Ex-Child Soldiers Released From Nepalese Detention Camp
DUDHAULI, Nepal — Scores of former child soldiers, many in tears, boarded buses Thursday for home, leaving a jungle detention camp where they ha...
DUDHAULI, Nepal — Scores of former child soldiers, many in tears, boarded buses Thursday for home, leaving a jungle detention camp where they ha...
AFP | Lynne O'Donnell | Posted 01.07.2010 | World
Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone, according to an Afg...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 01.07.2010 | World
Friends and officials in Goma are reporting that the Nyamulagira volcano is still erupting and that the water supplies and air are contaminated with soot.
Posted 01.04.2010 | Living
Bob, a veteran of the Iraq War, explains the toll his experience with PTSD has taken on his life. Hear more of Bob's story - and learn more about PTSD - at This Emotional Life.
thehill.com | Posted 01.02.2010 | World
President Barack Obama met a key domestic goal by getting healthcare reform passed in the Senate by Christmas, but reaching the point where U.S. troop...
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 01.01.2010 | Politics
It's not going to happen here in the United States -- peace -- not in this coming year, not in my lifetime, or in many lifetimes.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 12.31.2009 | World
The continued bombardments of people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Pakistan and Yemen are not giving us the peace and security we crave. In fact, the result is to the contrary.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 12.30.2009 | Living
As 2010 begins, I am plunged into a fresh gloom. Wouldn't it be nice if -- like the Christmas Armistice of 1914 -- the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq simply stopped. A truce that lasted a day, that wouldn't rock the world.
David Kroodsma | Posted 12.29.2009 | Green
At the Brandenburg gate, which once sat in "no-man's land" between East and West Berlin, I wondered if, 20 years from now, abandoned coal power plants will be nothing more than museums.
Vanity Fair | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics
A decade ago, America was flush and at peace. Then came the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the retaliatory invasion of Afghanistan, and the controversial ...
Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics
We cannot get away from the romanticism of war -- indeed, we romanticize it every day, even as we curse the notion. And this war is epic, to be sure. Think back to the first act in this play.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.17.2009 | World
There are three principles governing President Obama's foreign policy outlook: holy wars are always unjust, just wars exist, and peace is an ultimate goal.
Craig Barnes | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
After winning his third Silver Star, my friend Burt disintegrated. War and destruction had taken the innards out of the man. Are these "childish evasions"?
Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics
In December of 1906, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he made these remarks to Congress in that same month.
The Guardian | Posted 12.11.2009 | World
Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to p...
Sunil Adam | Posted 12.15.2009 | World
The "just war" theory essentially seeks to reconcile Jesus Christ's turn-the-other-cheek principle with the secular need of nations to wage war.
Randall Amster | Posted 12.11.2009 | World
Almost 45 years ago to the day, Martin Luther King gave his Nobel acceptance speech, and flatly contradicted Obama's reasoning and conclusion that war is a necessary practice.
Norman Solomon | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
From President Obama, we hear that peace is the ultimate goal. But "peace" is a fixture on a strategic horizon that keeps moving as the military keeps marching.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.08.2009 | Entertainment
So far, Hollywood's attempts at making movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been failures, usually critically but always financially.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
For the last several years, our Armed Forces have been plagued by a lack of what is known as dwell time -- the amount of time Soldiers have at home with their families between deployments.
Will Marshall | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
President Obama now has a difficult sales job to perform. In essence, his message will be: we need to get in deeper to get out of Afghanistan sooner. He's right.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
Both military and civilian leaders need to revisit their management and cooperation efforts, and better define their "jobs" if any progress is to be made.
Norman Solomon | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
An underlying conceit of the new spin about benchmarks and timetables for Afghanistan is the notion that pivotal events there can be choreographed from Washington.
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
The dream of Obama is now dead. He has turned out to be, as I had begun to fear a few months back, really just like the others that came before him.
David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media
Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.
AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 01.07.2010 | Impact