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U.S. Policies Continue to Harm Innocent Afghan Civilians Even After Armed Forces Withdrawal
by Samuel B. Parker — Six months ago, the U.S. military began an overdue yet chaotic process of withdrawing from Afghanistan. The United...
Mar 4, 20224 min read
The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Nuclear Threat: How Did We Get Here, and What Do We Do Now?
by Samuel B. Parker — On February 24th, Russian forces invaded Ukraine and initiated the first major conventional war on the European...
Mar 1, 20224 min read
Help War’s Victims: End the Economic Punishment of Afghanistan
by John Whitehead — Having already endured decades of civil war, Afghanistan’s people now face economic collapse and abysmal poverty. The...
Feb 21, 20224 min read
A Defense Against Threats or a Cause of Them? The United States’ Global Military Presence
by John Whitehead — The United States’ military presence extends across the earth. U.S. military personnel are located in hundreds of...
Feb 17, 20223 min read
Military Escalation in Ukraine and the Need for Diplomacy
by Rana Irby — American troop numbers are building up in Eastern Europe as tensions between Russia and Ukraine intensify. Over the past...
Feb 12, 20222 min read
A "New Paradigm": The Stunning History of Human Rights Violations at Guantánamo Bay
by Samuel B. Parker — On January 11th, 2002, twenty inmates arrived at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, becoming the first individuals...
Jan 10, 202210 min read
Staving Off War: The Russia, Ukraine, and NATO Stand-Off
by John Whitehead — The long-simmering conflict between Ukraine and Russia now threatens to become open war. Russian military forces...
Jan 1, 20224 min read
Checking the Nuclear Threat: The Opportunity of the Nuclear Posture Review
by John Whitehead — The Biden administration is currently re-evaluating the United States’ nuclear strategy. This re-evaluation offers an...
Dec 21, 20214 min read
The Temptation to Escalate: Responding to China’s Hypersonic Weapon Test
by John Whitehead — U.S.-China tensions increased this fall with U.S. officials’ announcement that China had tested a “hypersonic weapon”...
Dec 8, 20213 min read
Guns in Schools in 2021
by Stephanie Hauer — There was a fight at Timberview High School on Wednesday, October 6. That morning, a conflict broke out among some...
Oct 26, 20213 min read
The Forgotten War: The Libyan War and Its Legacy
by John Whitehead — Of the 21st century wars waged by the United States, the Libya War is perhaps the most forgotten one. The 2011 war...
Oct 18, 20214 min read
After Latest Pentagon Admission, Are We Not Also Terrorists?
by Samuel B. Parker — On August 29th, as the U.S. military was completing an overdue yet abrupt withdrawal from the nation of...
Sep 29, 20213 min read
Report Cites Fraud and Abuse by Post-9/11 Military Contractors
by Judith Evans — The post-9/11 era has seen a dramatic increase in Pentagon spending, with up to half of those funds going to private...
Sep 27, 20215 min read
“Do You Remember 9/11?”
by Katherine Noble — I’ve been in the workplace since I was sixteen, and to this day I am usually the youngest person at my job, be it...
Sep 16, 20213 min read
A Mistake from the Beginning: Looking Back on the Afghanistan War
by John Whitehead — The longest war in American history ended this August as U.S. troops left Afghanistan. What the U.S. withdrawal will...
Sep 13, 20212 min read
Torture and the War On Terror
by Judith Evans — Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. Extraordinary rendition. Torture. In the years following the attacks of September 11, 2001,...
Sep 11, 20215 min read
Twenty Years Later
by Aimee Murphy — The very first issue of our magazine Life Matters Journal had a piece titled, “Ten Years Later” that I wrote in...
Sep 10, 20215 min read
A Global License to Kill: The History of US Targeted Killing
by John Whitehead — Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, allegedly a top al Qaeda member suspected of involvement in the 2000 bombing of the USS...
Sep 10, 20213 min read
U.S. Foreign Policy, Afghanistan, and the Historical Significance of Accepting Refugees
by Rana Irby — Recent years have seen war, violence, conflict, and persecution being major contributors to people leaving their homes as...
Sep 1, 20213 min read
Seek Arms Control, Not an Arms Race: Responding to China’s Possible Nuclear Build-Up
by John Whitehead — Satellite images have revealed evidence that China may be increasing its nuclear weapons. Any increase in these...
Aug 11, 20213 min read
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