Portside

I mourn mostly for those we have killed — and I mourn for those we haven't killed yet, but will in the days ahead.

Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the US government is brokering a $2 billion arms sale to Rodrigo Duterte’s repressive regime. The sale would only pour further fuel on an already dire human rights catastrophe.

When it comes to the Pentagon and the CEOs running a large part of the arms industry, examples abound of them asking what they can do to help themselves. Continuing to prioritize the U.S. military will further weaken the USA public health system.

...we will continue to...ensure that the story of Abu Ghraib won’t be defined by what is in those photographs, but instead what was done about it.

Quick and widespread testing and quarantine will help tackle the spread of COVID-19, not ultra-nationalism or hyper-capitalism.

The United States must abandon Cold War-era foreign policies and accept that Cuba is a sovereign nation free to define its political future— even if that means continuing socialism.

Withdrawing even some of the U.S. troops, planes, drones and bombers from Afghanistan will reduce the killing.

To the north, the Barents Sea, an offshoot of the Arctic Ocean, bounds them both. This remote region -- approximately 800 miles from Oslo and 900 miles from Moscow -- has, in recent years, become a vortex of economic and military activity.

Yet there’s one peculiar effort toward fake equality that must be vehemently opposed by feminists of all genders . . . drafting women – or anyone – into the US military.

...one can blame the lack of an antiwar movement in part for the failure to stop the war sooner, the price Afghanis and Americans have paid for this failure, and the ceding of credit for US withdrawal to President Trump.