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• Obama Administration
  • The kill memo: The president as judge, jury and executioner (March/April 2012)
  • Obama: peace president or war president? (Nov/December 2009)
  • Surprised Obama awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (NOv/December 2009)
  • President Barack Obama reclaims American values (Jan/February 2009)
  • Can Obama take on the Pentagon? (Jan/February 2009)
  • Hope realized in Obama election (Nov/December 2008)
    
    
• Pakistan
  • Pakistani doctor imprisoned for helping CIA find bin Laden (May/June 2012)
  • United States vacates drone base in Pakistan following deadly attack on Pakistani troops (Nov/December 2011)
  • Pakistan’s nuclear folly (May/June 2011)
  • Armed conflict in Pakistan leads to polio spike (May/June 2011)
  • Pakistan army chief condemns U.S. drone attack (March/April 2011)
  • $1 billion for U.S. embassies in Pakistan, Afghanistan (Sept/October 2009)
  • Crisis in Pakistan increases mistrust of U.S. (May/June 2009)
  • Pakistan won’t be first in nuclear strike (Nov/December 2008)
    
    
• Patriot Act
  • Patriot Act operations classified ‘secret' (May/June 2011)
  • Patriot Act unconstitutional (Jan/February 2004)
    
    
• Peace & Activism
  • 2022 Nobel Peace Prize (Fall 2022)
  • 2021 Nobel Peace Prize (Nov/December 2021)
  • 2020 Nobel Peace Prize won by World Food Program (Nov/December 2020)
  • ‘Department of Peace’ is a bonkers idea that’s totally necessary (Sept/October 2019)
  • 2018 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to anti-rape activists (Nov/December 2018)
  • Anti-nuke campaign group wins 2017 Nobel Peace Prize (Nov/December 2017)
  • Tunisian group wins 2015 Nobel Peace Prize (Nov/December 2015)
  • Pakistani teen, Indian activist win 2014 Nobel Peace Prize (Nov/December 2014)
  • 2013 Nobel Peace Prize goes to chemical-weapons watchdog (Nov/December 2013)
  • 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to European Union
  • Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation (Nov/December 2012
  • Famous handshakes that brought messages of peace (July/August 2012)
  • Statistics show a more peaceful world (Jan/February 2012)
  • 2011 Nobel Peace Prize recognizes women’s rights activists (Nov/December 2011)
  • Widow of Andrei Sakharov dies at 88 (July/August 2011)
  • 2010 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Chinese human rights activist
  • 2009 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to surprised Barack Obama
  • To win peace, restore the Peace Corps (Nov/December 2008)
  • 2008 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Martti Ahtisaari of Finland
  • Activist faith stays burning - Jim Wallis (Nov/December 2008)
  • Daniel Berrigan at 87 (May/June 2008)
  • Blind SOA activist chooses jail time (May/June 2008)
  • Queen of Jordan works to empower women (Jan/February 2008)
  • 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to U.N. Climate Change Panel and Al Gore (Nov/Dec 2007)
  • IN MEMORIAM: Randall Forsberg - A Soldier for Peace (Nov/December 2007)
  • 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to microloan pioneers (Nov/December 2006)
  • Ammon Hennacy, Christian anarchist (July/August 2006)
  • Relevance of Gandhi (Jan/February 2006)
  • 2005 Nobel Peace Prize to nuclear agency (Nov/December 2005)
  • IN MEMORIAM: Joseph Rotblat (Sept/October 2005)
  • 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to academic and activist (Nov/December 2004)
  • Peace Action national congress 2004
  • Pacifist and 16 (Jan/February 2004)
  • M. L. King Jr America has ignored (Jan/February 2004)
  • 2003 Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian lawyer (Nov/December 2003)
  • The price of peace (Sept/October 2003)
  • Plowshares nuns sentenced (July/August 2003)
  • IN MEMORIAM: Philip Berrigan (Jan/February 2003)
  • 2002 Nobel Peace Prize to Jimmy Carter (Nov/December 2002)
  • A Passionate Education (Sept/October 2002)
  • Teach Peace, Not War [Colman McCarthy] (Nov/December 2001)
  • 2001 Nobel Peace Prize to U.N. & Kofi Annan (Nov/December 2001)
  • 2000 Nobel Peace Prize to South Korean President (Nov/December 2000)
  • Millennium Summit issues progressive agenda (Sept/October 2000)
  • U.S. needs academies that teach youth to wage peace (Nov/December 1999)
  • Students Promise Peace and Live Up to It (Nov/December 1996)
    
    
• Plutonium
  • U.S. Energy Department returns to costly and risky plutonium separation technologies (Fall 2022)
  • Why a decision on a second U.S. plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed (July/August 2020)
  • Britain has 139 tons of plutonium. That’s a real problem. (May/June 2020)
  • How much will it cost to destroy stockpiled U.S. weapons plutonium? (Sept/October 2014)
  • End of Hanford plutonium shipments in sight (Jan/February 2009)
  • DOE to ship plutonium off Hanford (Sept/October 2007)
  • NNSA seeks to expand Pu pit production for new warhead (Nov/December 2005)
  • Plutonium? It's the pits! (July/August 1997)
  • New greenbacks to promote ZPG (Sept/October 1998)
    
    
• Police
  • The more military equipment police have, the more they kill (Sept/October 2020)
  • Killer instincts (March/Aapril 2018)
  • US police killings headed for 1,100 this year, with black Americans twice as likely to die (Sept/October 2015)
  • U.N. racism committee urges U.S. to stop police brutality after Missouri shooting (Sept/October 2014)
  • SWAT teams treat U.S. neighborhoods ‘like a war zone’ (July/August 2014)
    
    
• Politics
  • Minority children suffer from hate rhetoric in presidential campaign (July/August 2016)
    
    
• Racism & Hate Crimes
  •  Remembering the Birmingham church bombing (Sept/October 2019)
  • White supremacists and other hatemongers emboldened, energized in the Trump era (Nov/December 2017)
  • Tall tales spread by Alex Jones breed dangerous plots (March/April 2017)
    
    
• Refugees
  • The IRC and Sesame Workshop bring hope and education to a generation of Syrian refugee children. (Jan/February 2019)
  • U.S. and its moral obligation to those at the border (Nov/December 2018)
  • Parents now dealing with trauma of 3-year-old separated from father at the border (July/August 2018)
  • Syrian refugees deserve freedom from slaughter (Nov/December 2015)
  • Anne Frank and her family were denied entry as refugees to the United States (Nov/December 2015)
  • Millions facing misery in worst refugee crisis since World War II (July/August 2015)
    
    
• Republicans
  • It is enough: An open letter to the sick at heart (May/June 2012)
    
    
• Russia
  • How the Kremlin has co-opted its critics and militarized the home front (Spring 2023)
  • Russia is a failed state (Fall 2022)
  • Putin against history (May/June/July 2022)
  • Perilous bargains that keep Putin in power (May/June 2021)
  • 100,000 flee ‘worsening oppression’ as Russia tightens grip on Crimea (July/August 2016)
  • Putin signs tough anti-protest law (Sept/October 2012)
  • Bloggers breach Russian rocket plant (Jan/February 2012)
  • Bush’s Cold War redux (Sept/October 2008)
    
    
• Slavery
  • 40 million slaves in the world, new report finds (Nov/December 2017)
    
    
• Space & Weapons
  • Anti-satellite weapons are creating space hazards (March/April 2022)
  • Private eyes in the sky: How commercial satellites are transforming intelligence (Sept/October 2021)
  • Is using nuclear materials for space travel dangerous, genius, or a little of both? (Sept/October 2021)
  • The focus of U.S. military efforts in outer space should be arms control (July/August 2019)
  • Space Force: Adding bureaucracy without adding capability (Jan/February 2019)
    
    
• Syria
  • After 10 years of war, Syria is still a ‘living nightmare’ (March/April 2021)
  • Civilian killings by U.S.-led coalition in Syria and Iraq tripled in 2017 (Jan/February 2018)
  • 5 years of war in Syria (July/August 2016)
  • Pentagon’s failed Syria program cost $2 million per trainee (Jan/February 2016)
  • Syria’s violence engenders worst humanitarian crisis in a century (Sept/October 2014)
  • ‘Unspeakable suffering’ for Syria’s children, U.N. reports (Jan/February 2014)
  • The hidden plight of Syria’s urban refugees (Sept/October 2013)
  • U.N. Security Council adopts binding resolution on Syria’s chemical weapons (Sept/October 2013)
    
    
• Terrorism
  • U.S. right-wing militias a growing threat (Nov/December 2020)
  • America’s ‘war on terror’ has displaced at least 37-million people (Sept/October 2020)
  • Myanmar’s ‘extensive and systematic preparations’ for Rohingya atrocities (July/August 2018)
  • How the war on terrorism became a business model (May/June 2015)
  • Islamic authority says extremists no ‘Islamic State’ (Sept/October 2014)
  • Al-Qaeda is a criminal justice problem, not a military one (Jan/February 2012)
  • Revenge is not the way to peace (May/June 2011)
  • Your taxes fund anti-Muslim hatred (May/June 2011)
  • Terrorism is ‘blowback’ from U.S. foreign policy (May/June 2008)
  • Terrorism seeps out of Iraq (July/August 2007)
  • Army study slams war on terror (Jan/February 2004)
  • ‘Year in hell’ brings lawsuit against U.S. (Jan/February 2004)
  • Red Cross blasts U.S. over prisoners (Nov/December 2003)
  • Shredding the Constitution (Nov/December 2001)
    
    
• Torture
  • What the C.I.A.’s torture program looked like to the tortured (Jan/February 2020)
  • CIA torturers should sue the federal government (Jan/February 2016)
  • FBI agents accused of torturing U.S. citizen abroad can’t be sued (Jan/February 2016)
  • Psychologists shielded U.S. torture program, report finds (July/August 2015)
  • U.S. vague about alleged abuses of treaty against torture (Nov/December 2014)
  • The cost of not ‘looking backwards’ at torture (March/April 2014)
  • U.S. practiced torture after 9/11, review concludes (May/June 2013)
  • Human rights court finds CIA tortured Khaled el-Masri (Jan/February 2013)
  • No penalty for torture (Sept/October 2012)
  • Torture needs accountability (Sept/October 2012)
  • E.U. votes for CIA torture probe (Sept/October 2012)
  • Victims of torture, the perpetrators and the healers (May/June 2012)
  • Ricardo Sanchez calls for torture commission (Jan/February 2011)
  • Italian court convicts 23 Americans in CIA rendition case (Nov/December 2009)
  • Tales from torture’s dark world (March/April 2009)
  • Alleged 20th hijacker on 9-11 was tortured; charges dropped (March/April 2009)
  • Spanish court reviews torture by Bush-era officials (March/April 2009)
  • Torture victim vindicated (May/June 2007)
  • New law absolves Bush of war crimes (Sept/October 2006)
  • Torture’s long shadow (Sept/October 2006)
  • Revisiting Abu Ghraib (March/April 2006)
  • Morality of torture (Jan. 13, 2006)
  • U.S. losing friends over torture (Nov/December 2005)
  • ‘Quaint’ Gonzales must go (Nov/December 2004)
    
    
• Tritium
  • Tritium passes into reactor coolant (Jan/February 2013)
  • Tritium rods sent to Savannah River Site (Nov/December 2005)
  • U.S. resumes tritium production (Nov/December 2003)
  • Tritium target contract (March/April 2000)
  • Tritium mission goes to TVA ... (Jan/February 1999)
  • WCPeace opposes FFTF use for tritium (Jan/February 1998)
  • Tritium test rods made at Hanford (Sept/October 1997)
  • U.S. tritium plans violate NPT obligations (March/April 1997)
    
    
• Trump administration
  • Why does Trump lie? (Sept/October 2020)
  • I lived in the post-truth Soviet world and I hear its echoes in Trump’s America (May/June 2020)
  • Trump calls the pandemic ‘worse than Pearl Harbor’ — and declares a cease-fire (May/June 2020)
  • Trump’s pardons for servicemen raise fears that laws of war are history (Nov/December 2019)
  • What Trump is teaching our children (Sept/October 2019)
  • Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting the United States (Sept/October 2019)
  • Is Trump order to prepare arms-control push with Russia and China a deception? (May/June 2019)
  • Making America hate again (May/June 2019)
  • President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims (May/June 2019)
  • In Paris, Trump walks alone as French president rips nationalism (Nov/December 2018)
  • Trump will have blood on his hands (Sept/October 2018)
  • United States quits United Nations Human Rights Council (July/August 2018)
  • Trump thrills white supremacists in 2017 (March/April 2018)
  • President Trump is pro-war and anti-peace (May/June 2017)
  • Trump’s arms sale to Saudi Arabia (May/June 2017)
  • Allies fear Trump is eroding America’s moral authority (March/April 2017)
  • Why I cannot fall in line behind Trump (Jan/February 2017)
  • Trump to focus on ‘peace through strength’ over ‘soft power’ approach (Jan/February 2017)
  • Trump poised to lift ban on CIA prisons and torture (Jan/February 2017)
  • Women’s March on Washington (Jan/February 2017)
  • Trump’s plans for military buildup promise nukes and debt (Nov/December 2016)
  • Foreign-policy experts grow more hostile to Trump (Sept/October 2016)
  • Taliban leaders watched U.S. presidential debate, blast ‘non-serious’ Trump (Sept/October 2016)
    
    
• United Nations
  • United Nations adopts treaty banning nuclear weapons,
    but no nuclear-armed nations are on board (July/August 2017)
  • Revolutionary priest to head next U.N. General Assembly (July/August 2008)
    
    
• United States
  • Longing for common ground (Nov/December 2012)
  • 'The Last Best Hope' (May/June 2006)
  • Impeachment whispers get louder (March/April 2006)
  • Dream on, America (Jan/February 2005)
    
    
• Uranium
  • Uranium supplies are not a U.S. national security problem (May/June 2020)
  • Is the Pentagon giving our soldiers cancer?(March/April 2004)
    
    
• Veterans - PTSD
  • The wounds of the drone warrior (July/August & Sept/October 2018)
  • Anti-war congressman works to remember the dead (Sept/October 2016)
  • U.S. courts should consider war trauma of veterans on death row, study says (Nov/December 2015)
  • Veterans frustrated by presidential debate on Iraq war (May/June 2015)
  • Almost 500 serving U.S. military personnel committed suicide in 2013 (March/April 2015)
  • Veteran’s hidden wounds (July/August 2013)
  • Wounded veterans congregate in Tacoma (Nov/December 2011)
  • Ex-Marine, veterans’ advocate kills himself (May/June2011)
  • Fighting for peace of mind (Jan/February 2011)
  • More troops killed by suicide than war (March/April 2010)
  • Rise in troop suicides alarming (May/June 2009)
  • Dear Abby on PTSD (Nov/December 2006)
  • A soldier's pain deep inside (Sept/October 2005)
    
    
• Violence
  • Grisly killing of child bares brutal nature of Wahhabism (May/June 2019)
  • Hitting your children is legal in all 50 states (March/April 2015)
  • Int’l Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women
    commemorates triple murder of Dominican women (Nov/December 2014)
  • Gun violence at U.S. schools continues to grow sharply (July/August 2014)
  • Third of world’s women suffer domestic violence (Sept/October 2013)
  • Violent deaths more common in U.S. than any other wealthy nation (Jan/February 2013)
  • Video games inspire nightmare atrocities in real life (May/June 2012)
  • 27.5 million uprooted by violence (March/April 2011)
  • Children targeted for violent entertainment (Nov/December 2000)
  • Trained to Kill (July/August 1999)
  • The rod and the big stick [spanking] (May/June 1999)
  • Toys make war on Christmas peace (Nov/December 1996)
  • Poor children targets of sex exploitation (Nov/December 1996)
    
    
• War
  • War and peace: imagining a way from one to the other in Ukraine (Fall 2022)
  • Senate fails to override Trump veto of Iran War Powers resolution (May/June 2020)
  • What was the Vietnam War about? (May/June 2018)
  • Lawmakers reject modification of 9/11 law to restrict open-ended warfare (Nov/December 2017)
  • 16 yearsand $5.6 trillion later, are the post-9/11 wars worth it? (Nov/December 2017)
  • New U.N. chief calls for ‘whole new approach’ to prevent war (Jan/February 2017)
  • Post-September 11 wars have cost $4.79 trillion (Sept/October 2016)
  • World lost more than $13 trillion last year because of war (July/August 2016)
  • Vatican conference urges abandonment of ‘just war’ theory (May/June 2016)
  • Napalmed in Vietnam, ‘girl’ heals scars in United States (Nov/December 2015)
  • From Vietnam to Iraq: Turning a nightmare into a fairy tale (May/June 2015)
  • War’s lasting traumas (Jan/February 2013)
  • The Disease of War (Sept/October 2012)
  • The pictures of war you aren’t supposed to see (March/April 2010)
  • Bosnian Serb gets 30 years for genocide (Nov/December 2009)
  • War is sin (Sept/October 2009)
  • Memory, War, and the Memory of War (May/June 2009)
  • Hero of My Lai dies at 62 (Jan/February 2006)
  • War kills ten years later (Nov/December 2005)
  • Army unit waged reign of horror in Vietnam (May/June & July/August 2004)
  • History of abuse (July/August 2004)
  • Lest we forget [Vietnam] (March/April 2000)
  • The rod and the big stick [Kosovo] (May/June 1999)
  • "Contact 2" (Jan/February 1998)
  • Kids cannon fodder for grownups' wars (Nov/December 1996)
    
    
• War crimes
  • The man who brought the Nazi death squads to justice (July/August 2021)
  • U.N. panel directly accuses Russia of war crimes in Syria (March/April 2020)
  • The man who brought the Nazi death squads to justice (July/August 2017)
    
    
• Weapons
  • We are in a new era of warfare with drones (March/April 2022)
  • Australia to get nuclear subs in new U.S., British partnership (Sept/October 2021)
  • F-35 design flaws mounting, new document shows (May/June 2020)
  • Cool your jets: Some perspective on the hyping of hypersonic weapons (March/April 2020)
  • Abundance of countries with military drones is changing the way the world prepares for war (Nov/December 2019)
  • New Pentagon weapons systems easily hacked (Nov/December 2018)
  • Global arms sales reach post-Cold War peak (March/April 2017)
  • F-35 may never be ready for combat (Nov/Decembar 2016)
  • Weapons missing in action (Sept/October 2015)
  • Air Force’s $486 million in planes reap $32,000 as scrap in Afghanistan (Nov/December 2014)
  • Balkan floods have undone years of landmine detection (May/June 2014)
  • Assault rifle designer Mikhail Kalashnikov dead at 94 (Jan/February 2014)
  • 277 million Boston bombings (May/June 2013)
  • China replaces Britain in world’s top five arms exporters (March/April 2013)
  • U.S. continues to be the world’s largest arms merchant (Sept/October 2012)
  • U.S. opposition to cluster bomb ban fails (Nov/December 2011)
  • Weapons of Mideast oppression 'Made in U.S.A.' (March/April 2011)
  • The real ‘Merchants of Death' (Jan/February 2011)
  • Armed violence kills 2,000 a day worldwide (May/June 2010)
  • U.S. is odd man out of cluster bomb ban (Sept/October 2008)
  • IED - 'Made in the USA' (March/April 2008)
    
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