“Mendicants, what’s with that colossal racket?” ~ The Buddha (Cātumasutta) Pope Julius II died in February 1513. Called the Warrior Pope, he waged a series of wars to unite the Papal States
Editorial Note: This article, originally published in TomDispatch, examines humanity’s survival in the nuclear weapons era and the persistent risks posed by state policies. If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history
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What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to
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The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
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What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is
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The Pitfalls of Unrestrained Capitalism: Climate Disaster, Financial Collapse, and Military Conflict
The following is excerpted from David Barsamian’s recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new
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Cuba, a country of 11 million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the United States government for over six decades. Despite this embargo, Cuba’s people have been able to transcend
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