We hope 2020 is when the American public finally looks at the fateful choice between war and peace with 20/20 vision, and we will start severely punishing Trump and every other U.S. politician who opts for threats over diplomacy, war over peace.
Just weeks before the Trump Administration placed sanctions on the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, he was invited to meet with the President at the White House.
This new volume surveys the changes in U.S. foreign policy as successive governments have downplayed diplomacy. The book is based on first-hand reporting by a prize-winning journalist of conversations with diplomats and others.
The summit was a significant step forward in avoiding war and achieving peace on the Korean peninsula. The summit gives an imprimatur to inter-Korean efforts to advance slow-motion reunification.
Maybe Trump really thinks sanctions will produce a "better" Iran deal. More likely, they're designed to justify conflict - an unwinnable conflict that will destabilize the Middle East and the world’s economy, and pour more of this country’s resources into yet another quagmire.
The hard-right national security adviser successfully tanked the Iran deal. His next target? The North Korea talks.
Russia isn't as strong as we think, but they do have nukes – which is why beating the war drum is a mistake
Trump's wars are now all over the map. The peace movement can fight back by joining already thriving intersectional campaigns.
The inside story of a planned, and aborted, Israeli attack on the nuclear installations of Iran.
Scholars are producing increasingly detailed accounts of how the U.S. government utilized artists and culture in the Cold War anti-Communist crusade. According to former diplomat John H. Brown, this new study, by Greg Barnhisel, shows that an important factor in making modernism work for U.S. Cold War interests involved "defanging modernism of its radicalism and turning it into an international vehicle for whitebread all-American convictions."
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