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Ripples from Gaza: The Threat of a Wider Middle East War
by John Whitehead — The Gaza War has taken a terrible human toll within Israel and Palestine while also threatening to escalate into a...
Jan 18, 20244 min read


Overlooked Conflicts: Ongoing Violence at the End of 2023
by John Whitehead — Although the Ukraine-Russia war and the Gaza war have dominated the news, other countries have been suffering violent...
Dec 28, 20234 min read


World Out of Balance: Reflections on Selective Concern about Violent Conflicts
by John Whitehead — I have periodically written about violent conflicts that are generally overlooked in the United States. In 2023, I...
Dec 21, 20233 min read


“They Destroyed Everything That Had Kept Me Here”: The Rising Violence in the West Bank
by John Whitehead — While world attention has understandably been focused over the past month on the Israel-Hamas violence centered...
Nov 20, 20233 min read


People in Need of a Safe Haven: The Struggle to Help Afghan Refugees
by John Whitehead — The Afghan people are suffering today from both the Taliban’s repressive rule and international economic penalties...
Oct 31, 20233 min read


Israel and Palestine: An Urgent Need to Rehumanize
by Sophie Trist — Hamas’s recent attack on Israel, which left over a thousand unarmed civilians dead, is unquestionably a heinous,...
Oct 20, 20236 min read


A War That No One Will Win: The Violence in Israel and Palestine
By John Whitehead — The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has erupted into a terrible new wave of violence. To date, thousands of people,...
Oct 13, 20233 min read


Lifting a Terrible Burden: The Need to End Sanctions on Afghanistan
by John Whitehead — More than two years after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the Afghan people’s situation remains dire. The...
Sep 28, 20233 min read


The Niger Crisis: A Coup That Could Turn Into a War
by John Whitehead — Niger was thrown into a crisis this summer when the country’s military overthrew its democratically elected president...
Sep 16, 20233 min read


The Massacre at No Gun Ri: Korea’s Little-known, Seldom-acknowledged Mỹ Lai
by Samuel B. Parker — As war ravaged the Korean peninsula in the waning days of July and the early days of August 1950, an event —...
Aug 23, 20235 min read


A Nightmare for Humanity: The Terrifying Story of Oppenheimer
by John Whitehead — The life and career of J. Robert Oppenheimer was tailor-made for dramatization. A brilliant theoretical physicist who...
Aug 13, 20233 min read


A Thousand Paper Cranes
by Aimee Murphy — Today, my friend Sarah is going to do a silent demonstration of folding a paper crane, in honor of all those lost at...
Aug 13, 20233 min read


Biden’s Reversal on Cluster Bombs is Illegal and Inhumane
by Samuel B. Parker — On Friday, July 7th, as the war in Ukraine neared its 500th day, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that the...
Jul 24, 20233 min read


The Danger of Russian Instability: The Wagner Group Uprising and Its Significance
by John Whitehead — The brief uprising in Russia by members of the Wagner Group private security force this past weekend was a warning....
Jun 27, 20233 min read


Overlooked Conflicts: Sudan on the Brink
by John Whitehead — Although the war between Ukraine and Russia has dominated the news, other countries have been suffering through their...
Jun 21, 20235 min read


The Extreme Danger Posed by Military Artificial Intelligence
by Joseph Buonanno — What if there was a military AI system so powerful that it could read every detail of a battlefield, knew the entire...
Jun 14, 20234 min read


A Mission That Has Gone On for Too Long: The US Military Presence in Syria
by John Whitehead — A US contractor was killed by a drone attack in northeastern Syria earlier this spring. The drone, which US officials...
May 12, 20233 min read


Stepping Back from the Brink: In Support of H. Res. 77
by Sean Wild — Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon introduced H. Res. 77 into the...
Apr 21, 20233 min read


Overlooked Conflicts: Anarchy and Agony in Haiti
by John Whitehead — Although the war between Ukraine and Russia has dominated the news, other countries have been suffering through their...
Apr 15, 20235 min read


A Look at Ron DeSantis’s Time at Guantanamo Bay
by Sean Wild — As he rises onto the national stage, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to be a polarizing political figure. With the...
Apr 11, 20234 min read
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