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To Stop US Militarism And Criminal Wars, We Need Universal Conscription – OpEd

To Stop US Militarism And Criminal Wars, We Need Universal Conscription – OpEd

Driving home from my coffee at the local food co-op in a suburb just north of Philadelphia, I passed by

16.03.2026 2

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To Stop US Militarism and Criminal Wars, We Need Universal Conscription

The Trump White House is refusing to rule out a draft, and also won’t rule out sending current all-volunteer troops into Iran, and look at the hue...

16.03.2026 10

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‘Peace’ President Trump Launches another War, This time a Doozy that Could Rival Bush’s Iraq Nightmare

As Iran was in no condition to attack the US, even as Trump had assembled the largest naval armada since the launching of the invasion of Iraq in 2003...

03.03.2026 20

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UK High Court Blocks Starmer’s Effort to Label Palestine Action a Terrorist Group

Last year, I was living in the UK when activists from the anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian direct action group Palestine Action hugely. embarrassed the...

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Calling BS on DHS Insistence on Masked ICE and Border Patrol Agents

This private army operating under the authority of Trump and his Constitution-savaging executive orders, with its gratuitous violence and willful...

12.02.2026 10

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Read All About It! Tycoon Tires of Playing Media Magnate, Kills Major Daily to Spend More Time With Trophy Wife

The kindest thing that could b said about Jeff Bezos slashing the slashing the staff by over a third – that’s over 300 jobs—with more to come,...

05.02.2026 10

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Building Trump’s Personal Army

This past June 11, President Donald Trump gave one of his stock speeches full of the usual boasts about his GREAT FIRST 100 days back in office and...

29.08.2025 5

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Teenage Atomic Spy Ted Hall and Nagasaki Atom Bombing

Eighty years ago this week, Manhattan Project workers at the top-secret bomb development lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico were rushing to get the...

08.08.2025 10

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Britain Quits the ‘Free World’

Cambridge, UK— The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much-touted...

08.07.2025 10

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A Time for Peace in Europe and Asia

The US has a long history of not knowing how to end or peacefully resolve vexing international crises and conflicts with less powerful nations.  A...

12.06.2025 10

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Starmer Chooses Bombs Over Better Health Care

Fears of Russia attack lead not to peace feelers but nuke counter-threats Cambridge UK — I woke yesterday to a splendid day: bright sunshine, blue...

05.06.2025 8

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Is Zionism Losing Its Grip?

The World is Sickened by Israel’s Genocide in Gaza (Including Many Israelis and IDF Soldiers) Cambridge, UK — Israel’s leaders, and by...

22.05.2025 10

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Fear of Protesting Trump Policies Spreads in US

Cambridge, UK — I just returned to this medieval English university town last week after a three-and-a-half week visit to the US where my...

15.05.2025 10

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Fascism Comes to the US, Visitors, Not So Much

Flying into the US at Newark International Airport last Monday after having been away from this country since last October 1 was a shock. Over the 55...

24.04.2025 10

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The Trump Administration and DOGE Have Devised the Vilest Tactic Imaginable for Illegally Driving Out Legal US Immigrants

Cambridge, UK—Elon Musk may have a knack for thinking outside the box, but reportedly his twisted scheme to force even totally legal and law-abiding...

18.04.2025 10

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Two Immigrant First Amendment Heroes Separated by Three Centuries

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student in child psychology at Tufts University in Medford, was standing alone on a sidewalk last Tuesday when she...

04.04.2025 10

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Politicians Shouldn’t Fear AI – OpEd

By Param Vir Singh Language was the original technological revolution. Between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, early humans in Africa

27.03.2025 7

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Trump Demonstrates His Ignorance in Ordering Development Of ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense – OpEd

Impressed with the success of Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense against a attack by Iranian missiles and drones, President Trump has ordered

27.03.2025 10

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Trump Demonstrates His Ignorance in Ordering Development of “Golden Dome” Missile Defense

Impressed with the success of Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense against a attack by Iranian missiles and drones, President Trump has ordered...

26.03.2025 10

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Trump Focus on Immigrants, War and Empire Mirrors 1920’s Red Scare Era

The new era of Trump authoritarianism is being called by many a new McCarthyism, but that is not a good analogy. It’s looking worse than the...

18.03.2025 8

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Why US Automakers Make Vehicles And Source Parts In Canada – OpEd

President Trump is blowing up the global economy with threats of extortionate tariffs being placed on imports from foreign countries

11.03.2025 9

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Why US Automakers Make Vehicles and Source Parts in Canada

President Trump is blowing up the global economy with threats of extortionate tariffs being placed on imports from foreign countries to the US. He...

10.03.2025 9

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We Urgently Need a Global Peace Movement to Combat Climate Change and Avoid Nuclear Apocalypse

Reading all the news in my temporary flat at Cambridtge University, where my wife is on a year’s sabbatical leave, I’m able to view all the...

04.03.2025 10

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Palming Off Climate Disaster to the Next Generation

My house located in southeastern Pennsylvania about nine miles north of Philadelphia, in which my wife and I have lived and raised a family over the...

18.02.2025 10

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