  • In Iraq, Blackwater verdict provides no relief from bitterness (Nov/december 2014)
  • Blackwater guards go on trial after 7 years (July/August 2014)
  • New indictments in 2007 Blackwater shootings (Nov/December 2013)
  • 30 false fronts won contracts for Blackwater mercenaries (March/April 2011)
  • Blackwater said to approve Iraqi payoffs after shootings (Nov/December 2009)
  • Blackwater’s license to kill (Nov/December 2007)
  • Witnesses testify in Blackwater lawsuit (Nov/December 2007)
    
    
• Middle East
  • How the U.S. shattered the Middle East (Sept/October 2019)
  • Bad Middle Eastern policies create terrible consequences (PeaceMeal, May/June 2019)
  • Arms sales to Saudis leave American fingerprints on Yemen’s carnage (Jan/February 2019)
  • Bomb in Yemen school bus attack was supplied by the United States (Sept/October 2018)
  • Shielding Saudis on Yemen atrocities (Nov/December 2017)
  • Secret wartime deal drawn up a century ago still shapes the Middle East today (July/August 2016)
  • Echoes of 1991 Gulf War linger on in Mideast: Analysis (March/April 2016)
  • U.N. highlights Saudi Arabia’s appalling record on detention of peaceful activists (March/April 2016)
  • Hatred between Sunnis, Shiites abounds in Mideast (July/August 2013)
  • The Arab Spring is dead (Sept/October 2012)
  • Saudi warns of Mideast nuclear arms race (Jan/February 2012)
  • Mideast governments fail to see the scale of change (Jan/February 2012)
  • Archbishop Elias Chacour speaks of peace in the Middle East (Nov/December 2011)
    
    
• Military
  • U.S. Army’s tweet prompts stories of harmful effects of military service (July/August 2019)
  • Senior military officers rebel against Trump plan to pardon troops accused of war crimes (May/June 2019)
  • Sen. Martha McSally pushes to criminalize sexual harassment in military (May/June 2019)
  • Young women on military bases and sailors on ships at greatest risk for sexual assault (Sept/October 2018)
  • Pentagon gets huge raise in new spending plan (March/April 2018)
  • Lies we tell ourselves about the military (Jan/February 2018)
  • Breaking the militarism mindset: The Pentagon budget (Jan/February 2018)
  • The Pentagon’s silver-bullet hype machine (Nov/December 2017)
  • Pentagon sees climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ (July/August 2017)
  • Pentagon ignores watchdog’s calls for $33.6B in savings (July/August 2017)
  • Pentagon buried evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste (May/June 2017)
  • Retired generals oppose proposed foreign aid cuts (May/June 2017)
  • Militarism is financially and morally bankrupting the USA (Jan/February 2017)
  • Military plans for climate change despite skeptics (Nov/December 2016)
  • Deglamorizing the symbols and trinkets of militarism (Sept/October 2016)
  • Amazing things America could have bought instead of a $1.45-trillion jet fighter (May/June 2016)
  • Once a Soldier, Always a Soldier (May/June 2014)
  • Ukraine crisis reveals need to push ahead with military downsizing (March/April 2014)
  • Sexism part of military academy culture, report says (Jan/February 2014)
  • Air Force’s sex-abuse prevention honcho charged with sexual battery (May/June 2013)
  • Drinking, drugs more common for kids with deployed military parent (May/June 2013)
  • Pentagon has plenty room to cut (May/June 2013)
  • All-volunteer military may desensitize United States to war (Jan/February 2013)
  • Governments fall short in fighting defense corruption (Jan/February 2013)
  • Military kids initiative launched by Mmes. Obama and Biden (Nov/December 2012)
  • How the United States plans to end the sovereignty of other nations (March/April 2012)
  • Military doublespeak: How jargon turns gore into glory (Jan/February 2012)
  • House boosts military budget in time of austerity (July/August 2011)
  • Pentagon to abandon two-war doctrine (Jan/February 2010)
  • Many young Americans unfit for military (Nov/December 2009)
  • Gates’ military budget plan reshapes Pentagon’s priorities (March/April 2009)
  • U.S. axes Navy captain (Sept/October 2008)
  • It’s patriotic to criticize our generals (May/June 2007)
  • U.S. Military Spending vs. World (graph)
  • A father reflects on war, his son and the military (July/August 2006)
  • Wounded soldiers pay for Pentagon errors (May/June 2006)
  • Leave My Child Alone! - ‘opting out’ of military recruitment (Jan/February 2006)
  • Military academy sex assaults surveyed (May/June 2005)
  • Basic training for kids (Nov/December 2004)
  • Trying to buy security [military budget] (Jan/February 2002)
  • Murderers and heroes [Timothy McVeigh] (May/June 2001)
  • Militarism and the Millennium (Sept/October 1999)
    
    
• Military-Industrial Complex
  • MDs urge publisher to sever weapons ties (March/April 2007)
  • Bin laden, Bush, Carlyle and Crusader (May/June 2002)
    
    
• Non-Proliferation Treaty - NPT
  • NPT Conference shows growing rift between nuclear weapon haves and have-nots (May/June 2015)
  • Fractures are widening on Non-Proliferation Treaty (Jan/February 2015)
  • Nuke session approves early steps to disarm (May/June 2010)
  • 2009 NPT PrepCom a qualified success (May/June 2009)
  • NPT review conference Bushwhacked (May/June 2005)
  • Can the Non-Proliferation Treaty be saved? (March/April 2005)
  • NPT RevCon rhetoric fails action test (May/June 2000)
  • U.S. tritium plans violate NPT obligations (March/April 1997)
    
    
• Nuclear disarmament
  • Russia may have violated the INF Treaty. The United States appears to have done the same. (March/April 2019)
  • Mikhail Gorbachev’s plea to the presidents of Russia and the United States (Nov/December 2017)
  • 50 nations ink U.N. nuclear ban treaty opposed by big powers (Sept./October 2017)
  • U.S. Conference of Mayors calls on President Trump to lower nuclear tensions (July/August 2017)
  • Chinese President Xi calls for world without nuclear weapons (Jan/February 2017)
  • The U.N. makes history on a nuclear weapons ban. Does the U.S. care? (Nov/December 2016)
  • Should the United States begin talks to ban nuclear weapons? (Sept/October 2106)
  • Future of nuclear arms control looks bleak, experts say (July/August 2015)
  • Doomsday Clock set at 3 minutes to midnight (Jan/February 2015)
  • Does the “responsibility to protect” include nuclear disarmament? (Nov/December 2013)
  • U.N. displays million-signature petition to ban nukes (July/August 2011)
  • New START treaty enters into force (Jan/February 2011)
  • A royal widow takes on the militarists over nukes (May/June 2010)
  • GOP attacks Obama's nuke policy, ignores Pentagon support (May/June 2010)
  • New START treaty might be finished in weeks (Jan/February 2010)
  • U.N. Security Council adopts measure on nuclear weapons (Sept/October 2009)
  • U.S. and Russia announce deal on nuclear arms reduction (July/August 2009)
  • Nuke-free world a U.S. responsibility, Obama says (March/April 2009)
  • Possibilities for a nuclear weapons-free world (July/August 2008)
  • New report calls for steps toward a nuke-free world (March/April 2008)
  • WMD report challenges nuclear powers (July/August 2006)
  • Stockpiling nuclear arms may destroy human race (Aug. 14, 2002)
  • Nuke Treaty too little, too late (May/June 2002)
  • Global Assembly works to eliminate nuclear weapons (Nov/December 2000)
  • Nagasaki Appeal [complete text] (Nov/December 2000)
  • Congress fiddles while the world burns (Sept/October 1998)
  • Where there's a will, there's a way (July/August 1998)
    
    
• Nuclear power
  • Thorium power is the safer future of nuclear energy (March/April 2015)
  • As reactors age, the money to close them lags (March/April 2012)
  • Sleeping guards shake nuclear industry (Jan/February 2008)
    
    
• Nuclear weapons and war
  • Tit-for-tat conflicts almost always spiral out of control (Sept/October 2019)
  • Trump nuclear arms control plans draw criticism (July/August 2019)
  • Nuclear weapons experts alarmed by new Pentagon ‘war-fighting’ doctrine (July/August 2019)
  • The inhumanity and immorality of nuclear deterrence (March/April 2019)
  • What would Russia nuke? (March/April 2019)
  • The right to life versus nuclear weapons (Jan/February 2019)
  • A new nuclear arms race has begun (Nov/December 2018)
  • Artificial intelligence, cyberattack, and nuclear weapons — a dangerous combination (Nov/December 2018)
  • U.S. general considered nuclear weapons in Vietnam War (Nov/December 2018)
  • Mini-nukes are still a horrible and dangerous idea (Sept/October 2018)
  • 2018 Nuclear Posture Review: Dr. Strangelove in the Pentagon (May/June 2018)
  • How a nuclear attack order is carried out now (March/April 2018)
  • Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight (Jan/February 2018)
  • Hawaii false alarm hints at thin line between accident and nuclear war (Jan/February 2018)
  • Trump’s nuclear weapons decisions incoherent so far (Nov/December 2017)
  • Senate hearing on the President’s authority to launch a nuclear attack (Nov/December 2017)
  • Soviet soldier credited with averting nuclear war dies (Sept./October 2017)
  • Nuclear weapons experts team up to advise world leaders on how to avoid nuclear war (May/June 2017)
  • An open letter to Presidents Trump and Putin: The world needs Nuclear Zero (March/Appril 2017)
  • Why our nuclear weapons can be hacked (March/April 2917)
  • Nuclear arsenal costs ballooning by billions of dollars (Jan/February 2017)
  • Doomsday Clock advances (Jan/February 2017)
  • Trident missile test failure covered up (Jan/February 2017)
  • Risky U.S. nuclear bomb gets green light (Sept/October 2016)
  • The U.S. H-bombs in Turkey (Sept/October 2016)
  • Human extinction from nuclear war isn’t that unlikely (July/August 2016)
  • Scale back U.S. nuclear weapons and stop a new arms race (July/August 2016)
  • Navy builds underground nuke storage facility near Seattle (July/August 2016)
  • Scale back U.S. nuclear weapons and stop a new arms race (May/June 2016)
  • U.S. modernization of nuclear weapons increases possible use in war (Jan/February 2016)
  • ‘Doomsday Clock’ reflects grave threat to world, say scientists (Jan/February 2016)
  • New B61-12 nuclear bomb has expanded capability (Jan/February 2016)
  • More bucks for nukes (Sept/October 2015)
  • Generals call on United States and Russia to end nuclear weapons hair-trigger alert (May/June 2015)
  • Los Alamos lab contractor loses $57 million over nuclear waste accident (Jan/February 2015)
  • Los Alamos lab employee fired after publishing critique of nuclear weapons (Nov/December 2014)
  • Five alarming facts about nuclear weapons today (July/August 2014)
  • Nuclear missiles keep having trouble because they’re old (July/August 2014)
  • Tiny Pacific nation sues 9 nuclear-armed powers (May/June 2014)
  • Commanders fired in nuclear missile cheating scandal (March/April 2014)
  • Nuclear bomb enhancement violates reducing the role of nukes (March/April 2014)
  • New nuke scandal triggers top-level Pentagon review (Jan/February 2014)
  • Nuke missile troubles run deep; key officers “burned out” (Nov/December 2013)
  • No. 2 U.S. nuke commander suspended amid gambling probe (Sept/October 2013)
  • U.S. bloated nuclear weapon spending comes under fire (Sept/October 2013)
  • Have nuke, will travel (July/August 2013)
  • Air Force sidelines 17 nuke officers for ‘marginal’ performance (May/June 2013)
  • Queen Noor presses U.S. to reduce nuclear stockpile (March/April 2013)
  • Nuclear black market extant in former-Soviet Georgia (Jan/February 2913)
  • Reducing the threat of nuclear Armageddon (July/August 2012)
  • For nuclear security, eliminate land-based ‘doomsday’ missiles (May/June 2012)
  • No need for U.S. nuclear testing (May/June 2012)
  • Doomsday Clock moves forward to five minutes to midnight (Jan/February 2012)
  • If we don’t end nuclear weapons, they will end us (Sept/October 2011)
  • U.S., Russia agree to cut nuclear arsenals (March/April 2010)
  • Shifting from a nuclear weapons triad to a nuclear dyad (Jan/February 2010)
  • Strategic failure: Congressional Strategic Posture Commission report (July/August 2009)
  • Nuclear weapons at a crossroads as Obama takes office (Jan/February 2009)
  • U.S. hydrogen bomb never recovered from Greenland (Nov/December 2008)
  • Nuclear missileers are ever-ready (July/August 2008)
  • The bureaucracy of deterrence (May/June 2008)
  • Two top Air Force leaders ousted (May/June 2008)
  • ‘Nuclear Football’ still being passed around (March/April 2008)
  • Pre-emptive nuclear strike option needed, NATO told (Jan/February 2008)
  • Nuclear weapons mistakenly flown over U.S. (Sept/October 2007)
  • Los Alamos certifies plutonium pit (July/August 2007)
  • New warhead design goes to Livermore Lab (March/April 2007)
  • 5 Minutes to Midnight (Jan/February 2007)
  • Bush fiddles with nukes while Putin burns (July/August 2006)
  • Nuclear security on the auction block (May/June 2006)
  • NNSA seeks to expand Pu pit production for new warhead (Nov/December 2005)
  • Pentagon expands nuclear strike plan (Sept/October 2005)
  • Nuke lab bidders getting cold feet (Sept/October 2004)
  • Bad nukes and good nukes (August 9, 2004)
  • Ronald Reagan and The Bomb (July/August 2004)
  • Mordechai Vanunu and U.S. complicity in Israel's nuclear arsenal (May/June 2004)
  • Saudis consider nuclear bomb (Sept/October 2003)
  • North Korea nuke threat intensifies (July/August 2003)
  • Iran pursues 'peaceful' nuclear program (July/August 2003)
  • Mini-nuke ban lifted (May/June 2003)
  • Seven minutes to midnight (March/April 2002)
  • Would you survive a nuclear blast? (July/August 2001)
  • "A drop in the bucket" (July/August 2001)
  • Nuke still loose on U.S. coast (Jan/February 2001)
  • Weapons mega-laser fizzling (July/August 2000)
  • India's nuclear weapon tests reveal U.S. hypocrisy (May/June 1998)
    
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